AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott, on Wednesday, ordered all Texas state agencies to ban the use of TikTok on any government-issued devices as the threat of the Chinese Communist Party gaining access to critical U.S. information and infrastructure continues to grow. In letters to leaders in the legislature and state agency leaders, the…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – Prosecutors rested their case in the trial for former Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean on Wednesday inside a Tarrant County courtroom. Dean is accused of shooting Atatiana Jefferson to death inside her family’s home in 2019. Day 3 of testimony brought forensic analysis from investigators and the medical examiner. The…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Medical experts are warning of a “winter wave” of COVID cases in North Texas. According to the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, COVID-19 lab positivity for both symptomatic and asymptomatic testing increased to over 10% each showing COVID-19 hospitalizations jumped week-over-week by over 106% across Dallas County and 83% in the broader…… MORE
Paradise, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Remembrances vigils continue for little Athena Strand who was kidnapped and killed in rural Paradise on December 30. Last night at the First Baptist Church Cottondale thousands gathered for candlelight vigil, where Athena’s mother Maitlyn Gandy made her first public comments. She thanked the community for their overwhelming support and said,…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF News ) – Senator Ted Cruz is asking for prayers and privacy after Houston police and medical personnel were called to his home in River Oaks Tuesday night in response to a call about a 14-year-old girl who suffered self-inflicted stab wounds to her arms. While police did not confirm if the girl was…… MORE
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s current term and capping an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year. With Warnock’s second runoff victory…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — After a five-year wait, a fired Southwest Airlines flight attendant has her day in court. A jury awarded Charlene Carter $5.3 million in July after the Dallas-based airline fired her in 2017 for criticizing her union president who supported abortion rights. Now, a Federal judge has reduced that amount to fit within federal…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The U.S. Army has chosen a North Texas company to replace the Blackhawk helicopter. Bell-Textron incorporated was awarded a $1.3 billion contract to build the new V-280 Valor, an advanced tilt-rotor, assault helicopter that will phase out the Apache and Blackhawk choppers by 2030. Representative Kay Granger is republican leader of the House…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump’s company has been convicted of tax fraud for a scheme by top executives to avoid paying personal income taxes on perks such as apartments and luxury cars. As punishment, the Trump Organization could be fined up to $1.6 million. The guilty verdict Tuesday day came on the second day…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Children’s Health hosted a groundbreaking ceremony this week to celebrate the start of construction on the state’s newest psychiatric hospital in Dallas, The Texas Behavioral Health Center at UT Southwestern. The project is part of the state’s comprehensive plan to…… MORE
