DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Former Dallas City Manager George Schrader has died at the age of 89. Schrader served as Dallas city manager from 1973 to 1981. He’s credited with revitalizing Dallas’s downtown business district as well as having an integral hand in the development of DFW Airport, Reunion Arena, the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Arlington police are involved in a new year’s eve shootout. Police were called to Arlington Memorial Hospital to investigate the shooting of a woman who suffered non life-threatening injuries at around 7 pm, Thursday. Officers determined the woman was shot at Las Lomas apartments in Arlington, where an officer was reviewing surveillance footage…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — North Texas has plunged over the 400,000 mark in Coronavirus cases. Dallas county has more than 172,000 positive tests, Tarrant county just eclipsed 150,000, Collin county at more than 43,000, and Denton over 39,000. The Dallas-Fort worth area approached another 6,000 new cases of COVID-19, Thursday. Dallas county health officials saw almost 1,800…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s top health official on Tuesday urged vaccine providers not to hold any doses in reserve and to distribute them as quickly as possible as the state deals with record-breaking numbers of virus patients in hospitals and new cases. In separate statements, Abbott and state…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Snow is blanketing parts of west and central Texas with more than a foot expected in higher elevations. In Odessa, a winter weather shelter was opened for those traveling, which is available through Friday. Odessa city officials say federal guidelines for social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19 will be enforced at…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — U.S. farmers are expected to end the year with higher profits than last year and the best net farm income in seven years. That’s due to the government paying nearly 40% of their income, based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest farm income forecast. Farmers faced challenges in 2020, which included the impact…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A record level of COVID-19 hospitalizations for four days in a row. Texas state health officials reported that statewide hospitals have surpassed 12,000 Coronavirus patients occupying hospital beds, Thursday. The new record high of hospitalizations was spurred by a rise of 1,400 patients in one week. That, coupled with another 15,000 newly confirmed cases…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Police Department is turning the page as 2021 begins. Thursday officially marked the last day on duty for Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall who resigned to pursue other opportunities. Interim Chief Lonzo Anderson takes control of the department until retired San Jose Chief Eddie Garcia takes over in February. Garcia…… MORE
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – The race to vaccinate millions of Americans is off to a slower, messier start than public health officials and leaders of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed had expected. Overworked, underfunded state public health departments are scrambling to patch together plans for administering vaccines. Differences in how counties and hospitals administer…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – First responders in Dallas continue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. According to Dallas-Fire-Rescue, more than 500 first responders have been vaccinated. The operation is expected to continue for up to two weeks. “That’s the plan,” said DFR’S Jason Evans. “It really just depends on how many first responders want to get the…… MORE
