FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – As part of its effort to meet the need for more COVID-19 testing, Tarrant County unveiled a new self-screening website this week. The new website, covidtesting.tarrantcounty.com, launched Sunday. The first day for testing appointments was Monday. According to Tarrant County Public Health, during the first week, slots for the testing site will…… MORE
BEAUMONT (WBAP/KLIF News) – The mayor of Beaumont apologized for violating a stay-at-home order after a photo of her surfaced on social media visiting a nail salon. After the photo spread, Mayor Becky Ames said she was there for a short period of time in order to learn how to remove her manicured nails and to…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has paid out $1.7 billion dollars in unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic; some of those funds are part of the federal stimulus package. With some $900-million dollars left in TWC’s bank account, state officials are looking at opens to replenish the fund before it’s depleted? Texas…… MORE
EL PASO, Teas (AP) – A hospital official says that a man shot in the Aug. 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart has died after months in the hospital. Guillermo ‘Memo’ Garcia was fundraising for his daughter’s soccer team in front of the Walmart when he was shot nine months ago. His…… MORE
TEMPLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a Bell County, Texas, deputy sheriff was killed early Sunday when he was struck by a vehicle while helping a neighboring county’s sheriffs department try to stop another vehicle it had pursued into Bell County on Interstate 35. Deputy John Andrew Rhoden, 31, was killed when he was struck…… MORE