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More Than 200 Dead & Hundreds Injured / Missing Following Haiti Earthquake

More Than 200 Dead & Hundreds Injured / Missing Following Haiti Earthquake

UPDATED 8/14/21 @ 2:59P.M. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 227 killed, hundreds injured and missing, in earthquake. (Copyright 2021, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) ======== PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck Haiti just days before a tropical storm is expected to make landfall, killing…MORE

Folk Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies

Folk Singer-Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies

Nashville (AP) – Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68.  Her management company says Griffith died Friday. Gold Mountain Entertainment did not provide a cause of death. Griffith, who often wove into her songs social commentary…MORE

Cruise Ship Heads For Galveston With COVID On Board

Cruise Ship Heads For Galveston With COVID On Board

Galveston (AP) – A Carnival cruise ship on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is now headed back to Galveston. The Belize Tourism Board said in a statement the positive cases were among 26 crew members and one passenger on the Carnival…MORE

Kraft-Heinz Garland Announces Campus Expansion, Higher Wages, More Amenities

Kraft-Heinz Garland Announces Campus Expansion, Higher Wages, More Amenities

GARLAND (WBAP/KLIF)- Kraft Heinz-Garland announces new initiatives and is expanding their facility, adding new programs, offering higher wages, and new renovations to the building.  Kraft-Heinz is pivoting to create a multi-function manufacturing campus amd extend employment oppurtunities to attract both blue-collar and white-collar talent. “As we continue our improvements to the facility, we hope to make…MORE

Arlington ISD Threatens to Sue Governor Abbott

Arlington ISD Threatens to Sue Governor Abbott

ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF) – The Arlington Independent School District is concerned for the health of their students, staff, and visitors on campus. Kecia Mays, President of Arlington I-S-D’s Board of Trustees, says “one of the tools we have – the mask – has been taken away as an option to mandate.” Mays says the legal action…MORE