WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is urging Americans to get vaccinated including booster shots as he seeks to quell concerns Monday over the new COVID-19 variant omicron, but he won’t immediately push for more restrictions to stop its spread. During remarks from the White House, the president said the omicron variant is a “cause for…… MORE
FRISCO (WBAP/KLIF) – A COVID-19 outbreak among the Dallas Cowboys has thrown a wrench into practice this week. According to the team, Head Coach Mike McCarthy has undergone COVID protocols and will miss Thursday’s game. “Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy has been entered into the NFL’s Covid protocols this morning,” a statement from team…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Actor Matthew McConaughey has announced he is not running for governor in the 2022 election. After months of publicly flirting with the idea of becoming the latest celebrity candidate, the 52-year-old academy award winning actor made the announcement, Sunday. McConaughey posted a video indicating that political leadership was not a route he was…… MORE
Lake Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – An off-duty Euless Police officer was killed in a Saturday afternoon traffic accident in Lake Worth that reportedly was caused by a drunk driver. Detective Alejandro “Alex” Cervantes was killed in the crash. His wife who was beside him in their car was critically injured, and their two children are hospitalized…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police officers were called Friday afternoon to a Cockrell Hill home to investigate a report of an abandoned child. What they uncovered was a matricide. The officers were told a two year old child had been dropped off at her great-grandparent’s home by an unknown person. The child was supposed to…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – Millions of Americans are loading up their cars or piling onto planes, apparently determined to reclaim Thanksgiving traditions that were paused last year by the pandemic. The number of air travelers this week is expected to approach or even exceed pre-pandemic levels. Auto club AAA predicts that 48.3 million people will travel…… MORE
Update at 12:00pm: BRUSSELS (AP) – An advisory panel of the World Health Organization classified a new COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa as a highly transmissible virus of concern and named it “omicron” under its Greek-letter system. The announcement on Friday from the United Nations health agency marks the first time in months…… MORE
New York (AP) Stocks are opening sharply lower on Wall Street – the Dow down 1,026 as of 9:37 ET – Friday after South Africa found a fast-spreading coronavirus variant and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from southern Africa. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 900 points in the first 20…… MORE
Haltom City (WBAP/KLIF) – Three suspects have been arrested so far for the November 15 killings of two Haltom City teenagers. The 16 and 17 year old victims were found that afternoon lying near Haltom City’s North Park basketball courts. They had been shot to death. One juvenile suspect was arrested shortly after the bodies…… MORE
Garland (WBAP/KLIF) – A 26 year old Garland resident has been arrested for an early Thanksgiving day murder. Ram Hel is in the Garland jail, charged with the killing of Shalom Thang. Thang was found lying in the driveway of a home near the southwest corner of Garland’s Alamo Park. He had been stabbed, and…… MORE
