Updated at 1:45pm: WASHINGTON (AP) – The man who claimed to have bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff. The man, identified by law enforcement officials as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, crawled out of the vehicle and was being taken into…… MORE
AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low, the latest sign that America’s job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand. The Labor Department reported that jobless…… MORE
Paris, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – While the legal battle rages on regarding masking up in Texas schools one district has found a ‘go-around’ to Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mandates. Paris Independent School District in far northeast Texas voted this week to make masks part of its dress code. The school board said in a written…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Texas law outlawing an abortion method commonly used to end second-trimester pregnancies was upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The 2017 law in question has never been enforced. It seeks to prohibit the use of forceps to remove a fetus from the womb — what supporters…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Fort Worth City Council voted to establish a memorial designation on I-35W to honor Atatiana Jefferson, a Fort Worth woman killed by a former police officer nearly two years ago. Jefferson was shot at through a window of her mother’s south fort worth home during a non emergency call. The designation…… MORE