Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Mom Leaves Kids in Locked Car while getting an Illegal Manicure
One Maryland woman likely won’t be nominated for Mother of the Year after she reportedly left her children inside a locked car while she received an illegal manicure. Baltimore resident Keontae ...
May 16, 2020
Barack Obama to Deliver All-Encompassing HS Commencement Address
One positive aspect of this year’s virtual graduation ceremonies is many schools and universities have been able to land bigger names for their commencement addresses because the stars don’...
May 16, 2020
Coroner Releases Kobe Bryant Autopsy Results
NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi and seven other people died of blunt force trauma when the helicopter they were in slammed into a hillside in January. That’s according to the results o...
May 16, 2020
5 Kids Found Boxed up in Back of Pickup
Three Sacramento residents are behind bars after police found that a box in the back of their pickup contained five children. The discovery was made in Needles, California earlier this week after a mo...
May 16, 2020
Struggling JC Penney Files for Bankruptcy
Blaming the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact, struggling department store J.C. Penney on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In making the announcement, executives with the ...
May 16, 2020
Austin, Tulsa Selected as Finalists for New Tesla Plant
Some much-need economic relief in on the way for residents of either Austin, Texas or Tulsa, Oklahoma. The two cities have been selected as finalists for the location of Tesla’s new automotive p...
May 16, 2020
CDC Predicts 100K COVID-19 Deaths by June 1
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed it expects the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. to exceed 100,000 by June 1st. The unsettling prediction, announced Friday, is based on data ...
May 16, 2020
CA-based company claims COVID ‘cure’
A coronavirus antibody breakthrough is expected to be announced today. California-based Sorrento Therapeutics says it has discovered an antibody that not only protects humans from cornavirus, but also...
May 15, 2020
China’s COVID count might be higher than 640,000
According to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker, China still reports just over 84,000 cases. However, that number may be higher 640,000, according to leaked data from China’s mili...
May 15, 2020
Yes, Mitch, there was a ‘playbook’
Yes, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Obama administration did leave a ‘playbook’ in the event of a pandemic. PBS reports that, soon after the Senate Majority Leader made the comments, former mem...
May 15, 2020
