Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

(WFAA) AUSTIN, TEXAS – The Texas House of Representatives voted 78 to 65 in favor of House Bill 547, the UIL Equal Access Bill. If this bill is passed, it would allow homeschooled students to be...

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Mattie Parker and Deborah Peoples share their views during a forum as they face a run off election for Fort Worth Mayor. Both discussed their stances on several issues includin...

AUSTIN – A date was set Wednesday for the special runoff election in Texas’ 6th Congressional District. The election is to fill the seat of late Congressman Ron Wright. Wright’s wido...

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Members of the Dallas County Hospital District Police Department are getting back to their roots with the re-launch of a bicycle unit at Parkland Hospital. For nearly two de...

(AP) – Federal health advisers have endorsed use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in kids as young as 12. Earlier in the week, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the expanded use of Pfiz...

(Photo: TRA) AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Alcohol to-go officially became law in Texas on Wednesday. Governor Abbott signed HB 1094 by Representative Geren and Senator Hancock, making permanent restaura...

(WFAA) UPDATED 8:23AM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans have ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the chamber’s No. 3 GOP leader, punishing her after she repeatedly r...

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) SAN DIEGO (AP) – The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while mo...

TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- A long-term plan to create a mental health jail diversion center - and provide an alternative to putting people with mental health needs behind bars - appears to be on the ...

Photo: Plano PD PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – The Plano Police Department is responding to backlash over its response to a recent protest through city streets. According to Plano Police, an officer was di...