Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
NJ Approves Bill Allowing Medically Assisted Suicide
New Jersey’s governor will sign a bill allowing terminally ill patients access to life-ending medication. New Jersey residents given six months or less to live by their doctor would have the rig...
Mar 26, 2019
Pediatricians Call For Soda Taxes To Curb Children’s Love Of Sugary Drinks
American children drink a lot of soda and it’s leading to all kinds of health issues say pediatricians, who are calling on lawmakers to institute new taxes to help kids kick the habit. The Ameri...
Mar 26, 2019
NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk
This is why you should always double check what you’ve packed before a big trip. Especially when you can’t just turn the car around. Or in this case, the space shuttle. NASA needed to canc...
Mar 26, 2019
Cop Accused of Serving Homeless Man a Poop Sandwich Gets His Job Back
A San Antonio cop who was fired for giving a poop sandwich to a homeless man is getting his job back. Officer Matthew Luckhurst on Monday won an appeal by calling upon a rule that requires officers to...
Mar 26, 2019
Florida Man Electrocuted While Trying to Help a Pigeon
A Florida man was fatally electrocuted over the weekend when he tried to get a pigeon off a power line. West Palm Beach resident Elian Garcia-Rivera, 36, was found dead Saturday between a pigeon coup ...
Mar 26, 2019
World’s Fastest-Shrinking Glacier is Growing Again
In a surprising development, one of the world’s fastest shrinking glaciers has started to grow again. In 2012, scientists discovered Greenland’s Jakobshayn glacier was receding at a rate o...
Mar 26, 2019
Colorado Reports Increase in Pot-Related ER Visits
It was bound to happen — as more and more states move closer to legalizing recreational marijuana, a report has been released that connects legalization with an uptick in pot-related emergency r...
Mar 26, 2019
Former NFL Ref Speaks
With rare exception, league rules prevent NFL referees from talking to the media – that’s no longer the case for newly retired official Walt Coleman. The 67-year-old ended his 30-year care...
Mar 25, 2019
Former MLB Writer, Noble, dead at 70
“Damn it!” That’s how former MLB.com writer Marty Noble began a recently published article – one about Hall of Famer Tom Seaver. It was a fitting first line for many of his pee...
Mar 25, 2019
Kraft Spotted with Goodell at League Meeting
While others were seen ‘making the rounds’ at the annual NFL league meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft appeared to be laying low. Kraft declined to visit ...
Mar 25, 2019
