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730 BOOM NEWS — Different cities. Different events. Same disturbing weekend. A homecoming celebration in Georgia erupted in massive gunfire. A popular Las Vegas arts festival ended with a 15-year-old dead. And in Los Angeles, Chicago rapper Lucki was caught up in a bloody altercation outside ComplexCon that left multiple people injured. Three completely separate incidents. Three crowds that came together expecting to have a good time. And once again, violence crashed the part

WASHINGTON — Baby, WHAT ARE WE DOING?! President Donald Trump got so irritated with Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas over daylight saving time that he publicly posted what he said was Cotton's personal cellphone number and encouraged people to call him. Not his Senate office number. Not the switchboard. His personal cellphone number. Over. A. CLOCK. 😭 📱 WAIT...HE REALLY POSTED THE NUMBER? According to the Associated Press and Reuters, Trump posted the Arkansas number

📍WASHINGTON — While automakers keep loading dashboards with apps, subscriptions, touchscreens and enough technology to make your car feel like a rolling iPad, Congress is fighting to make sure one old-school feature doesn't disappear: AM RADIO. 📻 The U.S. House has passed the bipartisan AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, legislation that would require automakers to provide access to AM broadcast stations in new passenger vehicles without charging drivers an additional fee. And

💔 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL FATALLY STABBED WHILE WALKING IN CHATHAM CHICAGO — There are some stories where there is no joke, no punchline and no clever Lady Red commentary that belongs anywhere near it. This is one of them. Seven-year-old Eddimar Paola Hernandez was fatally stabbed Saturday morning while walking along a sidewalk near 86th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood. Chicago police say the attack happened around 11:55 a.m. on October 3. Acc

CHICAGO — Ford City Mall may be closed, but apparently some folks decided the plywood over the doors was merely a suggestion. Video circulating online shows dozens of people breaking into the shuttered portion of Ford City Mall on Chicago's Southwest Side, renewing concerns about security and the dangerous condition of the massive vacant property. And city officials say this isn't just about trespassing. There are serious concerns about what's underneath that building. 🚨 VID

Z 💔 TRINA BRAXTON’S HUSBAND VON SCALES DEAD AT 58 730 BOOM RADIO | BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Sad news out of the Braxton family today. Von Scales, businessman, former college basketball player and husband of singer and reality-TV personality Trina Braxton, has died at 58. A representative for the family confirmed his passing Thursday, October 1. People.com According to TMZ, sources close to the family said Scales died early Thursday morning in Atlanta. Those sources said h

730 BOOM RADIO | GOOD NEWS CHICAGO CHICAGO 💥 Now THIS is the kind of money story we like to report. After School Matters raised nearly $2.7 million to support Chicago teenagers during its annual gala celebrating the organization’s 35th anniversary. And this isn’t just money going into a building somewhere with a fancy plaque on the wall. The funding supports paid after-school and summer opportunities for Chicago teens, giving young people the chance to explore interests, dev

730 BOOM RADIO | KNUCKLEHEAD NEWS NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 💥 Baby, pack your bags because apparently somebody thought parental supervision was an optional cruise add-on. A 29-year-old Florida mother, Nathalie Belizaire, was arrested after police say she left four children home alone, including a 2-month-old baby and a 2-year-old, while she took a three-day cruise to the Bahamas. Baller Alert Yes. TWO. MONTHS. OLD. Police allege Belizaire boarded the Carnival Conquest on Se

730 BOOM RADIO | RED ALERT™ TIPP CITY, OHIO 💥 A former American Idol contestant and worship pastor who once publicly talked about how much he loved his wife has now been convicted of murdering her. An Ohio jury found 40-year-old Caleb Flynn guilty on all nine charges in connection with the February 16, 2026 killing of his wife, 37-year-old Ashley Flynn, a teacher, volleyball coach and mother of two. The charges included aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and tamper

730 BOOM RADIO | KNUCKLEHEAD NEWS SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA 💥 When we first saw this headline, the immediate question was: WAIT. Y’all had to put almost 100,000 POUNDS of cocaine on a MILITARY PLANE and fly it to America just to burn it?! 😳 Turns out, yes. A U.S. Air Force C-17 military transport plane carried roughly 45 metric tons of cocaine seized by Costa Rican authorities to the United States for destruction. The massive stash had accumulated from multiple anti-drug operati

730 BOOM RADIO | NATIONAL NEWS 📍WASHINGTON, D.C. 💥 The fight between the Trump White House and several major news organizations just took another turn, and this one has lawyers reaching for the paperwork again. A federal judge recently ordered the White House to temporarily restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico after President Donald Trump barred the organizations from White House grounds. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a 14-day temporary restraining order,

730 BOOM RADIO | MONEY ALERT WASHINGTON 💥 Before everybody starts mentally spending that $500, there is one BIG catch: This is NOT a $500 check for everybody. The Trump administration says nearly 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees in 30 states will receive $500 refund checks. The Treasury began sending the payments September 30, according to CBS News. CBS News 💰 WHO QUALIFIES? The refunds are primarily for people who: Purchased ACA health insurance through the federall

730 BOOM RADIO | RED ALERT™ Well, apparently somebody may have been treating Fort Dix like Fort Diddy. 😳 Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been returned to the Special Housing Unit, commonly called SHU or solitary confinement, at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey while officials investigate allegations about contraband and unusual privileges he may have received behind bars. The reported move follows an NBC News investigation based on interviews with four men who said they spent ti

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA — Rapper and music mogul Rick Ross was arrested Thursday, October 1, after voluntarily surrendering to Miami Beach police in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident. Ross, whose legal name is William Roberts II, faces one felony count of battery by strangulation and one misdemeanor battery charge, according to police and court records. WHAT IS HE ACCUSED OF? According to the arrest affidavit, the allegations stem from an incident that allege

730 BOOM RADIO | CHICAGO A viral video involving a Chicago police sergeant and a 17-year-old girl has now moved from social media to the criminal justice system. Chicago Police Sgt. Jeremy Sikorski, 45, has been charged in connection with an encounter in which he is accused of punching the teenager during an arrest on the Southwest Side. According to WGN's report, the incident happened near Merrimac Avenue in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Video circulating online appears t

730 BOOM RADIO | RED ALERT™ Cornell University is facing mounting questions over its handling of allegations that a former student was sexually assaulted by seven men at a fraternity house in 2024, and now one question is getting louder: What exactly did the university’s investigation find? Cornell says it conducted a months-long Title IX investigation, held a hearing and imposed serious disciplinary sanctions, including expulsions and suspensions. But the university says it

BREAKING: MAN DEAD, WOMAN HURT IN SHOOTING AT OAKBROOK CENTER OAK BROOK, IL — 730 BOOM BREAKING NEWS A Wednesday afternoon trip to Oakbrook Center turned deadly after gunfire erupted in a parking lot outside the suburban shopping mall, leaving one man dead and one woman injured. Oak Brook police say officers responded shortly after 12:30 p.m. on September 30 to the parking lot near the L.L.Bean store. Investigators say two vehicles carrying a total of five people had parked n

730 BOOM RADIO | WTF NEWS Listen. Some of y’all already don’t like flying. You grip the armrest when the plane hits a little turbulence. You start negotiating with God when the seatbelt sign comes on. Somebody coughs too hard in Row 17 and you're already looking around. So imagine you're cruising at 33,000 feet and suddenly the plane starts dropping. Not turbulence. Not a little bump. DROPPING. That nightmare became reality Wednesday aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073, traveling f

730 BOOM RADIO | WHAT’S HAPPENING CHICAGO CHICAGO 💥 Imagine practicing all week, getting your uniform ready, telling your family what time the game starts, and then finding out: NO REF. NO GAME. That became reality for some Chicago Public Schools athletes this week after sports officials stopped accepting assignments because they said they had gone weeks without being paid. Multiple freshman and junior varsity football games were canceled, and reports said girls flag footbal

730 BOOM RADIO | BREAKING NEWS NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 💥 What was supposed to be an execution Wednesday night turned into a medical and legal emergency after Christa Gail Pike remained alive following the administration of two syringes of the lethal-injection drug pentobarbital, according to her attorneys and media witnesses. CBS News Pike, 50, has spent roughly three decades on Tennessee's death row for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike was 18 at the time o