AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A bill that would allow the permanent sale of alcohol-to-go at Texas restaurants is headed to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk. The Texas Senate passed HB 1024 by Representative Charlie Geren and Senator Kelly Hancock on Wednesday, making to-go cocktails from restaurants a permanent perk of living in Texas. “Texas restaurants took a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest jobless numbers show the economy is healing. The U.S. Labor Department reports the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 last week to 553,000, the lowest level since the pandemic hit in March of 2020. Jobless claims were down from 566,000 a week earlier. They have fallen…… MORE
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas (AP) – Authorities say a Texas man has died after going into cardiac arrest when he was attacked by an aggressive swarm of bees outside his home. Seventy-year-old Thomas Hicks was mowing his lawn Monday when he was repeatedly stung by the bees outside his home in Breckenridge, about 130 miles west of…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden declares “America is rising anew” as he calls for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the coronavirus pandemic and broadly extend the social safety net on a scale not seen in decades. Biden’s first nationally televised address to Congress on Wednesday raised the stakes for…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Many residents across the metroplex are waking up to smashed windshields and other damage from severe storms that brought a large as baseball-sized hail to the area. In Parker County high winds toppled a mobile home on Enchanted Lakes Drive near Eagle Mountain Lake. Three people were hospitalized and 6 people…… MORE