DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- The debate on if the government should be allowed to implement mask requirements rages on in Texas as the state halts its reopening due to a massive spike in confirmed cases and hospitalizations. Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics that if Texans want to see businesses re open…… MORE
WACO, Texas (AP) – Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past. The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded…… MORE
Zavalla (WBAP/KLIF) – A 40 year old pilot was killed early Saturday morning when his small plane crashed as he tried to land on a private runway in East Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says James VanLue of Tomball was killed in the crash about 2:00 AM, but no one happened upon the…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Restaurant Association is celebrating the extension from Governor Greg Abbott on allowing mixed drinks under the alcohol-to-go waiver. TRA President Dr. Emily Williams Knight says this is another helpful moment during the struggles in the coronavirus pandemic. “If you’re a restaurant that now that has a lot of bottles that…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Another record breaking day with Dallas County reporting 561 new COVID 19 cases and seven deaths. “It is imperative that we all wear our masks outside of our homes and around other people,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted Saturday afternoon. “It’s up to all of us to flatten the curve and…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says Governor Greg Abbott’s action to close bars amid a rise in COVID-19 cases is simply a pause in the reopening process. Patrick on Fox News said state leaders must try to protect lives while also protecting a person’s liberty. “Right now, let’s take a week or ten…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Without major changes in almost every state, a national police misconduct database like what the White House and Congress have proposed after George Floyd’s death would fail to account for thousands of problem officers. The outlook for a policing bill is newly uncertain after Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican proposal…… MORE
WACO, Texas (AP) – Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past. The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Health officials say about 300 teenagers were exposed to the coronavirus after a massive party in a Central Texas suburb last weekend. Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox says the party, called Pongfest, was attended by local high school students in the posh lakeside Austin suburb. According to Austin Public Health officials, some…… MORE
San Francisco (AP) – A federal appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of military money to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in two opinions Friday that diverting $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build the wall illegally sidesteps…… MORE
