Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Governor’s Mask Order Tangled In Legal Challenges
Houston (AP) – The legal battle over whether Texas communities can require students and others to wear masks in response to the current surge in COVID-19 cases remains entangled in a series of l...
Cumulus Media Aug 21, 2021

Judge Rules On Texas Medicaid Waiver
Tyler (AP) – A federal judge has issued a ruling that keeps in place Texas’ Medicaid agreement. The decision Friday blocks an effort by the Biden administration to rescind the deal. Texas ...
Cumulus Media Aug 21, 2021

Biden Pledges to Americans in Kabul: ‘We will get you Home’
Courtesy CNN WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is pledging to Americans still trapped in Afghanistan: “We will get you home.” Biden’s comments at a White House news confere...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

Governor Deploys Additional Medical Personnel, Establishes More COVID Antibody Infusion Centers
AUSTIN – The Texas Division of Emergency Management plan to deploy additional medical personnel and launch more COVID-19 antibody infusion centers across the state over the next week, according ...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

Texas Attorney General Sues San Antonio ISD over Vaccine Requirement
AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday that he filed a complaint asking for a temporary restraining order against San Antonio ISD after it refused to follow Executive Order GA-...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

Juvenile Arrested in Connection to Six-Year-Old River Oaks Girl’s Death
[photo courtesy of GoFundMe}RIVER OAKS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The River Oaks community is rallying the family of a six-year-old girl who was murdered this week. Investigators said little Isabella Co...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

COVID Anxiety Rising Amid Delta Surge
Photo courtesy WFAA DENVER (AP) - Anxiety in the United States over COVID-19 is at its highest level since winter, a new poll shows, as the delta variant rages, more states and school districts adopt ...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

Two Main Groups Account for the Most Unvaccinated in Texas
(WFAA) Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – While COVID-19 vaccinations have increased in recent weeks, the Delta variant continues to spread like wildfire among the unvaccinated in Texas. The viral load of the ...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

Texas Supreme Court Declines to Hold Up Mask Mandate Ban
(WFAA) The Texas Supreme Court has declined to block restraining orders against Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask mandate ban. The justices remanded Attorney General Ken Paxton’s appeal to the 3rd T...
Cumulus Media Aug 20, 2021

Enough Democrats Returned to the State Capitol to Allow the Texas House to Resume Work
Texas Capitol, Austin AUSTIN (AP)- Some Democrats who left Texas to block a GOP voting bill have ended a 38-day holdout. Enough Democrats returned to the state Capitol to allow the Texas House to resu...
Cumulus Media Aug 19, 2021









