Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Pirates Closer Charged With Soliciting 13-Year-Old Girl
Pirates closer Felipe Vasquez is facing charges for an alleged sexual relationship with an underage girl. Florida authorities say the 29-year-old Vasquez sent a video of him performing a sex act to th...
Sep 17, 2019
Gun-Hoarding Teen Arrested After Saying She Wanted To “Shoot 400 People For Fun”
An Oklahoma teen has been arrested after telling a coworker she wanted to “shoot 400 people for fun”. Police say 18-year-old Alexis Wilson made the threatening comment to a coworker at the...
Sep 17, 2019
Florida Man Who Killed Shark In Viral Video Sentenced To Jail Time
A Florida man seen laughing as he kills a shark in a viral video has been sentenced to 10 days behind bars on animal cruelty charges. In the 2017 video, Robert Benac is seen dragging a shark behind hi...
Sep 17, 2019
General Mills Flour Recall
Before you start getting into the swing of holiday baking, check the flour in your pantry. General Mills has issued a recall of some five-pound bags of flour over E. coli contamination. While there ha...
Sep 17, 2019
Pioneering Journalist Cokie Roberts Dies at 75
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, whose storied career pioneered NPR and raised the intellectual standard covering Washington for PBS and ABC, has died at 75, losing her battle to breast cancer. As a ...
Sep 17, 2019
Mother and Four Children Found Dead
A Florida mother and her four children missing for 6 weeks have been found dead 150 miles in southeast Georgia. Casei Jones and her children, ranging in age from one to ten, were reported missing by h...
Sep 17, 2019
Teens Are Frightened by Climate Change
Being a teenager is hard enough, but add climate change to their list of fears and it can become an even more complicated phase of life. According to a new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation pol...
Sep 17, 2019
Alex Trebek To Undergo More Chemotherapy
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is going through another round of chemotherapy to treat stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Trebek made the announcement on Tuesday’s Good Morning America. Trebek said his doct...
Sep 17, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s Accusers Won’t Be Paid Legal Damages
A Florida judge has ruled that a group of women who claim they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein are not entitled to be paid damages. The women were suing over a non-prosecution agreement Epstei...
Sep 16, 2019
Whole Foods Cuts Health Benefits For Part-Time Workers
Popular grocery chain Whole Foods is cutting health care benefits for nearly 2,000 of its employees. According to Business Insider, the Amazon-owned chain will require employees to work a minimum of 3...
Sep 13, 2019
