Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
AP SOURCE: Bears release embattled kicker Cody Parkey
By ANDREW SELIGMAN, AP Sports Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - The Chicago Bears signed kicker Cody Parkey to a four-year contract in March hoping he would give them the consistency they have lacked ev...
Feb 23, 2019
Florida Tourism Reaches an All-Time High
Florida isn’t just number one in producing weird news stories; tourism officials say it leads the country in out-of-state visitors, too. More than 126 million tourists visited Florida in 2018, a...
Feb 22, 2019
Wood Plank Spears Uber Driver’s Windshield
Mahboob Lodhi was just finishing up his shift driving for Uber when when a plank penetrated his windshield from an elevated subway. “Boom. I’m just shocked,” said Lodhi. “IR...
Feb 22, 2019
Study Reveals Cheese Is Good for Your Health
The type of cheese that you choose to consume does not matter, as long as you consume two servings a day according to a study involving over 130,000 people. Your heart can benefit from whole dairy foo...
Feb 22, 2019
Run for the Hills! Giant ‘Nightmare Bee’ Not Extinct After All
Four times the size of an average honeybee, it’s not difficult to understand how the black Giant Bee earned the nickname “the nightmare bee.” The mammoth insect has been thought to b...
Feb 22, 2019
‘Empire’ producers cut Smollett from season’s last episodes
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Actor Jussie Smollett’s character on “Empire” will be removed from the final two episodes of this season in the wake of his arrest on c...
Feb 22, 2019
Chicago’s vast camera network helped Smollett investigation
By TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Police tapped into Chicago’s vast network of surveillance cameras - and even some homeowners’ doorbell cameras - to track down two brothers...
Feb 22, 2019
Gang database killed … or is it?
https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/353/2019/02/22085514/Bill-Gang-Database.mp3 By Bill Cameron , WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) The Cook County Board has voted to kill the controversial gang database. Sheriff To...
Feb 22, 2019
Samsung Has A Folding Phone, But It Will Cost You
Hate having to lug around both a tablet and a phone that is nearly as large as one? That may no longer be a problem this spring thanks to Samsung. The smartphone giant wants to shake up the industry t...
Feb 21, 2019
‘Empire’ actor goes from victim to accused felon in 3 weeks
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett turned himself in early Thursday to face accusations that he filed a police report when he told authorities he...
Feb 21, 2019
