AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Austin would cut 100 police officer vacancies and postpone the graduation of its July cadets as part of a broader effort to overhaul its police department. City Manager Spencer Cronk on Thursday sent a memo to the City Council in which he proposed several changes to how the police department should…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s campaign says six staff members setting up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus. The campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, says that “quarantine procedures” have been initiated and no staff members who tested positive will attend the event. He says no one who…… MORE
$68 million tax breaks may go to put Tesla plant to Austin AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – An Austin-area school district is considering offering more than $60 million in tax incentives to attract a proposed Tesla “gigafactory” to Central Texas. Tesla revealed the Del Valle Independent School District proposal in an application filed Thursday with the…… MORE
Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump says he’ll renew his effort to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States as children. Trump on Friday denounced a Supreme Court ruling that the administration improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2017. Through executive action, Trump…… MORE
Miami (AP) – The Cruise Lines International Association is announcing that ships will not be sailing from U.S. ports throughout the summer, extending a pause put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. The current no-sail order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 14 is set to expire July…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – The organizers of Arlington’s fourth of July parade have decided it will be held this year despite the number of events that are being canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In years past the parade has drawn 75,000 spectators to Arlington streets to watch more than 150 parade entries pass by. Organizers…… MORE
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- As confederate statues across the country are being removed and buildings are being renamed due to associations with the confederacy and slavery, a North Richland Hills high school has decided to change its mascot. The Richland High School mascot will no longer be ‘Rebels’ after the Birdville ISD board of…… MORE
COLLEGE STATION (WBAP/KLIF)- The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents created a special $100 million scholarship fund with the goal of making the A&M System’s 11 universities better reflect the state’s demographics. The scholarship program is to address diversity issues as well as concerns of students who are first-generation and/or from low-income families in…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas restaurants are trying to figure out how to do business with some counties requiring masks and appropriate social distancing. Starting Saturday, Dallas County will require masks be worn by all employees and customers or face a fine up to $500. Dr. Emily Williams Knight is the President and CEO of the Texas…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is denouncing audio posted online by a well-known conservative group. In the recording the podcasters are heard mocking the Governor’s use of a wheel chair. An unedited recording of an Empower Texans podcast posted by The Quorum Report Friday included a conversation between the group’s lead counsel and Vice President…… MORE
