TEXAS CITY – Associated Press (WBAP/KLIF) – A private autopsy on the body of a 22 year old man shot dead at the hands of police appears to show the man died of a single gunshot to his back. 22 year old Joshua Feast died December 9th, reportedly shot by La Marque police officer Jose…… MORE
More Than A Dozen Families Held at Texas Immigration Center Allegedly About to Be Deported
HOUSTON (AP) – Lawyers say the U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm that requires surgery. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley, Texas, detention center diagnosed the girl with a fracture…… MORE
Hundreds of Thousands of Texans Expected to Receive Coronavirus Vaccine By The End of the Month
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
A federal judge has again found the state of Texas in contempt of court.
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
Unemployment in Texas just keeps rising.
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
Texas Nearing 1.4 Million Coronavirus Cases
(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
Second Coronavirus Vaccine Approved by FDA
(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
Local Artist Transforms a Section of the Dallas Love Field Airport Parking Garage into Mavs Themed Space
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- For those parking and traveling out of Dallas Love Field this holiday season, especially Dallas Mavericks fans, there is a wonderful surprise. And just in time for the NBA tip off, too. The airport has opened Garage C with a Dallas Mavericks themed floor designed by local graffiti artist Tex Moton and 5,000…… MORE
Leaders Asking Families not to Mix Households this Holiday Season
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Many health and elected leaders are teaming up to ask people not to mix households this Christmas and the holiday season. Among those include Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins who spoke at a news briefing Friday. He said people can still provide for loved ones who live alone. “The safest thing is…… MORE
What It’s Like To Take The COVID-19 Vaccine
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