Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Peoria Flag & Decorating closing after 70 years in business
PEORIA, Ill. - After 70 years in business, the Blasek family, owners of Peoria Flag and Decorating, have announced they are closing the store later this month. A Facebook post says the building has al...
Sep 09, 2025 Peoria Flag & Decorating has announced after 70 years in business, their store is closing. (Peoria Flag & Decorating Facebook page)
Israel launches attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, blasts heard in Doha
DOHA (Reuters) - Israel launched an attack on the leadership of Hamas in Qatar on Tuesday, expanding its military actions that have ranged across the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where t...
Sep 09, 2025 Smoke rises after several blasts were heard in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Ford to recall nearly 1.5 million vehicles in US over faulty rear-view camera, NHTSA says
(Reuters) - Ford is recalling about 1.5 million vehicles in the United States due to a rear-view camera issue causing inverted, distorted, or blank image, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administr...
Sep 09, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A Ford logo is seen on the Ford Motor World headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S., March 12, 2025. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
Teen arrested for shooting a 12-year-old in Peoria in June
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police have arrested a teenager for a shooting in June that left a 12-year-old boy seriously injured. On the night of June 4th, police responded to reports of someone being shot ...
Sep 09, 2025 MWC-PPD
Trump administration says it launches ICE crackdown in Illinois
CHICAGO (Reuters) - After weeks of vowing to deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, the Trump administration said on Monday it had launched a deportation crackdown in Illinois targeti...
Sep 09, 2025 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle is parked outside the Cook County Courthouse, where Fox News was doing a ride-along on their operations in Chicago, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence and immigration enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security, in Chicago, U.S., September 8, 2025. REUTERS/Octavio Jones
Trump fails to overturn E. Jean Carroll's $83 million verdict
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll ...
Sep 08, 2025 A demonstrator holds up a sign behind writer E. Jean Carroll as she leaves the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where former U.S. President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her, who accused Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 6, 2024. REUTERS/Adam Gray/File Photo
Fire caused $60,000 damage to a Peoria home Sunday
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to reports of a residential fire Sunday afternoon on W. St. James Street. Fire Battalion Chief Rick Waldron said crews arrived just before 3 p.m., finding ...
Sep 08, 2025 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'Best I walk alone:' Alleged Trump would-be assassin prepares to defend himself at trial
FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) -The man accused of attempting to kill President Donald Trump last year at his Florida golf course goes on trial beginning on Monday and, facing the prospect of life in ...
Sep 08, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Ryan W. Routh poses in a jail booking photograph in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. February 10, 2010. Guilford County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Chicago protesters defiant in face of Trump's deportation threats
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Several thousand demonstrators marched past Trump Tower as the sun began to set in downtown Chicago on Saturday, protesting U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to flood the city w...
Sep 08, 2025 A Mexican-American flag flies as a parade participant on horseback flies a city of Chicago flag while Chicago's Mexican community proceeds with a Mexican Independence Day parade after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. September 6, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
Palestinian gunmen kill six at Jerusalem bus stop
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as "a terrorist attack," one of the deadlies...
Sep 08, 2025 Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir looks on at the scene where a suspected shooting attack took place at the outskirts of Jerusalem, September 8, 2025 REUTERS/Ammar Awad
