MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – Collin College announced this week that it will offer free, voluntary COVID-19 vaccination booster shots at multiple campuses this spring. Open to students, employees, and the general public, the vaccination clinics will be held in partnership with Albertsons and Tom Thumb pharmacies. Both Pfizer and Moderna booster vaccines are available, according…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A retrial date is set in a case against accused North Texas serial killer Billy Chemirmir. Chemirmir is facing 18 charges in the burglaries and killings of elderly women in the metroplex. Last November, Chemirmir stood trial in the murder of Lu Harris. An 11 to 1 deadlocked jury forced a mistrial.…… MORE
WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News) – The late poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is the new face of the U.S. quarter. It’s the first in a series of coins from the United State’s Mint’s American Women Quarters Program. Angelou is the first black woman to appear on the quarter. The author shot to fame…… MORE
WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News) – Americans who are privately insured will now have access to more COVID-19 tests. The Biden Administration announced Monday that starting Saturday, January 15, private insurers must start covering the costs of eight FDA approved, over-the-counter at-home COVID-19 diagnostic tests per month. There is no requirement for a doctor’s visit or…… MORE
In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. While it’s too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the…… MORE