Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival Goes Virtual Due to COVID-19
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival has been rescheduled for this fall, but there's still an opportunity to participate now in the springtime tradition. Due to COVID-19, the 2...
Apr 15, 2020
Collin County Establishes Economic Recovery Task Force
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – Collin County Judge Chris Hill announced this week that he has established an Economic Recovery Task Force in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “As a result of C...
Apr 15, 2020
City of Fort Worth Collecting Homemade Masks to Protect Essential Workers
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- In an effort to keep City of Fort Worth essential employees safe, The Fort Worth Public Library is hosting a collection drive for homemade masks. “We have a number of cit...
Apr 15, 2020
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and FTC Blast Arlington Company Over False Coronavirus Cure Claims
[Twitter photo]ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – An Arlington company accused of promoting false cures for coronvirus is trying to clear its name. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Resurgenc...
Apr 15, 2020
FEMA Boosts North Texas Food Bank Shelves
(WBAP/KLIF) — Trucks with new food shipments will soon be rolling to the North Texas Food Bank. The food bank serves 13 counties in North Texas and received some good news, Tuesday. Dallas Count...
Apr 15, 2020
Dallas County Census Team Ramps Up Online Efforts to Get Participation During COVID-19
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Dallas County Census team is working to get 100% participation amid COVID-19. Sophia Johnson coordinator for the Dallas County census says they have moved to a heavy digital st...
Apr 14, 2020
Trump Halts US Payments to World Health Organization
Courtesy CNN WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he has directed a halt to U.S. payments to the World Health Organization pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and Chi...
Apr 14, 2020
Dallas Food Truck Company Serves Meals to Essential Workers Amid COVID-19
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- A Dallas food truck company, Ruthie’s, is supplying meals for essential workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. “One of our customers called and graciously underwrote Rut...
Apr 14, 2020
Whiskey Distillery Donates Hundreds of Gallons of Sanitizer to First Responders
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A Waco based whiskey distillery is providing sanitizer to North Texas first responders as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise. The Balcones Distillery delivere...
Apr 14, 2020
Dallas County Reports 10 COVID-19 Deaths as Confirmed DFW Cases Rise
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas and Tarrant counties are reporting more COVID-19 related deaths as the case count rises across DFW. Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 89 additional pos...
Apr 14, 2020
