Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Ford Recalls Trucks
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News (DETROIT) The top-selling truck is being recalled because of a possible door problem. Ford is recalling some 1.3 million 2015 to 2017 F-150 and 2017 Super Duty vehi...
Oct 18, 2017
Chicago’s Amazon bid focuses on workforce and transportation
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago has officially thrown its hat in the ring with a bid for Amazon’s massive second headquarters, adding its pitch to the stiff competition from cities that are talking about...
Oct 18, 2017
Ex-Chicago detective refuses to answer murder case questionsÂ
CHICAGO (AP) - A former Chicago police detective who a judge ordered to testify in a decades-old homicide investigation is refusing to answer questions. The case involves allegations Reynaldo Guevara ...
Oct 18, 2017
Ryan backs Trump on ending health insurance subsidies
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - House Speaker Paul Ryan says he does not want to “shovel more money at a failing program” to replace federal subsidies that President Donald Trump is eliminating that ...
Oct 18, 2017
Former Chicago detective ordered to testify in murder case
CHICAGO (AP) - A former Chicago police detective is set to return to court after a judge ordered him to testify about allegations he beat two men into confessing to a 1998 double murder they say they ...
Oct 18, 2017
Illinois sees teen traffic deaths drop by half in decade
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is crediting a graduated driver’s license law with a 51 percent drop in teenage-driver deaths in the past decade. The Democrat ru...
Oct 18, 2017
Two of the aviation cops who dragged doctor off United flight fired
(CHICAGO) Two of the aviation police officers involved in a passenger-dragging incident at O'Hare International Airport have been fired, according to a quarterly report from the city's inspector gener...
Oct 17, 2017
Teachers Union President Karen Lewis suffers stroke
By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis is hospitalized after suffering a stroke last week. Lewis issued a statement this morning saying "I suffered a sligh...
Oct 17, 2017
Driver detained, boy critical after car crash
AURORA, Ill. (AP) - Police have detained the 31-year-old driver of a car that crashed into a suburban Chicago pond, leaving a boy in critical condition. Aurora police say the female driver is related ...
Oct 17, 2017
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to speak in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to speak at the Chicago-Kent College of Law Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will speak this afternoon about her time on the nation’s highest co...
Oct 16, 2017
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