AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott says more than 1 million Texans are expected to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by the end of the month. Speaking Thursday at a press conference in Austin, the governor said 224,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine will be delivered this week in Texas. Next week, the number is expected…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Judge Janis Graham Jack found the state in contempt for exposing thousands of children in its foster care program to what she says is “an unreasonable risk of serious harm.” Judge Jack is threatening to levy fines of $75,000 a day beginning January 3rd unless she gets an electronic readout of each…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas unemployment rate increased to 8.1% in November, from 6.9% in October. That means Texas is well above the national average, and has been for more than four months. It also means more than 290,000 DFW residents are out of work, and looking. The problem for them is there are now…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The state of Texas is nearing 1.4 million cases of COVID-19 as a second vaccine is about to be shipped. The Texas death toll is closing in on 25,000. North Texas is just one death shy of 3,000 lives taken by the pandemic. Dallas county has over 1,400 fatalities, Tarrant county almost 1,100, while…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — F-D-A Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn announced another approval in the fight against the Coronavirus… the Moderna brand COVID 19 vaccine. Hahn says distribution will be swift. This comes about one week after the F-D-A approval of the Pfizer -BioNTech vaccine. The emergency use authorization allows the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed in the…… MORE