Category Archives: Weekends on WMCI

Newton Police Selling Porkburgers
The Newton Police Department will be selling porkburgers at the Newton K.C. Hall this Friday (5/11) from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Pre-orders are welcome at 618-783-4500. Proceeds will benefit the polic...
Renee Fonner May 07, 2018

Confirmed Cases Of Mumps At WIU
SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting four laboratory-confirmed cases of mumps among students at Western Illinois University (WIU). IDPH has been working with the ...
Renee Fonner May 07, 2018

U Of I Testing Beer Tents At Games
U Of I Testing Beer Tents At Games (Urbana, IL) -- The University of Illinois says its first beer tent test went well. The school in Champaign Urbana last week opened a beer tent at a Fighting Illini ...
Renee Fonner May 07, 2018

New Pop-Tarts Flavors
(Battle Creek, MI) -- Pop-Tarts fans have reason to celebrate. Kellogg's is releasing two new toaster pastries with side-by-side flavor combinations. The limited edition Pop-Tarts Splitz features two ...
MyRadioLink May 06, 2018 Mike Mozart / CC

Taylor Swift Visits Girl In Phoenix Hospital
(Phoenix, AZ) -- Taylor Swift isn't too busy to give an eight-year-old Arizona burn victim a life-lasting memory. Swift took time out from getting ready for her upcoming performance in the Valley of t...
MyRadioLink May 06, 2018 Jana Beamer / CC

"Avengers: Infinity War" Setting Box Office Records
(Los Angeles, CA) -- The new Disney-Marvel blockbuster is having the best second weekend in movie history. "Avengers: Infinity War" is on track to sell just over 112-million-dollars in tickets in Nort...
MyRadioLink May 06, 2018 Kenneth Lu / CC

Hawaii Authorities Say Even Though Seismicity Is Down, It's Likely Not Over
Hawaii authorities say even though seismic activity has reached a lull near the Kilauea Volcano, it's likely not over. Civil Defense Administrator Talmadge Magno says the eight fissures stemming from ...
May 06, 2018

Facebook Activity Remains Largely Unchanged
The recent Facebook privacy scandal isn't having that much effect on the social media platform's user numbers. It was recently revealed that the data of millions of users had been improperly obtained ...
May 06, 2018

Big Mac Fan Eats His 30-Thousandth Order
(Madison, WI) -- A man known for his love and devotion to the McDonald's Big Mac has eaten his 30-thousandth burger. Don Gorske of Wisconsin holds the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs consumed....
MyRadioLink May 05, 2018

Onetime 007 Actor Putting Home Up For Sale
(Pearblossom, CA) -- An actor who portrayed James Bond in the 1969 film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is putting his Antelope Valley home up for sale. George Lazenby's mountaintop estate in Pearbl...
MyRadioLink May 05, 2018