Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

DALLAS (AP) – Officials have renamed a portion of a Dallas street for Botham Jean, an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot in his apartment by a white former police officer who mistook his apa...

MEXIA, Texas (AP) – Officials say a Texas state trooper who was shot during a traffic stop last week is not expected to survive. Trooper Chad Walker is being kept on life support to be an organ ...

AL JONES CHIEF ARLINGTON POLICE ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- Arlington Chief of Police, Alexander Jones, recently completed a thorough review of the department and has implemented a restructure of the opera...

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County and local retailers are partnering to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to retail essential employees. Dallas County, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Kroger a...

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Days after a portion of Lamar Street in Dallas was renamed Botham Jean Boulevard, legislation inspired by the life and death of Botham Jean was proposed in the Texas legisla...

Derrick Chauvin (Photo by Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The high-profile trail of a former Minneapolis police officer begins today in George FloydR...

Trenton James Adams, 28 (Ellis County Sheriff’s Department) Ellis County (WBAP/KLIF) – The discovery of a body in Ellis County has led a warrant for the arrest of 28-year-old Trenton James...

AP – A delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures. The Census Bureau has said redistricting data that was supposed to b...

HOUSTON (AP) – Texas is set to begin making COVID-19 vaccines available to anyone who wants one. On Monday, Texas will become the most populous U.S. state to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility ...

Houston (AP) – The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenag...