ASSOCIATED PRESS – WBAP/KLIF – Police say a 21 year old man has been arrested by agents with the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Newton, Mississippi, and is being held in connection and investigation into the deaths of three people, including a Fort Hood solider. 21 year old Barnard Lnell Morrow…… MORE
President Trump Visiting Texas & Louisiana After Hurricane Laura
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) – President Donald Trump says he is heading to Louisiana and Texas after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the states. Trump’s Saturday visit comes two days after the Category 4 storm smashed into Lake Charles, Louisiana. The mayor of the city of 80,000 warns it could be weeks before water…… MORE
15 Year Old In Critical Condition After Shooting in Deep Ellum Friday Night
DALLAS (AP) – Five people have been wounded, one critically, in a shooting in the Deep Ellum district on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas. A statement issued by police said the shooting was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Friday on Elm Street near Good-Latimer Expressway. Officers found three men and a woman wounded at…… MORE
FEMA Responds to Hurricane Laura
WASHINGTON (AP) – Hurricane Laura is testing an already stretched Federal Emergency Management Agency in what is shaping up to be an unprecedentedly disastrous year. FEMA has never faced a year like 2020. COVID-19 has prompted emergency declarations for all U.S. states and territories for the first time. The agency has deployed personnel to help…… MORE
The Trump Administration Has Held Hundreds Of Immigrant Children In Hotels
Houston (AP) – New data shows the U.S. government has detained children at several major hotel chains during the coronavirus pandemic instead of transferring them to government-funded shelters. The figures released Friday show that since March, the Trump administration has used hotels to hold at least 660 children, most unaccompanied by a parent, before expelling…… MORE