WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress has overridden President Donald Trump’s veto of a defense policy bill, a first by lawmakers since he took office nearly four years ago. In an extraordinary New Year’s Day session, the Republican-controlled Senate easily turned aside the veto. Lawmakers dismissed Trump’s objections to the $740 billion bill and handed the president…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Former Dallas City Manager George Schrader has died at the age of 89. Schrader served as Dallas city manager from 1973 to 1981. He’s credited with revitalizing Dallas’s downtown business district as well as having an integral hand in the development of DFW Airport, Reunion Arena, the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Arlington police are involved in a new year’s eve shootout. Police were called to Arlington Memorial Hospital to investigate the shooting of a woman who suffered non life-threatening injuries at around 7 pm, Thursday. Officers determined the woman was shot at Las Lomas apartments in Arlington, where an officer was reviewing surveillance footage…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — North Texas has plunged over the 400,000 mark in Coronavirus cases. Dallas county has more than 172,000 positive tests, Tarrant county just eclipsed 150,000, Collin county at more than 43,000, and Denton over 39,000. The Dallas-Fort worth area approached another 6,000 new cases of COVID-19, Thursday. Dallas county health officials saw almost 1,800…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s top health official on Tuesday urged vaccine providers not to hold any doses in reserve and to distribute them as quickly as possible as the state deals with record-breaking numbers of virus patients in hospitals and new cases. In separate statements, Abbott and state…… MORE