Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Arlington ISD Announces 2020 Graduation to be held at Cowboys Stadium
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- When the Arlington ISD announced it would hold its 2020 graduation ceremonies at UT Arlington's College Park Center last week, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) had not issued gr...
May 13, 2020
Texas Ramps up COVID-19 Testing at State Prisons
Photo: Federal Bureau of Prisons AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Strike teams are being deployed to Texas prisons to ramp up the number of prisoners tested for COVID-19. The move comes as the number of con...
May 13, 2020
Dallas City Council Approves Contract to Provide Mobile COVID-19 Testing to Those Without Transportation Access
Getty Image DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Dallas City Council unanimously approved a contract to provide mobile COVID-19 testing specifically to residents in underserved communities without transportation. ...
May 13, 2020
Goldman Sachs Donates $110,000 to COVID-19 Relief Efforts in Dallas
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Goldman Sachs is donating $110,000 to the Dallas Mayor’s Disaster Relief Fund. The donation is intended to help those impacted by COVID-19 “Dallas, like every city, has...
May 13, 2020
FWPD Dashcam Captures Moments Before Gunfire Erupted at a City Park
FORT WORTH, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Newly released police video shows a chaotic scene in a crowded North Texas park as gunfire erupts, wounding five people. A police statement Tuesday says about 400...
May 13, 2020
State Court Computer System Attacked
DALLAS (AP) – Texas courts have been hit with a ransomware attack that took down the website and case management systems for the state’s appellate and high courts. The Office of Court Admi...
May 13, 2020
2 arrested after Texas police find 6-year-old locked in shed
Photo courtesy WFAA DALLAS (AP) - Police have arrested two people after finding a 6-year-old boy locked in a shed in Dallas. Esmeralda Lira, 53, and Jose Balderas, 66, were booked into the Dallas Coun...
May 13, 2020
Over 12,000 Coronavirus Cases in DFW
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Metroplex accounts for 30% of the Coronavirus cases in Texas. Of the over 41,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in the Lone Star State, more than 12,000 are in D-F-W. Dallas county...
May 12, 2020
Dallas Hires New COVID-19 Health and Health Care Access Czar
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson 5-12-20 DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- Amid the Coronavirus pandemic Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson provided an update on the city’s status in the fight against the virus. Johnson...
May 12, 2020
Fort Worth Now Accepting Applications for $15.4 million in CARES Act funding
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Fort Worth Neighborhood Services Department is accepting applications for several programs to assist residents with housing and other household expenses during COVID-19. Vi...
May 12, 2020
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