Author Archives: Julia Bradley
Arrest made in Peoria armed robbery
PEORIA, Ill. -- Police have arrested a suspect in connection with an apparent armed robbery that happened early Saturday morning in Peoria. Damarious Matthews, 20, was taken into custody and taken to ...
Julia Bradley Jan 10, 2022 Damarious Matthews (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Update: Several local schools return to remote learning
MINONK, Ill. -- Students at Fieldcrest CUSD #6 will learn from home this week, due to COVID related concerns. The district said on Facebook Sunday that they will share more information on logistics on...
Julia Bradley Jan 10, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria street crews clear residential streets of slippery ice
UPDATE: Sunday, January 9, 8:44 a.m. PEORIA, Ill -- Here's the Sunday update from Peoria Public Works Director and city snow fighting team lead Sie Maroon; "We have moved into the residential street r...
Julia Bradley Jan 08, 2022 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
PCCHD begins weekend vaccinations
PEORIA, Ill. -- Starting Saturday, Jan. 8, the Peoria City/County Health Department will be open on Saturdays and Sundays for COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots. Residents 5 years old and up can rece...
Julia Bradley Jan 08, 2022 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden calls Colorado's most destructive wildfire 'code red' climate warning
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, visiting the scene of Colorado's most destructive wildfire on record, said on Friday the rare winter blaze marked the latest "code red" reminder ...
Julia Bradley Jan 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Omicron surge pushes U.S. COVID hospitalizations toward record high
NEW YORK (Reuters) - COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are poised to hit a new high as early as Friday, according to a Reuters tally, surpassing the record set in January of last year as ...
Julia Bradley Jan 08, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Medical staff treat a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S., January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Sidney Poitier, first Black actor to win best actor Academy Award, dies at 94
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in "Lilies of the Field," and inspired a generation during the c...
Julia Bradley Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Sidney Poitier arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
Winter storm in eastern U.S. shuts schools, cancels flights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A winter storm dumped more than a half a foot of snow in parts of the eastern United States on Friday, forcing schools and federal government offices to close and snarling air t...
Julia Bradley Jan 07, 2022 Times Square Alliance workers clear snow in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
U.S. employment growth misses expectations; unemployment rate falls to 3.9%
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employment increased less than expected in December amid worker shortages and job gains could remain moderate in the near term as spiraling COVID-19 infections disrupt econ...
Julia Bradley Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman waits for a bus next to a "Now Hiring" sign from the United States Postal Service in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo/File Photo
Supreme Court considers whether to halt Biden vaccine mandates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday is set to consider requests by Republican state officials and business groups to block President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for employers with ...
Julia Bradley Jan 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, U.S., February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo