DALLAS – Tarrant County reached a gruesome new milestone Saturday July 25th, in announcing its highest number of deaths yet blamed on the coronavirus at 15, with 584 new cases of Covid 19 reported. Dallas County is back to higher numbers again in the pandemic, with 1,267 new cases and 18 deaths reported Saturday. Denton County…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – (Copyright2020WBAP/KLIF News. All Rights Reserved.) The City of Dallas received ventilator and bed capacity reports from 25 hospitals on Friday. The numbers from Mayor Eric Johnson’s office indicate 69% of ‘total beds’ are occupied; 4,916 out of 5,975. And 70% of I-C-U beds; 673 out of 955. There are a total…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Friday that the county is experiencing a “sharp uptick” in the number of children contracting COVID-19. The warning comes after Dallas County reported the COVID-19 related death 5 year-old boy who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an…… MORE
FORT WORTH – A tropical storm warning has been issued for the South Texas Gulf Coast, with expectations a storm storm system, now upgraded to a tropical storm, will dump up to 12 inches of rainfall in some areas of South Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville this weekend. Tropical Storm Hannah is expected to…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Coronavirus has now taken the lives of more than one thousand North Texans. With 53 deaths over the last two days, the Metroplex now has 1,016 COVID-19 related deaths. The surge caused a slight uptick in the mortality rate which rose from 1.2% to 1.3%. Dallas county has over 44,000 cases and…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – Bars in Texas remain closed as the state experiences a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, but dozens of bar owners plan to defy Governor Abbbott’s mandate this weekend. Bars in Texas were closed then reopened under the state’s phased reopening plan. Weeks later, with a spike in cases and the COVID-19…… MORE
WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF) – A bill that would’ve recognized Juneteenth as a National holiday was blocked this week in the Senate. Senator John Cornyn of Texas co-authored the bill surrounding the day slaves in Texas learned they had been freed, which officially marked the end of slavery in the U-S. Senator Cornyn told his colleagues in…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — State health officials say Wednesday is the deadliest single day of the pandemic as 197 new deaths were reported. The state has reported 1,535 deaths in the past two weeks. The Coronavirus pandemic death toll in North Texas is nearing 1,000. 30 additional deaths occurred in Dallas county, Wednesday, while Tarrant county listed…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall issued an updated general order on Wednesday that immediately revamps the department’s protocols and procedures in the management of peaceful protests. The modifications involve restrictions on the use of non-lethal tools such as tear gas and kinetic impact projectiles. Across the country, police departments are re-examining their…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Almost a quarter of the Coronavirus cases in Texas are in the Metroplex. North Texas is nearing 77,000 cases of COVID-19 with 952 fatalities. Dallas county has over 43,000 cases with 537 deaths. Tarrant county is approaching 23,000 infections and 304 fatalities. Collin county reports more than 5,600 Coronavirus cases with 66 residents…… MORE
