HOUSTON (AP) – The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Nicholas has made landfall along the Texas coast, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast. The hurricane center says the category 1 storm touched down on the eastern part of the Matagorda Peninsula, about 10…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- According to health officials, North Texas Covid-19 hospitalizations appear to be leveling off from the latest surge. The North Texas Medical Society Coalition reports the amount of new positive COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals is declining. On Sunday, Texas reported 111 pediatric COVID-19 patients in North Texas, a slight decrease form last week’s…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- An appeals court has ruled that Fort Worth ISD cannot require face coverings in school at least for the remainder of the semester. The Second Court of Appeals of Texas based in Fort Worth has put in place a temporary injunction preventing the Fort Worth School from requiring face masks until a…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – In response to severe weather threats along the Gulf Coast due to Tropical Storm Nicholas, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas State Operations Center to increase its readiness to Level II beginning Tuesday morning. The storm is forecast to begin impacting the Texas coast on Tuesday. According to the Governor,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 6, the Damon Allen Act, into law at the Texas Pastor Council’s Safer Houston Summit on Monday. The bill recently passed the state legislature and prohibits the release on personal bond of defendants charged with a violent offense or who are charged while released on…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The battle over whether school districts in Texas can implement mask mandates continues to heat up. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit on Friday against Richardson ISD and five other districts over their requirements, which are in defiance of Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates. The district imposed…… MORE
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Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Speaking on his SiriusXM satellite radio show about the recent deaths of several anti-vaxxer radio hosts, Stern said people who won’t get vaccinated are “idiots” and called for vaccinations to be mandatory. “When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get…… MORE
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) – Three Republican presidential prospects have sharply condemned President Joe Biden’s handling of the end of the war in Afghanistan. Attending a political event in Nebraska on Sunday, the three – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Vice President Mike Pence – rebuked the administration’s conduct of…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police say an innocent bystander was shot and seriously wounded in Uptown overnight after a man reportedly opened fire on a moving on McKinney near Boll Street. Police say a man fired at a moving car shot the innocent victim around 2am; the victim was sitting on a curb when they…… MORE
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, after 20 years, not as much. That’s according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that builds on work conducted in 2011, one decade after the pivotal moment in U.S. history.…… MORE
