(WBAP/KLIF) — An appeals court has refused to allow the Trump administration to continue detaining illegal immigrant children in hotel rooms before deporting them to their home countries. The rules had been adopted as a means to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sunday upheld a…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Coronavirus has resulted in nearly 164,000 positive tests in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Health departments across the Metroplex reported almost 2,200 newly confirmed positive tests of COVID-19, Sunday. 453 positives occurred in Dallas county, 601 in Tarrant county, and Collin county reported 20 newly confirmed tests. In all, Dallas county is approaching 84,000…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A Texas-based company is closing its remaining coal-fired power plants in Illinois. Vistra Energy had already shuttered four Ilinois power plants in Canton, Coffeen, Havana and Hennepin and agreed to close another near Peoria as part of a legal settlement. However, the Houston-based company announced that it plans to close its four remaining Illinois…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas health officials report 2,181 newly reported positive Coronavirus tests and 33 additional deaths, Sunday. The one number not being reported by the state is how many of those newly reported positive tests came from the over 71,000 active cases of COVID-19. The Texas health department, reported a total of nearly 766,000 positive…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Several top deputies of Texas’ attorney general have accused him of crimes including bribery and abuse of office in an internal letter saying they’ve reported the actions to law enforcement. In a brief letter, seven senior lawyers wrote that they reported Republican Ken Paxton for potentially breaking the law “in his official…… MORE