Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Hastert to Keep Pension Despite Guilty Plea
By Bill Cameron, WLS News (CHICAGO) It looks like disgraced former-House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Plano, who’s pleaded guilty to hush money charges, will get to keep his $73,000-a-year f...
Nov 05, 2015
Person of Interest in Child Shooting Released
By Nick Gale, WLS News (CHICAGO) A person of interest that was being questioned in the shooting death of a 9-year-old boy has been released by Chicago police. That person of interest walked into a pol...
Nov 05, 2015
DA: No Rape Charges for Kane
By Nick Gale, 89 WLS-AM News Blackhawk's star Patrick Kane will not face rape charges, according to the district attorney’s office of Erie County, New York. In a press release this morning, Dist...
Nov 05, 2015
Person struck by train Berwyn, halting BNSF trains
(CHICAGO) A person was struck by an equipment train Thursday morning in west suburban Berwyn, delaying trains on the BNSF line during the morning commute. The pedestrian was struck by an equipment tra...
Nov 05, 2015
WEATHER – Overcast. Quite breezy. High 72F.
Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Thursday, October 5th, 2015 Warm weather again Thursday with a change back to colder weather for Friday into the weekend. Today | Overcast. H...
Nov 05, 2015
Man charged with taking locker room photos of Oak Lawn high school girl
Raymond Van Syckle was charged with taking photos of a girl in an Oak Lawn high school locker room. | Oak Lawn police (OAK LAWN) A school employee was charged Tuesday with taking illicit photos of a g...
Nov 05, 2015
‘Person of interest’ in murder of 9-year-old turns self in to police
Tyshawn Lee | photo provided UPDATES WITH PERSON OF INTEREST IN CUSTODY (CHICAGO) A person of interest in being questioned in connection with the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old boy Monday in what poli...
Nov 05, 2015
DNA from body parts found in Garfield Park lagoon match missing Rockford child
(CHICAGO) DNA samples taken from a child's body parts discovered in a Garfield Park lagoon in September have been confirmed as a match to Kyrian Knox, a 2-year-old boy missing from Rockford. Kyrian wa...
Nov 05, 2015
Gliniewicz faced sexual harassment complaint years ago
(FOX LAKE) Fox Lake gave Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz a hero's funeral this year. But more than a decade earlier, Gliniewicz was featured prominently in a little-noticed federal sexual harassment law...
Nov 05, 2015
Parolee faces drug, weapons charges after Evanston traffic stop
Marquise C. Duerr-Starling | Evanston police (EVANSTON) A north suburban parolee is facing drug and weapons charges after officers found marijuana and a gun in a vehicle during a traffic stop Tuesday ...
Nov 05, 2015
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