Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Associated Press Finds Counterfeit Masks Reaching Frontline Health Workers
As if frontline workers don’t have enough to worry about while fighting the coronavirus, fake PPE has been flooding into the US. According to the Associated Press , millions of counterfeit medic...
May 13, 2020
LA County to Extend Stay-at-Home Order through Summer
Los Angeles County will “with all certainty” extend its stay-at-home order for three more months. That’s according to County Public Health Director Barara Ferrer, who made the revela...
May 13, 2020
House Package Includes $25 Billion For Postal Service
With mail volume down by 30 percent due to the coronavirus pandemic, the US Postal Service is in need of a cash infusion otherwise it could run out of money by September. On Tuesday, House Democrats p...
May 13, 2020
Joe Biden Plans To Stay Home, Taking The Campaign Virtual
With medical experts continually advising that the best course of action to prevent catching and spreading the coronavirus is to just stay home, Joe Biden will heed that warning. The presumed Democrat...
May 13, 2020
Facebook To Pay $52 Million To Moderators Exposed To Graphic Material
Facebook will pay out $52 million to the people who work to keep the platform free of graphic or disturbing material. The company employs an army of moderators who work to remove such materials –...
May 13, 2020
Paul Manafort Released From Prison Over Coronavirus Concerns
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to home confinement over coronavirus concerns. The 71-year-old Manafort was convicted in 2018 of tax evasion and other crimes...
May 13, 2020
Hyatt Laying Off 1,300 Employees
Hyatt Hotels has announced that it will be laying off 1,300 employees as part of a restructuring plan amid the coronavirus pandemic. It will also cut the pay of senior management, board members, and a...
May 12, 2020
Doctors Without Borders Sends Team to Help Navajo Nation
Doctors Without Borders is rushing aid to combat a huge surge of COVID-19 cases in the Navajo Nation, a region with some of the highest rates of infection in the country. This is the first time that t...
May 12, 2020
Steak ‘n Shake Closes 57 Restaurants for Good
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Steak ‘n Shake has made the decision to close 57 of its restaurants. “The COVID-19 pandemic had an adverse effect on our restaurant operations, thereby...
May 12, 2020
Bernie Sanders Says It’s ‘Very Unlikely’ He’ll Run for President Again
It seems that no one will be feeling “the Bern” in future U.S. presidential elections. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders told The Washington Post there’s “a very, very slim chance...
May 12, 2020
