(WBAP/KLIF) — A number equivalent to 3.2% of the Texas population has tested positive for COVID-19. After conducting more than 8.3 million tests, almost 917,000 have come back positive. Nearly 18,200 have resulted in deaths, a 2% mortality rate. State health officials reported more than 7,200 newly confirmed positive tests, Tuesday, with 97 additional deaths. Dallas…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Governor Greg Abbott is taking the ruling related to 127,000 drive-thru ballots in Harris County in stride after a federal judge ruled Monday the votes would be counted. The method of voting was adopted as a safety precaution amid the coronavirus pandemic. The ruling is the result of an effort by…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas is unusually shaky ground for Republicans as voters head to the polls in America’s biggest red state. The high stakes in Texas ripple beyond whether President Donald Trump is genuinely at risk of becoming the first Republican presidential nominee since 1976 to lose the Lone Star State. Democrats were also…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has surpassed California in recording the highest number of positive coronavirus tests in the U.S. so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation, the data from Sunday — the most recent available — says that there have been 938,503 cases in Texas, the…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas GOP Chair Rodney Anderson and Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Carol Donovan have issued a joint statement calling on residents remain calm during the vote counting process. In the statement Anderson and Donovan say, “It is important to remember Texas law allows mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day and still…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban talked up his support for Joe Biden 2020. Cuban told ‘ The Athletic’ sports writer Sam Amick, that the COVID pandemic fueled his decision: Cuban said, among other things, “You always have to realize that without leadership, there’s instability and instability is the worst thing that can…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A number of North Texas businesses are playing it safe with talk of potential unrest after Tuesday’s election results are tallied. Stores and restaurants in Downtown Dallas, Victory Park, and parts of Fort Worth are boarding up windows in case of looting or riots. “We’re using a mallet and screwing them up…… MORE
HARRIS COUNTY(WBAP/KLIF)- About 127,000 drive-in votes in Harris County will be counted, per a ruling by a federal judge. A group of Republicans challenged the voting method, claiming it violates the U.S constitution, but the argument didn’t hold up in court. Governor Abbott said it was very unlikely that a court would throw out ballots…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- The Tarrant County Elections Office hired additional ballot board members after facing a shortage of workers available. “This was due to a variety of reasons. Most of them expressed concerns about the pandemic and having to work with multiple others around them and certain difficulties to achieve social distancing especially the work…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) — Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have decided to not make public how they voted this year. Bush spokesman Freddy Ford tells the Dallas Morning News that the Texas residents are keeping their votes to themselves. In 2016, Bush and his wife selected ”none of the above” on their…… MORE
