(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas taxpayers are spending tens of millions of dollars to keep a toddler alive. Doctors have testified that Tinslee Lewis has no chance of recovery and every day she’s kept alive is tortuous for her. Cook Children’s Hospital is now pushing for a trial date to decide the matter. State Medicaid has spent more…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The city of Dallas plans to deliver COVID vaccines to local neighborhoods. Dallas mayor Eric Johnson unveiled the “Mayor’s Neighborhood Vaccine Initiative”, Thursday, to distribute COVID-19 vaccinations during neighborhood pop-up events. The city, along with the Caring Foundation of Texas’ “Care Van Program” will co-host three vaccination events in coming days. The first…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- North Texans are assessing storm damage from Wednesday night’s storm. Chris Pilcic with State Farm says they’ve already seen an influx in customers who have been affected. “More than 1,000 claims have been filed already in DFW, specifically in North Fort Worth and Keller who were hit particularly hard in high concentrations,” said Pilcic. Pilcic…… MORE
HAZLET (WBAP/KLIF)- Transportation leaders from across Tarrant County celebrate the groundbreaking of Haslet Parkway, a four-lane east-west thoroughfare that will enhance the distribution of goods while providing better mobility to residents of the fast-growing area. The roadway is part of the $64.4 million AllianceTexas/Haslet Accessibility Project, which received a $20 million Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant…… MORE
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF)- Irving police say a person whose body was recovered from Lago De Claire in a Las Colinas neighborhood may be a woman who was reported missing earlier this week. Officer Robert Reeves with the Irving Police Department said police had been searching the area over the past two days looking for 38-year-old Lashun Massey who…… MORE
GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF) – Grapevine Police are asking for the public’s help obtaining information about an injury that occurred at Great Wolf Lodge. According to Police, on Saturday, April 10, between 1:30pm and 2:30pm, a 4-year-old girl suffered serious head trauma inside the waterpark. Her father found the child injured at the bottom of the interactive…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A bill that would allow the permanent sale of alcohol-to-go at Texas restaurants is headed to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk. The Texas Senate passed HB 1024 by Representative Charlie Geren and Senator Kelly Hancock on Wednesday, making to-go cocktails from restaurants a permanent perk of living in Texas. “Texas restaurants took a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest jobless numbers show the economy is healing. The U.S. Labor Department reports the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 last week to 553,000, the lowest level since the pandemic hit in March of 2020. Jobless claims were down from 566,000 a week earlier. They have fallen…… MORE
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas (AP) – Authorities say a Texas man has died after going into cardiac arrest when he was attacked by an aggressive swarm of bees outside his home. Seventy-year-old Thomas Hicks was mowing his lawn Monday when he was repeatedly stung by the bees outside his home in Breckenridge, about 130 miles west of…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden declares “America is rising anew” as he calls for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the coronavirus pandemic and broadly extend the social safety net on a scale not seen in decades. Biden’s first nationally televised address to Congress on Wednesday raised the stakes for…… MORE
