Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Pilot Project of Oklahoma DOC to Find Cellphones Used By Inmates
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says it will take part in a pilot project intended to find cellphones being used by inmates in state prisons. The department on Thursd...
Sep 19, 2020
Sheriff Accused Of Rewarding Force By Deputies
Georgetown (AP) – Two former employees of a Texas sheriff’s office say leaders rewarded officers with gift cards when they used force on the job. The Texas Rangers and the Williamson Count...
Sep 19, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies of Pancreatic Cancer
Getty Images WASHINGTON (AP)-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, has died at her home...
Sep 18, 2020
Autumn at the Dallas Arboretum is Back
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Autumn at the Arboretum Opens to the public September 19th. This is the 15th year the Dallas Arboretum will show off it’s Fall Pumpkin Village, with 90,000 pumpkins on displa...
Sep 18, 2020
AT&T Delivers Half a Million Dollars to Fight Racial Inequity in Dallas
DALLAS – AT&T Friday gifted nine Dallas area agencies that help Black and underserved communities a half million dollars to help their cause. The contribution is part of a $10 million dollar...
Sep 18, 2020
Senate Passes Cornyn’s Jenna Quinn Law to Prevent Child Abuse
(Jenna Quinn) (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn praised the Senate’s passage of the Jenna Quinn Law this week, which would allow current grant funds to be used to train and educate st...
Sep 18, 2020
Reported COVID-19 Cases Represent Less than Half-a-Percent of Texas Students Back in Class
(Texas DSHS) AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Education Agency is promising transparency in its efforts surrounding COVID-19 statistics. In collaboration with the TEA, the Texas Department of Stat...
Sep 18, 2020
Markers Honoring Fallen Officer Unveiled on North Texas Highway
(City of Richardson) RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF) – A fallen North Texas police officer is being honored along a stretch of local highway. During a ceremony with Richardson Police on Friday, friends a...
Sep 18, 2020
Fort Worth Police Release Surveillance Footage of Persons of Interest in Recent Murder of Local Teen
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Fort Worth police released surveillance video this week in an effort to ID three persons of interest in the murder of a local teen. 19-year-old Yesenia Abigail Corp...
Sep 18, 2020
Trump Says COVID Death Rate Would Be Great if ‘Blue States’ Aren’t Counted
NY, NY – APRIL 29: (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) MOSINEE, WI (WBAP/KLIF) – At an rally in Wisconsin last night, President Donald Trump told supporters he had the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Sep 18, 2020
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