Irving (WBAP/KLIF) – College athletes in the Big 12 Conference, and the SEC now have permission to return to their schools for voluntary workouts. Big 12 presidents and chancellors on Friday okayed the return of football players to their campuses on June 15 for conditioning and workouts. Their schools will have to abide by local…… MORE
Thackerville, OK (WBAP/KLIF) – The Winstar Casino just across the Red River in Oklahoma wants north Texas residents to know it will re-open Wednesday at 25% capacity. The tribe that runs it says preparations have been underway for weeks. Employees and vendors have been through safety training, and will be continuously monitored. Alterations were made…… MORE
Houston (AP) – A judge in Houston has criticized the Trump administration’s handling of detained immigrant children and families, ordering it to give the court detailed information about efforts to quickly release them in the wake of the coronavirus. On Friday, the judge ordered the U.S. government to better explain why it hasn’t released some…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas Supreme Court Justice has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. 63 year old Justice Debra Lehrmann is the highest ranking state official known to have contracted COVID-19. Justice Lehrmann says she and her husband, Greg, tested positive after showing symptoms last week. She insists the two of them have strictly…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – A court in the Dallas suburbs this week held what is believed to be the first American jury trial conducted over online video. The civil proceeding Monday in a Collin County court was an non-binding, abbreviated trial in a lawsuit over a disputed insurance claim. It serves as an experiment in restarting…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County Justices of the Peace have temporarily stopped some eviction proceedings until the middle of June. The moratorium applies to eviction proceedings filed after March 27. The earliest any of those eviction cases will be heard will be June 15. That’s when state rules will allow courts to re-open to hear…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, which checks passengers and luggage at airports unveiled some new security rules Thursday, but the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security indicated more may be coming. Chad Wolf told reporters while inspecting security at Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport, TSA may start checking temperatures and running thermal…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A group of local civil rights and faith leaders has filed a class-action lawsuit seeking an end to what it says are worsening conditions inside the Dallas County Jail. The lawsuit calls for the release of what it says are some 1800 medically vulnerable inmates whose lives are threatened by COVID-19. The…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Republican representative John Ratcliffe will almost certainly become President Trump’s newest Director of National Intelligence today. The U.S. Senate will vote on Ratcliffe’s nomination, and while the vote is expected to fall almost entirely along party lines, that will be enough to confirm him. Ratcliffe was almost guaranteed confirmation when democrats…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – UT Austin has announced on-campus, fall classes will resume as scheduled August 26. The university’s calendar will then continue as previously scheduled until Thanksgiving break. After Thanksgiving the school’s exams and other activities will be conducted remotely. The idea is to head off a wave of COVID-19, that is expected to rebound…… MORE
