Category Archives: WLS-AM 890 Local News
Police: Child porn found on man’s phone after domestic battery arrest
Ricardo G. Garcia | Winthrop Harbor police (WINTHROP HARBOR) A Wisconsin man arrested for domestic battery Sunday is in even more trouble after north suburban police found numerous videos of child por...
Jun 25, 2015
Feds: West Side drug dealer had customers lined up around the corner
Customers line up for heroin in the 3700 block of West Grenshaw.| Photo in federal complaint. (CHICAGO) James Triplett had his customers lined up around the corner in broad daylight, the feds say. Not...
Jun 25, 2015
Bronzeville nursing home resident fatally shot while running errands
Christon Barlow was one of four shot at 35th and Indiana Tuesday night. | Sam Charles/Sun-Times (CHICAGO) After he came out of a week-and-a-half long coma last December, lifelong South Shore resident ...
Jun 25, 2015
WEATHER – AM sun with clouds, PM thunderstorms. High 81F.
Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS AM Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 Ray’s Note: Quiet weather tonight and comfortable. Rapid changes underway for Wednesday into Wednesday Night. Same front that went thr...
Jun 24, 2015
Man gets 47 years for murder and sexual assault of ex-girlfriend
Adam Belmont | DuPage County sheriff’s office (WHEATON) A west suburban man was sentenced to 47 years in prison Tuesday to fatally stabbing and then sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend in Wood...
Jun 24, 2015
Former state worker sentenced to 8 years for bribery, kickback scheme
(CHICAGO) A former chief of staff to the head of Illinois' public health department was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday in a case that involved a multimillion-dollar bribery and kickback sc...
Jun 24, 2015
Weather service confirms 9 tornadoes, including EF-3 in Coal City
(COAL CITY) At least nine tornadoes touched down during Monday's round of storms in north central Illinois, the National Weather Service has confirmed, causing severe damage and knocking out power for...
Jun 24, 2015
Officials: 1 killed, 2 seriously injured in Kennedy crash near Loop
A serious crash involving a truck left a car mangled on the Kennedy Expressway early Wednesday. | Network Video Productions (CHICAGO) A person was killed and two others were seriously injured in a cra...
Jun 24, 2015
Motorcyclist killed in crash into house in northwest Indiana
(PORTAGE, Ind.) A 43-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a tree and a house early Saturday in northwest Indiana. Jeramy McWhirter crashed his motorcycle in the 5200 block of Lark Avenue i...
Jun 23, 2015
Woman critically injured in fall from Lincoln Park balcony
(CHICAGO) A 23-year-old woman is in critical condition after falling from a second-story balcony early Thursday near DePaul University's Lincoln Park campus on the North Side. Police mark off the stre...
Jun 18, 2015
