Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Feds Announce Operation To Reduce Violent Crime In Austin
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Federal officials have announced an effort to reduce violent crime in Austin, one of many U.S. cities that have seen an increase in murders and other violent crime during th...
Dec 21, 2020
FTW Man Released From Prison After Serving Quadruple DWI Fatality Sentence
Parker County, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth man convicted in the quadruple intoxication manslaughter deaths of 4 Brock High School students in 1998 was released from prison last month, accordin...
Dec 21, 2020
Special Election Fills State Senate Seat
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A state legislator has won a state senate runoff against Dallas hair salon owner Shelley Luther. Representative Drew Springer who was backed by Governor Greg Abbott defeated...
Dec 20, 2020
California’s Semifinal College Football Bowl Game Will Be Played In Texas.
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – California state health restrictions won’t allow the Rose Bowl to have fans attend the game in person during that state’s resurgent pandemic, so the organizer...
Dec 20, 2020
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
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