The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to shorten the recommended length of quarantine after exposure to someone who is positive for COVID-19, as the virus rages across the nation. According to a senior administration official, the new guidelines, which are set to be released as soon as Tuesday evening, will allow people…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas has “full resurgence” of COVID-19; so says the White House Coronavirus Task Force in a recent report. The report calls for proactive testing of Texas teachers, hospital staff and other community members to search for “silent spreaders,” and to place significant limits on the number of people gathering indoors. Details are…… MORE
UNDATED (WBAP/KLIF) – Three people from Tyler are in custody in Las Vegas following Thanksgiving Day shootings in the city before their arrests in rural Arizona. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, brothers Shawn & Christopher McDonnell, and Christopher’s wife Kayleigh Lewis were arrested after “several vehicle-to-vehicle shootings.” Christopher McDonnell told investigators his brother Shawn…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The city of Fort Worth, Tuesday, mirrored a Tarrant county decision regarding COVID-19 restrictions. The Fort Worth City Council, Tuesday, approved extending the city’s mask mandate through March 2nd of 2021. The decision is similar to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court vote last week to mandate masks through the end of February. Fort…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- India’s first-ever government plane, for flying dignitaries, recently flew non-stop from Fort Worth Alliance Airport to New Delhi, India. Tom Harris, President of Alliance Air Services says the plane covered roughly 8,000 miles in just over 15 hours and it was made possible by the airport’s milestone runway extension. “The extended runway…… MORE