WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Unemployment claim numbers have fallen to historic lows recently. According to the Department of Labor, 199,000 people filed first time jobless claims last week. Those figures are down 71,000 from the previous week and the lowest level the country has seen since mid-November in 1969. Unadjusted, claims rose by 18,000 to…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth police have arrested a 15-year boy in connection with the aggravated robbery and sexual assault of a 55-year old woman over the weekend. Incoming tips led to an arrest wednesday afternoon. Police say the suspect forced his way into an apartment on Hulen Street on Sunday afternoon and demanded…… MORE
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — In an effort to spark an anemic offense with the season teetering on the brink of fiasco, the New York Giants fired offensive coordinator Jason Garrett after a dreadful performance in a nationally televised game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Coach Joe Judge confirmed the dismissal of Garrett on Tuesday,…… MORE
UNDATED (AP) – Samsung said it plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Texas amid a global shortage of chips used in phones, laptops, cars and other electronic devices. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Samsung announced the project Tuesday. The plant will be located in Taylor, just northeast of Austin. The chip shortage…… MORE
UNDATED (AP) – “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month. Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father, the first American in space. The Blue…… MORE