LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) – President Donald Trump says he is heading to Louisiana and Texas after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the states. Trump’s Saturday visit comes two days after the Category 4 storm smashed into Lake Charles, Louisiana. The mayor of the city of 80,000 warns it could be weeks before water…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Five people have been wounded, one critically, in a shooting in the Deep Ellum district on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas. A statement issued by police said the shooting was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Friday on Elm Street near Good-Latimer Expressway. Officers found three men and a woman wounded at…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Hurricane Laura is testing an already stretched Federal Emergency Management Agency in what is shaping up to be an unprecedentedly disastrous year. FEMA has never faced a year like 2020. COVID-19 has prompted emergency declarations for all U.S. states and territories for the first time. The agency has deployed personnel to help…… MORE
Houston (AP) – New data shows the U.S. government has detained children at several major hotel chains during the coronavirus pandemic instead of transferring them to government-funded shelters. The figures released Friday show that since March, the Trump administration has used hotels to hold at least 660 children, most unaccompanied by a parent, before expelling…… MORE
Hemphill, Texas (AP) – Texas recorded four deaths Friday linked to Hurricane Laura, which roared ashore along the Louisiana border the day before. Sabine County Emergency Management Coordinator Kerwin Lloyd identified the first death as David Murrell, 54, in East Texas. Murrell died Thursday when a tree fell on his mobile home Hemphill. Officials in…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- The actor that brought the super hero Black Panther to life has died. Chadwick Boseman, who most famously played Jackie Robinson and Black Panther, died Friday night at the age of 43 after a four year fight with colon cancer. pic.twitter.com/aZ2JzDf5ai — Chadwick Boseman (@chadwickboseman) August 29, 2020 Boseman died at…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – Bars across Texas plan to defy statewide orders that require them to be closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Texas bars have been closed for months but Governor Greg Abbott maintains that opening them right now isn’t safe. Bar owners are hurting. Many of them are struggling to keep their businesses afloat.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – In the wake of this week’s boycott of Game 6 of the Dallas Mavericks vs. Los Angeles Clippers first-round playoff series, the Mavericks pledged “7 days of action” to combat racial injustices. According to the team, the effort is intended to lead change and invest in organizations fighting racial disparities and inequities…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Bar owners received some relief from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission this week amid ongoing closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The TABC voted this week to pave the way for more bars to reopen and operate as restaurants. The new rules struck down a requirement for an on-site kitchen and…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden as a hapless career politician who will endanger Americans’ safety as he accepted his party’s renomination on the South Lawn of the White House. While the coronavirus kills 1,000 Americans each day, Trump defied his own administration’s pandemic guidelines to speak for more than an hour…… MORE
