DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Early voting for the primary runoff election is underway in Texas. Toni Pippins-Poole with the Dallas County Elections Office said they’ve had good voter turnout so far, with over 9,000 people in two days. In comparison to this time in 2018, over 2,000 more people have voted. “This looks promising given the circumstances, the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – New record COVID-19 numbers were reported in North Texas and statewide on Tuesday. Dallas County reported 601 additional cases and 20 deaths. 605 cases and three death were reported in Tarrant County. Denton County reported 105 news cases and 115 confirmed cases were reported in Collin County. The metroplex is approaching 40,000…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Police Association is facilitating COVID-19 testing for its officers amid a recent spike in cases statewide and across the metroplex. Safe Work Health is conducting the tests at DPA Headquarters this week for all DPD Officers and their spouses who wish to be tested. DPA President Mike Mata said Tuesday…… MORE
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation on Tuesday suspending elective surgeries at hospitals in Cameron, Hidalgo, Nueces, and Webb counties to help ensure hospital bed availability for COVID-19 patients in these communities. The proclamation amends the Governor’s previous Executive Order to include these four counties in addition to Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Travis counties. “As…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth businesses can pick up free masks Wednesday July, 1st from 7:30 am to 9:30 am. The masks are funded by a CARES Act grant from the City of Fort Worth. There are 8 distribution locations across the city, including several Fort Worth Library locations. Jarratt Watkins Director of Fort Worth Now says city…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight man to Mel Brooks’ “2000 Year Old Man,” has died. He was 98. Reiner’s assistant…… MORE
Quinlan (WBAP/KLIF) – A small child has been killed by a dog in a semi-rural part of Hunt County. Hunt County deputies say the child slipped, unnoticed, out of the family’s fenced yard on the west side of Lake Tawakoni late Monday morning, and was walking down a gravel road when a neighbor’s dog got…… MORE
PLANO, Texas (AP) — As coronavirus cases skyrocket in Texas, Regina Greenwell showed up to vote Monday bent on minimizing the risks. She wore a mask, which are not required in Texas, where the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than tripled in the last month. She scoped out the line from her car to…… MORE
Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that rejected environmental groups’ challenge to sections of wall the Trump administration is building along the U.S. border with Mexico. The high court on Monday declined to hear an appeal involving construction of 145 miles of steel-bollard walls along the border in Texas,…… MORE
Mansfield (WBAP/KLIF) – A carjacking call Monday afternoon in Mansfield quickly became a murder case. Mansfield Police were called to a shopping center parking lot by a woman who said her car had been stolen from her by a man who leaped out of a nearby parked car, and took hers at gunpoint. When police…… MORE
