Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

TCU Coach Gary Patterson – Pinterest TCU football coach Gary Patterson said his team is getting closer to 100 percent vaccination. The horned frogs now sit at 90-percent vaccination, according t...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Photo courtesy CNN PENTAGON (AP) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. military doesn’t have the capacity to extend security forces beyond the...

Photo: Joshua Lee Green, APD ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF) – Authorities announced on Wednesday that an arrest has been made in a shooting that triggered a statewide blue alert. A blue alert indicates t...

PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – The Plano Balloon Festival, Inc. announced this week that it has decided to cancel the 2021 H-E-B Central Market Plano Balloon Festival that was scheduled for September 17-19...

The Vatican – AP (WBAP/KLIF) – Pope Francis is adding his voice to a global campaign to overcome vaccine skepticism. He appears in a public service announcement insisting that vaccines are...

HOUSTON (AP) - As the new school year begins for Texas students and mask mandates are debated in various state courts, at least four school districts have already closed campuses due to COVID-19 outbr...

Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth ISD voted last night to join lawsuit against Gov. Abbott's ban on school mask mandates; that, fter a Tarrant County judge late Friday blocked a mandate for th...

MESQUITE (WBAP/KLIF)- The City of Mesquite has announced five finalists for Police Chief. The finalists will participate in panel interviews in Mesquite August 25 - 26, and the City plans to select on...

Gov. Greg Abbott AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott has tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently isolating in the Governor’s mansion receiving monoclonal antibody treatment. Hi...

(Photo: TBM) DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A volunteer group based in North Texas is helping the people of Haiti recover from this month’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake that left more than 1,000 people ...