(WBAP/KLIF) — Authorities say a suspect being pursued by sheriff’s deputies in West Texas was killed after shooting a deputy in the leg. The Ector County sheriff’s office says deputies were trying to pull over a person wanted on a parole violation when the vehicle with two people inside led deputies on a chase in Odessa. When…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Coronavirus cases keep piling up in North Texas as county health departments combined, Saturday, to report 4,903 new cases. Dallas county showed more than 2,100 additional positive tests, Tarrant county almost 1,300, Collin county nearly 1,100, and Denton listed 423 new COVID-19 cases. 19 North Texans succumbed to the illness, Saturday, including country…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Country music legend Charley Pride died on Saturday, December 12, 2020, from complications of COVID-19. The three-time Grammy winner charted more than thirty #1 hits. He last performed the song “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” on November 11th at the CMA Awards in Nashville. Pride was born a sharecropper’s son in Sledge, Mississippi, on March…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas police are investigating a double homicide that allegedly happened at a Super 8 Motel. Dallas police reportedly responded to a shooting call around 3:42a.m. Sunday at a Super 8 Motel near the frontage road of I-30, Highland Road, and St. Francis Avenue. According to police, when they arrived they found…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Texas is nearing 24,000 reported deaths from the coronavirus as the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 stays above 9,000. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported Friday 9,109 people were hospitalized across the state. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say Texas has had 23,913 COVID-19 related deaths since the pandemic…… MORE