DENTON (WBAP/KLIF)- In just under 10 hours, crews were able to remove the 102-year-old granite Confederate Memorial on the property around the Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square. The Confederate Memorial, removed for public safety reasons, is now in county storage. In the coming months, a committee will reconvene to review options on where to display the Confederate Memorial.…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an Executive Order on Thursday to ensure hospital bed availability for COVID-19 patients as Texas faces an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The Governor’s order suspends elective surgeries at hospitals in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Travis counties. Under this order, the Governor directs all hospitals in these counties…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – On Tuesday, June 23, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested a suspect in connection with the vandalism and damage caused to the Texas State Capitol during a protest on Saturday, May 30. According to DPS, a number of protestors intentionally damaged the Texas State Capitol building, monuments and fixtures, as…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Volunteers are needed to help paint a community-led anti-racism message on Main Street in Downtown Fort Worth this weekend. The phrase “END RACISM NOW” will be painted June 26-27 in the 800 block of Main Street, just north of the Fort Worth Convention Center. The location was selected because it is near a…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- Tarrant County Commissioners passed a new ordinance that requires everyone to wear a mask in Tarrant County establishments. This will go into affect on June 26th at 6 PM and will through August 3rd at 6 AM. Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley said if things get better they can pull the restrictions,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott is temporarily halting any additional openings across the state following an increase in COVID-19 cases. In a statement Abbott says businesses that are permitted to open under the previous phases can continue to operate at the designated occupancy levels. “As we experience an increase in both positive COVID-19…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — One North Texas family is living a COVID-19 nightmare after a birthday party. What started out as a joyous celebration of a 30th birthday in may has turned into one family member hanging on for life. 25 members of the Barbosa family gathered for a birthday party when a nephew infected with Coronavirus…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal appeals court has ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbiua said in a 2-1 ruling that the Justice Department’s decision to abandon the case against Flynn settles the matter,…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – A Plano Police officer is hospitalized following a stabbing and shooting. According to the department’s David Tilley the officer was responding to a traffic crash when one of the people involved in the crash stabbed the officer in the shoulder or arm and then went to stab the person in the other…… MORE
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Coronavirus cases are climbing rapidly among young adults in a number of states where bars, stores and restaurants have reopened — a disturbing generational shift that not only puts them in greater peril than many realize but poses an even bigger danger to older people who cross their paths. In…… MORE
