Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Police dismiss tip Smollett, 2 brothers together in elevator
[van id=”justice/2019/02/17/jussie-smollett-attack-statement-young-vanier-nr-vpx.cnn”] By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police say they’ve dismissed a tip that ...
Feb 20, 2019
Funerals Begin for Aurora Warehouse Shooting Victims
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Visitation and the funeral will be held later today in Sheridan, Illinois for Trevor Wehner, 21, who was shot to death during the first day of his interns...
Feb 20, 2019
Sanders Campaign Raises $1 Million in 3 1/2 Hours
It looks like Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is already off to an encouraging start. Just three-and-a-half hours after announcing his candidacy on Tuesday’s Good Morning America , t...
Feb 20, 2019
Obama Center hits a snag​
By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) A federal judge is allowing the lawsuit against using part of Jackson Park for the Obama Center to proceed. Bill Cameron says it’s about a suit against cit...
Feb 19, 2019
Klobuchar Says She’s a “Tough Boss”, Defends Work Record
On Monday Sen. Amy Klobuchar was questioned at a CNN town hall about former staffers calling her “difficult, demanding and even abusive” at times. Previously as an attorney and now as a Se...
Feb 19, 2019
He Survived Two Nights in a Blizzard Only to Learn He Has Stage 4 Cancer
A man who survived two nights in the near impossible conditions of a blizzard has learned that he has stage 4 kidney cancer while recovering from frostbite. William Mendoza was driving in North Dakota...
Feb 19, 2019
Mendoza and Daley clash at Mayoral forum
https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/353/2019/02/19082730/Bill-Daley-Mendoza-Clash.mp3 By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) In the race for mayor, Bill Daley and Susana Mendoza tangled Monday night duri...
Feb 19, 2019
Sailor From Iconic V-J Day Kiss Photo Dies At 95
A sailor whose celebratory kiss at the end of World War II was captured in one of the most iconic photos in U.S. history has died at the age of 95. A LIFE magazine photographer snapped the famous phot...
Feb 18, 2019
Aurora Shooting Victim’s Final Text
Josh Pinkard was one of five people killed Friday by a gunman in Aurora, Illinois. Amid the chaos, he was able to send a text to his wife, Terra. “I love you, I’ve been shot at work,”...
Feb 18, 2019
Alaska Ready to Send Troops to US-Mexico Border
While the Governors of California and New Mexico have pulled National Guard troops from the US-Mexico border amid criticism of the White House – another state, farther north, says its troops sta...
Feb 18, 2019
