AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office is responding to a tweet from the Lieutenant Governor regarding a fourth special session. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said in a Tweet on Wednesday that more needs to be done. He said the House needs to pass an election forensic audit bill, and that he would support…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mavericks star Luka Dončić is giving back to local children. This week Dončić surprised patients who are admitted at Children’s Health in Dallas and Plano with special gifts to help uplift their spirits. Each patient admitted in the Pauline Allen Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Health received a pair of…… MORE
Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Cruz entered his plea Wednesday after answering a long list of questions from Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer aimed at confirming his mental competency. Cruz was charged with…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) Dallas based Southwest Airlines is telling unvaccinated employees that they can continue to work after the deadline for federal contractors passes. The vaccine requirement calls on all Federal contractors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by December 8. Southwest Airlines initially indicated it would put any employee who doesn’t meet that deadline on…… MORE
Grand Prairie, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Another North Texas police officer has died from complications of COVID-19. The Grand Prairie Police Department tweeted, “We will #NeverForget” officer Andy MacDonald who had been with the department since 1999. Other details about his life have not been released. MacDonald is the latest in recent COVID deaths among law…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF)- An amber alert that was issued for 1-year-old Stephen Ameer Orosco has been cancelled. He was found safe. Copyright 2021. WBAP/KLIF News. All Rights Reserved.… MORE
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
