Weatherford, TX (WBAP/KLIF) -Parker County Commissioners have unanimously voted to keep the statue of Confederate soldiers on its courthouse lawn. The vote was 5-0. Parker County Commissioners first left the decision up to the Daughters of the Confederacy, because they own the statue. President of the Texas Chapter for the Daughters of the Confederacy Dorothy…… MORE
ATLANTA (AP) – John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and fight injustice. The private funeral occurred Thursday in Atlanta after nearly a week of mourning that began in his birthplace in Alabama. Lewis died July 17…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas announced this week a new program to support students and parents when school resumes amid the coronavirus pandemic. As schools across North Texas are impacted by COVID-19, many school districts will be offering remote learning to begin the school year. The YMCA Learning Academy is offering a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas Police Officer has been charged with uploading sexually explicit images of children using the City of Dallas’ employee internet, according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Erin Nealy Cox. Daniel Lee Collins, a 35-year-old senior corporal assigned to DPD’s Auto Theft Unit, was charged via criminal complaint with…… MORE
MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP) – Fire officials announced a contractor is to blame after natural gas pipeline erupted in flames near Houston. The accident happened when the contractor cut the line owned by Lone Star NGL Wednesday in Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east of Houston. It’s an area dotted by natural gas facilities. No…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is for the first time floating a “delay” to November’s presidential election. But the dates of presidential elections are set in federal law, and cannot be changed except by Congress. On Thursday morning, Trump tweeted: “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain had died after a month-long battle with coronavirus at an Atlanta-area hospital. It’s not clear when or where Cain was infected, but he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He did not meet with Trump there,…… MORE
Chicago, IL (WBAP/KLIF) – A new novel coronavirus study found that 78-percent of recovered patients had permanent heart damage. Findings of the University Hospital-Frankfurt study was published in the JAMA Cardiology Journal, a publication of the American Heart Association on Monday. The study took a look at the cardiovascular MRI’s of 100 people who had…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 1.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, further evidence of the devastation the coronavirus outbreak has unleashed on the U.S. economy. The continuing wave of job cuts is occurring against the backdrop of a spike in virus cases that has led many states to halt plans to…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – An attorney for J.C. Penney told a bankruptcy judge Wednesday that the company is going forward with a sale of its business and expects the deal to be completed by the fall. The potential sale comes as Plano, Texas-based Penney is looking at three bidders, which the company hasn’t named. During…… MORE
