AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A White House document prepared for the Coronavirus Task Force shows over 120 Texas counties, including those in the DFW metroplex are COVID-19 “red zones,” which mean areas that have reported new cases of about 100 per 100-thousand people in the last week; or a positivity rate over 10%. According to a…… MORE
Frisco (WBAP/KLIF) – The Frisco ISD is moving to a virtual environment for the first three weeks of the 2020-21 school year, due to what it says is the “rapidly changing stiuation with COVID-19 and information from the Texas Education Agency.” In an email to parents, the district said the first day of school will…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money from 10 bank accounts belonging to married U.S. Army veterans in Texas. Investigators allege that the pair used personal information stolen from soldiers to defraud the military. Neither Kevin Pelayo nor Cristine Fredericks has been charged with a crime, but Army…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Salvation Army and Reliant Energy have opened 13 cooling stations across North Texas to help the community combat high heat exposure. Hundreds of cars looped around the Salvation Army’s Pleasant Grove Community Center in Dallas, one of the cooling sation locations, to pick up portable fans, water, PPE and even boxes of food. “Unfortunately,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Dallas County Health Department is ordering all schools, public and private, to postpone in person learning until after September 8th. Dallas health officials released an order July 16th stating Dallas County is reporting record-high numbers of COVID-19 and COVID-19 related hospitalizations. The order says school systems shall not reopen for on campus, face-to-face…… MORE