Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Texas Investigation into Officer Shooting Killing a Young African American Man.
TEXAS CITY – Associated Press (WBAP/KLIF) – A private autopsy on the body of a 22 year old man shot dead at the hands of police appears to show the man died of a single gunshot to his back...
Dec 19, 2020
More Than A Dozen Families Held at Texas Immigration Center Allegedly About to Be Deported
HOUSTON (AP) – Lawyers say the U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with ...
Dec 19, 2020
Hundreds of Thousands of Texans Expected to Receive Coronavirus Vaccine By The End of the Month
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott says more than 1 million Texans are expected to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by the end of the month. Speaking Thursday at a press conference in Austin, the g...
Dec 19, 2020
A federal judge has again found the state of Texas in contempt of court.
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Judge Janis Graham Jack found the state in contempt for exposing thousands of children in its foster care program to what she says is "an unreasonable risk of serious harm."...
Dec 19, 2020
Unemployment in Texas just keeps rising.
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas unemployment rate increased to 8.1% in November, from 6.9% in October. That means Texas is well above the national average, and has been for more than four months....
Dec 19, 2020
Texas Nearing 1.4 Million Coronavirus Cases
(WBAP/KLIF) — The state of Texas is nearing 1.4 million cases of COVID-19 as a second vaccine is about to be shipped. The Texas death toll is closing in on 25,000. North Texas is just one death ...
Dec 18, 2020
Second Coronavirus Vaccine Approved by FDA
(WBAP/KLIF) — F-D-A Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn announced another approval in the fight against the Coronavirus… the Moderna brand COVID 19 vaccine. Hahn says distribution will be swift....
Dec 18, 2020
Local Artist Transforms a Section of the Dallas Love Field Airport Parking Garage into Mavs Themed Space
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- For those parking and traveling out of Dallas Love Field this holiday season, especially Dallas Mavericks fans, there is a wonderful surprise. And just in time for the NBA tip off,...
Dec 18, 2020
Leaders Asking Families not to Mix Households this Holiday Season
(Photo by Andres Gutierrez/picture alliance via Getty Images) DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Many health and elected leaders are teaming up to ask people not to mix households this Christmas and the holid...
Dec 18, 2020
Report: Burgess Won’t Acknowledge Joe Biden as ‘President-elect’
Credit – WFAA TV North Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas congressman has not acknowledged Joe Biden as ‘president elect.’ During an interview with the Denton Record-Chronicle on Wednes...
Dec 18, 2020
