Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts. The law has been in effect since September, aside from a district court-ordered pause that lasted just 48 hours. It bans abortions…… MORE
Associated Press WASHIINGTON (AP) – Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications, his family said Monday. In an announcement on social media, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. Powell was the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and…… MORE
New York (AP, WBAP/KLIF) – A watercolor by Vincent van Gogh that was seized by the Nazis during World War II will be sold next month at auction in New York. The auction house Christie’s says the work is expected to sell for $20 million or more. Christie’s is auctioning the 1888 work, “Wheatstacks,” after…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – A gunman firing an AR-15 rifle ambushed three Houston constables, killing one of them. According to a police spokesman, the three were working security at a local bar early Saturday morning when a burglary call came in and they arrested a man in the parking lot. That’s when the three were shot…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn joined DFW area Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders, and refugee resettlement organizations on Friday at the Northwest Community Center in Dallas to discuss the resettlement process. The roundtable touched on the resettlement process to assist SIV holders with job-skills training, mentoring, language learning, and additional services. Leaders from the Northwest Community Center, International Rescue Committee in Dallas, Refugee Services of Texas,…… MORE
DENTON (WBAP/KLIF)- Hundreds of students at Guyer High school in Denton participated in a walk out Friday morning. The walk out was said to be in support of an alleged sexual assault victim. A spokesperson for the Denton Police department said on Oct. 6 a 15-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after an alleged…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund [NLEOMF] honored fallen police officers in 2020 and 2021 during it’s 33rd annual candlelight vigil ceremony. During the ceremony the names of all 701 fallen officers nationwide in the past two years were read. Two-thirds of those who died succumb to COVID-19. Lori Sharp-Day, Board…… MORE
Washington (AP)- Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to a Southern California hospital Tuesday with an infection but he is “on the mend,” his spokesman said Thursday. Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening for a non-COVID-related infection, Angel Ureña said in a statement. “He is on…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The BMW Dallas Marathon Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year after being canceled last year because of COVID. “The BMW Dallas Marathon Festival is a beloved annual tradition in our city — one that we have missed as we battled through the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mayor…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Four members from Dallas Fire-Rescue were injured in an apartment explosion at the Highland Hills Apartment Complex in late September. While one of those firefighters was discharged that same day, three firefighters were hospitalized at Parkland in critical condition. According to DFR, all three are improving and are in serious but stable condition. DFR said Wednesday that Captain…… MORE
