DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott updated North Texans on the state’s response to the continued spread of COVID-19 while joining The Rick Roberts Show on WBAP on Friday. Abbott said the state’s reopening efforts are moving along smoothly as more businesses get back to work. The Office of the Governor and the King…… MORE
DALLAS/FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – More Texans are driving amid the easing of covid-19 restrictions and that’s lead to an increase in gas prices. AAA Texas’ Daniel Armbruster said prices in Dallas Fort Worth have increased six cents, hovering around $1.62 per gallon of regular unleaded. Drivers in El Paso are paying the most in Texas…… MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minneapolis officer who was seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe, was arrested Friday. Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said state investigators arrested Derek Chauvin. The arrest comes after three days of protests,…… MORE
Sienna Plantation (WBAP/KLIF) – A deputy constable was shot and killed early Friday morning in Fort Bend County’s Sierra Plantation subdivision, south of Houston. Fort Bend Sheriff Troy Nehls says the constable was shot by a deputy while the two of them, and two other deputies were checking the security inside an unlocked, vacant house.…… MORE
Laredo (WBAP/KLIF) – A private plane carrying three people had to make an emergency landing Thursday on a highway near Laredo. The Beechcraft Bonanza developed an unspecified problem in flight. Air traffic controllers in Houston notified Laredo Police that it was going to have to land on U.S. 59 about 12 miles east of Laredo.…… MORE