Author Archives: Julia Bradley
PPS schools selected for two national programs
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria High School, Manual and Richwoods High Schools, have been chosen to be part of a group of 30 schools nationally to benefit from a $13 million grant from the Bill and and Melinda...
Dec 10, 2019 Mike Sabol/1470-100.3 WMBD
Winning Lotto ticket sold in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- If you bought a Lucky Day Lotto ticket for Monday's midday drawing, check your numbers. A $400,000 winning ticket was sold in Peoria at the Marathon gas station, located in the 3700 bl...
Dec 10, 2019 A sign displays the estimated Mega Millions jackpot at a convenience store in Chicago, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. Friday's jackpot has soared to $1 billion, the second-largest prize in U. S. lottery history. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Apartment fire displaces Peoria family
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters were called out just before 9 a.m. Monday to the 3400 block of W Sunburst Lane on report of an apartment fire. Crews arrived to find smoke coming from the roof of t...
Dec 10, 2019
Country-Bluegrass star Alison Krauss to perform in Peoria next spring
PEORIA, Ill. -- County-Bluegrass singer and musician Alison Krauss will make a stop in Peoria next spring. The Peoria Civic Center announced Monday morning that Krauss will perform there on on Sunday,...
Dec 09, 2019 Alison Krauss performs at Loretta Lynn's 87th Birthday Tribute at Bridgestone Arena on Monday, April 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Al Wagner/Invision/AP)
Country star Travis Tritt to perform in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Civic Center announced Monday morning that County music star Travis Tritt is scheduled to perform in the Civic Center Theater on Thursday, May 14. Travis Tritt has been dubb...
Dec 09, 2019 Travis Tritt performs at Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov, 30, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Judiciary hearing sets stage for impeachment charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing ahead with articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee convenes Monday to formally receive the investigative findings against President Donald Trump as the White H...
Dec 09, 2019 Constitutional law experts, from left, Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman, Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan, University of North Carolina Law School professor Michael Gerhardt and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, are sworn in to testify during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Caroll Spinney, voice of Sesame Street's Big Bird, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ironically the day "Sesame Street" received its Kennedy Center Honor, the man who gave voice to two of the most popular characters on the children's TV series has died. The Sesame W...
Dec 09, 2019 Caroll Spinney with 'Big Bird' during Florida Supercon at the Broward County Convention Center on Friday, July 13, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP).
Car crashes into East Peoria OSF Urgo location
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A vehicle crashed Sunday morning into the East Peoria OSF Urgo location, at 133 Spinder Drive in the Levee District. East Peoria Police said a 22-year-old woman, who was feeling i...
Dec 09, 2019
Ceremony commemorates 78th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - Survivors and members of the public are expected to gather in Pearl Harbor to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed the Hawaii naval base 78 years ago and launc...
Dec 07, 2019 The USS Arizona Memorial can be seen from the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, in Honolulu. A U.S. sailor shot and wounded several civilian Department of Defense employees at the Pearl Harbor shipyard Wednesday before taking their own life, the military said. The shipyard is across the harbor from the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
Naval base shooter investigated for possible terrorism links
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - US officials investigating the deadly attack by a Saudi aviation student at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida are trying to determine whether it was motivated by terror...
Dec 07, 2019 AP Photo/Melissa Nelson
