Category Archives: Recently On WLS-AM

Coke in talks for cannabis-infused drinks
On Monday morning, Canadian news service BNN Bloomberg reported that Coke is talking with cannabis producer Aurora Cannabis about developing health-focused beverages that will ease inflammation, pain ...
Cumulus Media Sep 17, 2018

Target is set to hire a lot of people for the holidays
More good news for those looking looking for some extra cash for the holidays. Target is about to go on a hiring spree. The retailer plans to hire about 120,000 seasonal workers for the holidays, up 2...
Cumulus Media Sep 14, 2018

Florence and the coastal dilemma: How long will it hover?
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Oddly, the closer Hurricane Florence gets to land the murkier its future gets. Usually when a storm approaches the coast, forecasters can tell w...
Cumulus Media Sep 12, 2018

GM recall involves rear brake problem
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) General Motors is recalling over 240,000 vehicles, in the U.s. and Canada, to fix a rear brake problem. The recall covers GMC Terrain, Buick Lacrosse and ...
Cumulus Media Sep 12, 2018

US marks 9/11 with somber tributes, new monument to victims
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Americans were commemorating 9/11 with somber tributes, volunteer projects and a new monument to victims Tuesday, after a year when two attac...
Cumulus Media Sep 11, 2018

Georgia school to start paddling students as discipline
A charter school in Georgia is bringing back an old-fashioned form of discipline that has many parents up in arms. The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics, which teaches children in Kinderg...
Cumulus Media Sep 11, 2018

John Lennon celebrated with release of commemorative stamp
By Stephen R Groves, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - John Lennon’s iconic moptop, round glasses and grin will now adorn a U.S. stamp. Yoko Ono, and she and Lennon’s son, Sean Lennon, were...
Cumulus Media Sep 07, 2018

Burt Reynolds, “Smokey and the Bandit” star, dead at 82
[van id=”entertainment/2018/09/06/actor-burt-reynolds-obit-elam-pkg-vpx.cnn”] By David Ariosto Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century...
Cumulus Media Sep 06, 2018

Senate bill would allow medical marijuana for veterans
A new Senate bill would approve the use of medial marijuana for military veterans. The Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act would allow VA doctors to prescribe medical cannabis in states where i...
Cumulus Media Sep 06, 2018

Anti-violence demonstrators aiming to shut down part of Kennedy near O’Hare
CHICAGO (ABC 7) — An anti-violence demonstration scheduled for Monday plans to shut down a part of the Kennedy Expressway aiming to disrupt traffic to O’Hare International Airport. The Coa...
Cumulus Media Sep 03, 2018






