WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – More than 1.3 million Americans filed first time claims for unemployment benefits last week, showing employers are still laying workers off amid another surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The latest round means that 49.8 million Americans made initial jobless benefits claims since the pandemic hit in March. The resurgence has…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has upheld a prosecutor’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation into hush-money payments to women who claim they had affairs with Trump. The court ruled Thursday in a case in which it heard arguments by telephone in May because of…… MORE
Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. COVID-19 cases soared past 3-million Wednesday, accounting for 25% of the world case count for a country that comprises only 4% of world’s population. In Texas, coronavirus cases soared past the 210-thousand as sister station WFAA-TV report, “If the lone star state were a country, it would be the world’s 11th-most…… MORE
Garland, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Garland Police are looking for several men who allegedly burglarized a home after fooling a woman into believing her water may be contaminated with COVID-19. Police say the woman allowed at least four men into the home to check her water. home security video shows all of the men regular wearing…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state because of the coronavirus pandemic. Billy Joe Wardlow was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Republican Party of Texas responded late Wednesday to the City of Houston’s decision to cancel the party’s convention, which was planned for next week in Houston. Earlier Wednesday, the Houston First Corporation, on behalf of Mayor Sylvester Turner and the City of Houston, terminated the Texas GOP’s binding contract to host…… MORE
LAKE WORTH (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- A Lake Worth nursing home has been hit hard by COVID-19. 63 residents at the Lake Worth nursing home in the 4200 block of Wells Drive are being relocated after nearly half tested positive for Coronavirus. Medstar crews say they are treating every resident as if they had COVID-19 and they will…… MORE
DFW (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- The COVID-19 pandemic has canceled almost all large public gathering events throughout the state. One string of events that has been hit particularly hard is auto shows. Both the Dallas and Fort worth Auto shows have now been canceled, as well as the Texas State Fair Auto Show, which brings in nearly…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The continued spread of COVID-19 in Texas was evident again Wednesday when state and local officials released daily case counts. Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 1,029 additional positive cases, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 29,160, including 426 deaths. The additional 16 deaths reported in Dallas County…… MORE
HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF) – Houston city officials announced Wednesday that they have canceled the Texas GOP’s in-person convention set for next week amid concerns surrounding the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in the city. According to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, the city’s lawyers exercised provisions in the contract that the Texas Republican Party signed to rent…… MORE
