DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox in 2022, on Tuesday. According to Dallas County Health and Human Services, the agency is investigating a monkeypox case in a Dallas County resident with international travel in the past month to a country that has also reported monkeypox cases. Preliminary test results were…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF)- Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is commenting on a request of him by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick surrounding school safety. Lt. Gov Patrick announced last Friday that he is asking Phelan to join the Senate members of the Legislative Budget Board in a budget execution letter to move $50 million to either the…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter on Tuesday directing Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Commissioner Harrison Keller to expand and accelerate their efforts to promote the ability to report suspicious activity known to students, staff, and families…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Downtown Dallas, Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of its 2022 comprehensive Public Safety Summer Operations Plan. The initiative addresses both quality of life and public safety challenges as thousands more workers return to the urban core and the convention and tourism industry reports a return to pre-pandemic levels. “Our city center remains…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The White House announced Monday the fifth emergency flight of baby formula from Europe to the United States will take place Thursday. “Operation Fly Formula” will bring 110,000 pounds of Nestle infant formula from Cologne, Germany to Fort Worth. The shipment will be the equivalent of 1.6 million 8 ounce bottles. After…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The presiding federal judge in a long-running lawsuit against Texas’ foster care program says she may slap the state with huge fines for contempt of court. Judge Janis Graham Jack didn’t say how large those fines might be. but she did say they would be large enough that the state might want…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The operator of Texas’ power grid is expecting record-breaking electricity demand this week. With temperatures expected to hit 100 degrees or more each day through the end of the week, ERCOT expects total daily demand to rise above 75,000 megawatts. Such daily peaks would all be above the previous daily record of…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The murder trial for one of three men accused in the murder of Fort Worth Police Officer Garrett Hull is underway. Hull was shot and killed during a an investigation into a string of bar robberies in September 2018. The defendant, Timothy Huff, is not accused of being the…… MORE
Associated Press The former top leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and other members have been charged with seditious conspiracy for what federal prosecutors say was a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, and…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Texas Department of Public Safety is hoping its latest effort to crack down on speeding drivers will help curb the growing number of annual fatalities. According to TX-DOT, there more than 163,000 speed-related crashes in 2021 and 1,532 of them were fatal. The initiative is called “Operation Slowdown.” TX-DOT…… MORE
