AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Engineers from Walmart and Microsoft will work together in Texas to help the Arkansas-based retail giant provide more convenient ways for customers to shop. Walmart on Monday announced plans to expand its technology center in Austin in a move to help associates make better use of digital data and improve operations.…… MORE
WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department will be in Tarrant County Tuesday to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws on Election Day. According to a statement released Monday, Tarrant is one of 35 jurisdictions in 19 states slated for federal oversight. “Voting rights are constitutional rights and they’re part…… MORE
UVALDE (WBAP/KLIF News) – A South Texas couple was killed in a helicopter crash just hours after they were married in Uvalde over the weekend. According to KTRK TV in Houston, Will Byler and Bailee Ackerman were married at a family ranch Saturday night. The newlyweds were seniors at Sam Houston State University, according to the…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Area Rapid Transit is offering free rides to voters from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday November 6th. Riders can ride the DART bus, light rail, Paratransit or the Trinity Railway Express commuter rail between CentrePort/DFW Airport station and Union station. To get the free ride you will…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – After just over a year since bids were turned in, Amazon has reportedly zeroed in on a small handful of cities as finalists for its second headquarters and Dallas is one of them. According to the Wall Street Journal, joining Dallas on the most recent shortlist are New York City and Crystal…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O’Rourke probably have bright political futures, perhaps even plausible White House aspirations, regardless of which one wins their high-profile Texas Senate race. Around Labor Day, when polls showed onetime punk rocker O’Rourke closing in on flipping a Senate seat in the country’s largest Republican-dominated state,…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Republican congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw has criticized comedian Pete Davidson for poking fun at the eye patch he wears as a result of being injured in combat. Crenshaw was badly wounded serving in Afghanistan as a Navy Seal. Davidson suggested during the Saturday Night Live’s ‘Weekend Update” segment that Dan Crenshaw…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Memorabilia that belonged to the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has fetched more than $7.4 million at auction. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says the item that sold for the highest price, $468,500, at Saturday’s auction was Armstrong’s spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle. Also sold…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Officials say one racing fan has died and another was critically hurt after being found suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in their converted bus at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday identified the man who died as 49-year-old Cameron Hickman of Flower…… MORE
Grand Prairie (WBAP/KLIF) – Grand Prairie Police have arrested an 18 year old hit-and-run suspect for allegedly causing as accident that killed a pedestrian. Coreon Jackson was taken into custody at a motel in Mesquite. Grand Prairie investigators say he lost control of his car in the 2300 block of W.E. Roberts Street, and ran…… MORE
