Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News
Funds Available For Displaced Texas Workers and Colleges Students to ‘Re-skill’ or ‘Up-skill’
Austin, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – In an effort to help displaced workers in the Texas, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently doled out over $18-million to 49 colleges and universities ac...
Dec 21, 2020
Massive Delays for Christmas Package Deliveries
(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Postal Service has acknowledged that it’s having problems with the unprecedented amount of packages being mailed during t...
Dec 21, 2020
FTW Man Released From Prison After Serving Quadruple DWI Fatality Sentence
Parker County, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth man convicted in the quadruple intoxication manslaughter deaths of 4 Brock High School students in 1998 was released from prison last month, accordin...
Dec 21, 2020
Zekeless Cowboys Beat the 49ers, Still In Playoffs Hunt
Photo courtesy WFAA ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Tony Pollard and the Dallas Cowboys gave Ezekiel Elliott a reason to come back next week after the two-time rushing champion missed a game because of injury...
Dec 21, 2020
Dallas County Reports Hundreds of New Coronavirus Cases in One Day (Sunday)
(FDA) DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas County Reported More than eleven hundred new positive coronavirus cases on Sunday, with 30 additional deaths. So far, more than 1400 Dallas County resident...
Dec 20, 2020
Lawmakers Reach Agreement: COVID-19 Relief Money On The Way For Many Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) – Top negotiators in Congress have sealed a deal on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package. Lawmakers announced the agreement Sunday after days of negotiations. T...
Dec 20, 2020
New and More Transmissible Covid 19 Virus in the UK and South Africa; Europe Responds
PHOTO: WFAA ASSOCIATED PRESS – (WBAP/KLIF) – A flurry of activity is underway at European borders now, as a new and much more highly transmissible strain of Covid 19 is ravaging Southern E...
Dec 20, 2020
The Pandemic Remains Out Of Control In Texas
Houston (AP) – Texas has surpassed 25,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the second highest total in the country. State health officials reported 272 new deaths on Saturday linked to COVI...
Dec 20, 2020
Special Election Fills State Senate Seat
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A state legislator has won a state senate runoff against Dallas hair salon owner Shelley Luther. Representative Drew Springer who was backed by Governor Greg Abbott defeated...
Dec 20, 2020
California’s Semifinal College Football Bowl Game Will Be Played In Texas.
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – California state health restrictions won’t allow the Rose Bowl to have fans attend the game in person during that state’s resurgent pandemic, so the organizer...
Dec 20, 2020
