Jim Roberts
Digital Content Manager
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Jim Roberts is the Digital Content Manager at WGEM. Jim has spent most of his career in the radio industry, but joined WGEM and made the jump to television.
Jim grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and later Urbandale, Iowa. Jim attended Ozark Christian College and Missouri Southern College in Joplin, Missouri. There he majored in Communications with an emphasis in Radio & Television.
Jim has lived the last 15 years in Quincy with his wife and son and enjoys collecting vintage computers, gaming, technology and flying drones.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2022 at 1:08 PM CST
|By Jim Roberts
Due to the continued decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, and increase in available ICU beds, the Illinois indoor mask requirement will end Monday at 12:01 a.m
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 4:25 PM CST
|By Jim Roberts
Attorney General Kwame Raoul is urging the Illinois Supreme Court to order Judge Robert K. Adrian to "impose a lawful sentence" in an Adams County sexual assault case.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 at 11:59 AM CST
|By Jim Roberts and Rebecca Duffy
Macomb Police announced on Monday they would increase their presence within the Macomb School District after the district choose to keep its masking requirement.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 2:49 PM CST
|By Jim Roberts and Mike Miletich
Gov. Pritzker has activated approximately 130 members of the Illinois National Guard.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 5:12 PM CST
|By Jim Roberts
Macomb Police reported Thursday that the cause of death of a man discovered in the front yard of a home in the 1300 block of E. Wheeler St. was medical-related.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 9:17 AM CST
|By Jim Roberts
Macomb Police reported Wednesday morning they were conducting a death investigation in the 1300 block of East Wheeler Street.