Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has paid out $1.7 billion dollars in unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic; some of those funds are part of the federal stimulus package. With some $900-million dollars left in TWC’s bank account, state officials are looking at opens to replenish the fund before it’s depleted? Texas…… MORE
EL PASO, Teas (AP) – A hospital official says that a man shot in the Aug. 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart has died after months in the hospital. Guillermo ‘Memo’ Garcia was fundraising for his daughter’s soccer team in front of the Walmart when he was shot nine months ago. His…… MORE
EL PASO, Teas (AP) – A hospital official says that a man shot in the Aug. 3 attack targeting Latinos in an El Paso Walmart has died after months in the hospital. Guillermo ‘Memo’ Garcia was fundraising for his daughter’s soccer team in front of the Walmart when he was shot nine months ago. His…… MORE
TEMPLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a Bell County, Texas, deputy sheriff was killed early Sunday when he was struck by a vehicle while helping a neighboring county’s sheriffs department try to stop another vehicle it had pursued into Bell County on Interstate 35. Deputy John Andrew Rhoden, 31, was killed when he was struck…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – White House strategists are planning to shift President Donald Trump’s public focus from the coronavirus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. That will put him in the position of looking forward to more promising times, Aides intend to put him in more controlled settings…… MORE
DENTON, Texas (AP) – A man sought as a suspect in the shooting of his girlfriend was shot dead by deputies outside a North Texas travel center. The incident happened around midday outside Buc-ee’s on Denton’s southeastern outskirts, about 35 miles northwest of Dallas. Denton County sheriff’s deputies tracked 53-year-old Marlon Aaron Bonds to the…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Federal prosecutors have obtained a permanent injunction against a Dallas-based wellness center that had been marketing a purported “ozone therapy” as a treatment for the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay issued the order Friday against the Purity Health and Wellness Center and one of its principals,…… MORE
– DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Dallas Police say they are looking for a 19 year old white man as a suspect in the murder of Kaleb Simpson at the Summerwood Cove Apartments parking lot on March 22nd. Officials say suspect Julian Mekai Sesalem has an active murder warrant issued for the offence. Kaleb Simpson…… MORE
Atlanta (AP) – As more states push to reopen their economies, many are falling short on one of the federal government’s essential criteria for doing so – having an efficient system to track people who have been physically near a person infected with the coronavius. A review by The Associated Press finds a patchwork of…… MORE
Washington (AP) – The U.S. Navy reports the number of sailors aboard the USS Kidd confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus has nearly doubled, rising from 18 to 33. The destroyer with its crew of 350 are off the Pacific coast of South America. Its current mission is related to U.S. counter-drug activities.…… MORE
