Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Closed Bathrooms Leave NJ Parks Overflowing with Urine, Feces
The decision to open New Jersey parks, but to leave the bathrooms closed to avoid spreading the coronavirus, has left state officials with a mess to clean up. The head of the New Jersey State Police s...
May 12, 2020
Here’s How Long Your Fresh Produce Will Last
If you tend to buy bananas only to have them turn to mush, or open a bag of potatoes and find they’re all growing eyes, then this is for you. Readers Digest has put together a handy guide listin...
May 12, 2020
Man Arrested 3 Times In Just 12 Hours
Dijon Landrum had quite the day late last month, getting himself arrested three times in just a 12 hour period. The 24-year-old from California kicked off his crime spree by allegedly breaking into a ...
May 12, 2020
NBC News Apologizes For ‘Inaccurately’ Quoting AG Barr
If you had only watched Meet the Press on Sunday, you would have gotten a very different impression of what William Barr had to say about the Justice Department’s decision to drop its case again...
May 12, 2020
Man Who Wanted Sword Fight With Ex-Wife Deemed ‘Not Crazy’
Unhappy with his child custody arrangement, David Ostrom asked the court in Iowa if he could take on his ex-wife in a sword fight. That request back in January led to a judge suspending his visitation...
May 12, 2020
Elon Musk Reopens Tesla Factory Despite Stay At Home Order, Says Arrest Me
Despite the state’s shelter-in-place order that has kept the facility closed since March 23rd, Elon Musk turned the lights back on at the Tesla factory in Northern California. “Tesla is re...
May 12, 2020
Boston Police Capture Runaway Peacock By Playing Mating Call Over The Phone
After a peacock ran away from the Franklin Park Zoo, a quick-thinking cop knew exactly what to do. According to the Boston Globe , a patrol working in the Roxbury area on Monday encountered “an ...
May 12, 2020
Space Agency: Human Urine Could Help Make Concrete on Moon
The European Space Agency is reporting that human urine could help make concrete on the moon. Urea, which is the main organic ingredient found in urine, would help make concrete more malleable before ...
May 12, 2020
Reopening US Economy Too Soon Could Cause ‘Double-Dip’ Recession, Needless Deaths
Well here’s a case for not re-opening the US economy too soon: experts believe it could make matters worse on several fronts. Economists originally predicted a short V or longer U shaped recover...
May 12, 2020
U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Approaches 80,000
The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. is approaching 80,000 with the total number of cases surpassing 1.3 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. Those milestones are reached as many parts of...
May 11, 2020
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