(WBAP/KLIF) — A Texas based airline is boosting wages to lure new employees. Southwest Airlines will increase it’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and raise the pay of thousand of airport workers. According to Fox’s Hilary Barsky, the move is meant to retain current employees and attract new ones. The Dallas-based carrier says that…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)-Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that will allow for the study of psychedelics as a treatment for PTSD in veterans. Under the new psychedelics law, Texas will study potential benefits and risks of magic mushrooms, ketamine and MDMA- but it will be controlled dosing. “A lot of people think of ketamine…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Jason Kidd is coming back to Dallas again, this time to replace the coach he won a championship with as the point guard of the Mavericks 10 years ago. A person with direct knowledge of the agreement tells The Associated Press Kidd and the Mavericks have agreed on a contract. The person…… MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations. The punishment handed out Friday fell short of the 30 years that…… MORE
EL PASO, TEXAS (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden administration has made progress tackling a migration spike that’s drawn fire from Republicans and made fellow Democrats uncomfortable. Her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border as head of the Biden administration’s response is being closely watched on all sides. Visiting El Paso, Harris…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas House Democrats said Friday that they have officially filed a petition with the Texas Supreme Court to stop Governor Greg Abbott’s veto of a line in the budget, ultimately preventing them from being paid. The Governor’s move came after Democrats killed a Republican led voting measure by walking off the House floor.…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is suing Georgia over the state’s new election law and alleging that Republican state lawmakers rushed through a sweeping overhaul with an intent to deny Black voters equal access to the ballot. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the lawsuit on Friday, two weeks after he said his department would…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – After a weeks-long investigation, Austin Police arrested a 19-year-old suspect in the deadly mass shooting that claimed the life of one person and injured thirteen others. It happened in the popular 6th Street entertainment district on June 12th. The Travis County District Attorneys Office said the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force took…… MORE
Arlington, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Arlington Police Department, along with detectives assigned to the US Marshals Service North Texas Fugitive Task Force arrested 18-year old Cameron Lavon Stephens without incident overnight in connection with a fatal shooting near Hurricane Harbor Wednesday night. Stephens was located in the 2700 block of Harverwood Lane near the Dallas…… MORE
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to a request from GOP governors to help fight crime at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Thursday. A statement from the Iowa Department of Public Safety did not say…… MORE
