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State Farm is Hiring Hundreds Claims Employees Locally & Across the Country
RICHARDSON, TX - State Farm is hiring more than 1,500 full-time claims employees which include hundreds of roles based in-office at City Line in Richardson as well as State Farm headquarters in Bloomi...
May 13, 2021
SCOTUS Considers Hearing Case On ‘N Word’
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court is considering whether to hear the case of a Black man who says he suffered discrimination because the N-word was carved into the wall of a Parkland Hospital ...
May 13, 2021
US Agents Encounter More Single Adults Are Crossing Border
Border Immigrants – WFAA photo LA JOYA, Texas (AP) - Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young ch...
May 13, 2021
Austin: HB-547 UIL Equal Access Bill Passes Texas House on 2nd Reading
(WFAA) AUSTIN, TEXAS – The Texas House of Representatives voted 78 to 65 in favor of House Bill 547, the UIL Equal Access Bill. If this bill is passed, it would allow homeschooled students to be...
May 13, 2021
Mattie Parker, Deborah Peoples Square off in a Fort Worth Mayoral Run-Off Forum
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Mattie Parker and Deborah Peoples share their views during a forum as they face a run off election for Fort Worth Mayor. Both discussed their stances on several issues includin...
May 12, 2021
Date Set in Special Election Runoff to Fill Congressional Seat of the Late Ron Wright
AUSTIN – A date was set Wednesday for the special runoff election in Texas’ 6th Congressional District. The election is to fill the seat of late Congressman Ron Wright. Wright’s wido...
May 12, 2021
Police Officers at Parkland Restore Bicycle Patrols
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Members of the Dallas County Hospital District Police Department are getting back to their roots with the re-launch of a bicycle unit at Parkland Hospital. For nearly two de...
May 12, 2021
US Advisers Endorse Pfizer COVID Shot for Kids 12 and Up
(AP) – Federal health advisers have endorsed use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in kids as young as 12. Earlier in the week, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the expanded use of Pfiz...
May 12, 2021
Alcohol To-Go Becomes Law in Texas
(Photo: TRA) AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Alcohol to-go officially became law in Texas on Wednesday. Governor Abbott signed HB 1094 by Representative Geren and Senator Hancock, making permanent restaura...
May 12, 2021
House GOP Ousts Defiant Trump Critic Liz Cheney From Top Post
(WFAA) UPDATED 8:23AM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans have ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader, punishing her after she repeatedly r...
May 12, 2021
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