AP – A delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures. The Census Bureau has said redistricting data that was supposed to be provided to states by the end of March won’t be ready until August or September. That’s after the deadline to…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Texas is set to begin making COVID-19 vaccines available to anyone who wants one. On Monday, Texas will become the most populous U.S. state to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all adults. The state has nearly 30 million residents. This will come more than a month before President Joe Biden’s goal of…… MORE
Houston (AP) – The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenagers. That alarms child welfare experts who say the waiver compromises safety. The FBI fingerprint checks use criminal databases not accessible to the public and can overcome…… MORE
Mexia (WBAP/KLIF) – The suspect wanted for the Friday night shooting of a Texas State Trooper apparently killed himself Saturday evening when he was surrounded in a house he was hiding in near Mexia. 36 year old DeArthur Pinson reportedly shot trooper Chad Walker when Walker pulled over to the side of highway 84 to…… MORE
DPS -WBAP/KLIF – Texas police agencies are looking for a suspect described as armed and dangerous, believed to have fled into the woods alongside Highway 84 near Mexia, Central Texas, after shooting a Texas State Trooper in the head and abdomen around dinnertime Friday night. The Texas State Troopers Association says it’s Trooper, Chad Walker,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Beginning Monday, all Texans ages 16 and older will be eligible to receive a vaccine. Additionally, Texas is scheduled to receive over 1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine for the coming week. The state has already administered more than 10 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s an increase of…… MORE
SLIDELL, La. (AP) – Amazon is expected to break ground on a new delivery station in Slidell within the next few weeks. WGNO-TV reports that the facility is expected to create hundreds of new jobs in the New Orleans suburb. Slidell Mayor Greg Cromer said that he kept the plan quiet for about 15 months…… MORE
Roma (AP) – A small border town in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley has become the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children enter the United States to seek asylum. Within an hour of darkness Wednesday, about 100 people have been ferried in rafts across the Rio Grande and into the…… MORE
Lubbock (AP) – Federal officials have charged a man accused of forcing off a West Texas road a National Guard convoy transporting COVID-19 vaccines, then holding 11 Guard soldiers at gunpoint. Federal prosecutors say 66 year old Larry Harris of Willcox, Arizona, is charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. Police say…… MORE
Mexia (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas state trooper was shot late Friday night on a highway just outside Mexia, 45 miles or so south of Dallas. The unidentified trooper was rushed to a Waco hospital in critical condition. A manhunt is underway for his assailant, identified as 36 year old DeArthur Pinson Jr. DPS describes Pinson…… MORE
