Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Amazon has announced that its hiring 6,500 people in Dallas area and hundreds of thousands nationwide. The company website says the positions will be part- or full-time in several areas of the company from packing to shipping, sorting orders or logistics. The announcement is not related to its typical holiday hiring.…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Authorities were continuing the search for a gunman who shot and wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in an apparent ambush in their squad car. The department announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Surveillance video shows a gunman with a pistol open fire on the deputies’…… MORE
FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – Fort Worth Police are saying little about an investigation into the fatal Highway 20 shooting of Tanika Guy last Thursday morning. It happened about 2:30 am, near the Hulen Street exit. 26 year old Tanika Guy was in a vehicle with two other men when she’s reported to have stated…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF -Tarrant County Saturday reported 11 deaths related to the Covid 19 virus, and 203 new infections. Dallas County Saturday reported 160 new cases; 15 from the Texas Department of State Health Services lab reporting system, and 5 from prior weeks. Denton County Saturday reported 37 new cases of the viral infection. Denton…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas VFW is pushing back against Governor Greg Abbott’s COVID-19 restrictions. VFW Posts in Texas have been shutdown for months under the Governor’s order requiring establishments that make more than 50% of revenue off alcohol to temporarily close. The restrictions are weighing heavy on veterans who frequent the posts. According to…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – Americans are set to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks with tributes altered by the coronavirus. If a weary nation needed more proof the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped its rituals, America need look no further than the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. Because of the pandemic, the…… MORE
FREELAND, Mich. (AP) – Reeling from another crisis of his own making, President Donald Trump tried to refocus attention on his Democratic rival at a rally in battleground Michigan Thursday as he pushed to move past revelations that he purposefully played down the danger of the coronavirus last winter. But the virus controversy followed him…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas is approaching 650,000 confirmed positive tests of Coronavirus and nearly 14,000 deaths. Dallas county has almost 75,000 positive tests, Tarrant county close to 44,000, Collin county is nearing 12,000, while Denton county has almost 11,000 positive tests. Many of the reporting counties have not indicated whether the positive tests throughout the pandemic…… MORE
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott doubled down on his efforts Thursday, to discourage Texas cities from defunding Police departments. The Governor announced a new legislative proposal on the issue. Under the legislation, cities that defund Police would lose their annexation powers, and residents in areas that have been annexed by the city will be able…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Two Fort Worth officers are being accused of using excessive force. A video circulating over social media, shows a scuffle between two Fort Worth Officers and two women at the American Gardens Bar in Fort Worth’s West 7th District. The video shows what appears to be an officer punching a woman and…… MORE
