Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Seven Amazon Warehouse Workers Have Died Of Coronavirus So Far
At least seven Amazon warehouse workers have died during the coronavirus pandemic – and the company is being tight-lipped about how many total workers have been infected. Two more deaths were co...
May 15, 2020
Barack Obama Says Lack Of Sports Is ‘Driving Me Nuts’
Going crazy from a lack of sports? You’re in good company. Former President Barack Obama recently told some ex-staffers that not having sports on TV was “driving me nuts” according t...
May 15, 2020
AAA Predicts ‘Record Low’ Memorial Day Travel
Memorial Day Weekend is typically one of the busiest travel periods of the year – but not in 2020. On Thursday, AAA predicted ‘record low’ travel for the holiday weekend due to the c...
May 15, 2020
Arizona Homeowner Shoots Naked Burglar
An Arizona homeowner shot and killed a naked intruder who threatened one of his children. The man says the family dog alerted them that something was up. He grabbed a shotgun and found the naked man i...
May 15, 2020
Hospital Ship USNS Mercy to Leave Port of Los Angeles
In a sign that the coronavirus pandemic has eased up in Los Angeles, the U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy is preparing to leave the Port of L.A. and head back to San Diego, according to Navy officials. T...
May 15, 2020
NY Stock Exchange Set to Reopen after Memorial Day
The New York Stock Exchange has been scheduled to reopen on May 26th — but only to traders who don’t use public transportation to get there. The reopening, revealed Thursday by NYSE Presid...
May 15, 2020
Researchers Developing Face Mask That Lights up When Coronavirus is Detected
Researchers at Harvard and M.I.T. have spent the last six years working on sensors placed inside masks to detect viruses like Ebola and Zika. Now they’re working on tweaking the sensors to detec...
May 14, 2020
FL Officer Fired over Parkland Shooting Response Given Job Back with Full Pay
The Florida sheriff’s sergeant who was fired for hiding behind a car during the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting is getting his job back with full pay and even back pay. B...
May 14, 2020
Black Professor with NY Plates in Vermont Told ‘To Leave’ State
A black professor driving through Vermont with his 11-year-old son on Friday thought two unknown vehicles approaching and flagging him down might need some help. Instead, he was told that he “wa...
May 14, 2020
Melissa Etheridge Loses 21-Year-Old Son to Opioid Overdose
Melissa Etheridge shared on Twitter that she joins “the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction”, while revealing that she lost her 21-year-old son, ...
May 14, 2020
