FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – Fort Worth Independent School District officials announce changes to food pickup for students while classes are on pause due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Starting Monday, parents or guardians of students must offer one form of identification to prove they have the students they say they do. District spokesman Clint…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Dallas Police are asking for the public’s help in solving a homicide. Dallas Police say they found the body of a 31 year old man, Albert Santoya, in a ditch. The location was not reported. The cause of death has not been released, but police indicate this is a homicide.…… MORE
WBAP/KLIF – New case counts and annoucements concerning Covid 19 in North Texas: Dallas County case count now up to 1,112 cases of Covid 19 Tarrant County announces two more victim deaths; both elderly individuals, with a case count now at 383; 11 deaths total. Collin County announces it’s third death, case count to 256…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – A suburban Dallas mayor is fighting the coronavirus on two fronts: at home and in the city. Just days after McKinney Mayor George Fuller imposed a stay-at-home order on the city’s 200,000 residents, his 19-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19. Although Fuller says he’s had an overwhelmingly positive response from McKinney residents…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County extended its ‘stay at home’ order on Friday. The Dallas County Commissioners Court voted 4 to 1 to extend the disaster declaration until May 20 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins later prolonged the county’s ‘safer at home order’ to April 30. The order requires non-essential businesses to…… MORE
FORT WORTH – Fort Worth Independent School District says it will give students a pass or fail grade for their work away from school during the Covid 19 pandemic, in which classes are canceled. Details of the unusual grading system at this time have been sent to parents and are posted on the district’s website.…… MORE
0:29 — In today’s KLIFnotes: the White House could be issuing guidelines soon recommending wearing masks in public, a Texas city is fining people for NOT wearing masks, and the Philippines says they’ll SHOOT people who don’t stay in their homes. Oh, and Nancy Pelosi being Nancy Pelosi… 9:10 — A good night’s sleep is…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Small Business Administration website is live for small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 crisis to apply for emergency loans. The application process can also be completed on local chambers of commerce websites, according to Trey Bowles with The Dallas Entrepreneurs Center (The DEC). Bowles strongly suggests that business owners…… MORE
DALLAS/FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the DFW metroplex has surpassed 1,500. Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 100 additional positive cases on Thursday, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 831. That’s nearly three-times as many cases than any other county in North Texas. The 16th and 17th deaths…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Ford Motor Company has halted production on vehicles and engines but United Auto Workers in plants are now producing face shields and ventilators for area hospitals. So far, Ford has produced over 30,000 FDA approved face shields to health care workers in DFW. “We anticipate to produce more as the need arises and hospitals are reaching out…… MORE
