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A NTX Charity Needs a Big Truck & Driver for ‘Massive’ Christmas Wish

A NTX Charity Needs a Big Truck & Driver for ‘Massive’ Christmas Wish

Cedar Hill, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas children’s charity has collected hundreds of thousands of Christmas toys for Texas kids Dallas Duvall with Diamond Wishes Children’s Charities grants wishes to terminal and severely challenged kids and families around the world The organization is also working with a Cedar Hill police officer to bring Christmas to…MORE

Trump Lawyer Giuliani Hospitalized With Covid-19

Trump Lawyer Giuliani Hospitalized With Covid-19

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani  has tested positive for coronavirus. Giuliani was exhibiting some symptoms and was admitted on Sunday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. The 76-year-old former New York mayor…MORE

GA Gov. Kemp Refuses Trump Request; HHS Secretary Corrected by Fox News’ Chris Wallace [WATCH]

GA Gov. Kemp Refuses Trump Request; HHS Secretary Corrected by Fox News’ Chris Wallace [WATCH]

ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia’s Republican governor has again told state Republican lawmakers that he won’t call a special session to overturn Georgia’s election results. Four Republican state senators have launched a petition to force Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to call lawmakers together so they could appoint 16 presidential electors who will support Republican President Donald…MORE

Texas Officials Disagree on Whether a Mountain Lion Killed Man

Texas Officials Disagree on Whether a Mountain Lion Killed Man

LIPAN, Texas (AP) — Texas wildlife officials on Sunday said there was no evidence that a mountain lion or any wild animal killed a 28-year-old man, disputing a medical examiner’s preliminary finding in the case. “It appears we have two conflicting reports from two agencies that are experts in their field,” the Hood County Sheriff’s…MORE

Allen ISD Sending Struggling Students Back To The Classroom

Allen ISD Sending Struggling Students Back To The Classroom

ALLEN(WBAP/KLIF)- One of the largest school districts in Collin County is asking struggling students to return to campus from online classes at home. Allen ISD is sending some of its 20,000 students, including secondary students who are not meeting attendance or grade report guidelines back to class. Some parents say that instead of exposing their…MORE

Wrong Way Driver Critically Injures Irving Firefighter

Wrong Way Driver Critically Injures Irving Firefighter

Irving (WBAP/KLIF) – An Irving firefighter was seriously injured early Sunday morning when he was run down by a drunk driver going the wrong way on Highway 183. It happened a little before 4:00 AM. The firefighter was a member of a police and fire crew that was dealing with a five vehicle accident on…MORE

A Sunday morning killing in Red Bird

A Sunday morning killing in Red Bird

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A 32 year old man was shot to death early this (Sunday) morning in Dallas’ Red Bird area. Police found Kiston Johnson Junior’s body in the driver’s seat of a vehicle about 1:00 AM. He had been shot several times, and died shortly after he was transported to a hospital. So far…MORE

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Decrease

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Decrease

Austin (AP) – The number of people in Texas hospitalized with the coronavirus has declined after topping 9,000 this week for the first time since summer. The Texas health department on Saturday reported 8,916 hospitalizations, down from 9,015 reported Friday. The department reported 11,672 new cases and 247 additional deaths for totals of 1.24 million…MORE

Oil Tank Explosion Injures 7

Oil Tank Explosion Injures 7

Corpus Christi, (WBAP/KLIF) – Seven contract workers were injured Saturday when a storage tank exploded at a petroleum facility in Corpus Christi. Four of the victims were critically injured. Magellan Midstream Partners Operations Manager Mark Calhoun says the tank holding crude oil was being cleaned when a fire began. The fire caused an explosion. It…MORE

COVID-19 Cases Increase, But Mortality Rate Decreases

COVID-19 Cases Increase, But Mortality Rate Decreases

(WBAP/KLIF) —  The Dallas-Fort Worth area continues to add large numbers of coronavirus cases to the overall infection total.  Dallas county reported another nearly 1,700 coronavirus positive tests, Saturday, while Tarrant county listed over 1,300 and Denton county had 389. That brought the metroplex total to nearly 296-thousand cases since the pandemic began. However, the…MORE