Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Dallas County Reports “Sharp Uptick” in Number of Children Contracting COVID-19

Dallas County Reports “Sharp Uptick” in Number of Children Contracting COVID-19

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

State Fair of Texas Announces Additional Livestock Events to Support Texas Youth

State Fair of Texas Announces Additional Livestock Events to Support Texas Youth

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The State Fair of Texas on Friday announced additional events to the revised 2020 livestock show schedule, including virtual contests and livestock breeding show competitions through an unprecedented partnership with the Heart O’ Texas Livestock Show. In addition to the market week shows in Fair Park during September 23 through October 2, announced…MORE

Tropical Storm Hannah to Dump Up to One Foot of Water on South Texas

Tropical Storm Hannah to Dump Up to One Foot of Water on South Texas

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

North Texas Program Provides Free Mental Health Counseling Services Amid Covid-19

North Texas Program Provides Free Mental Health Counseling Services Amid Covid-19

TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- A new program launched by My Health My Resources (MHMR) of Tarrant County is helping to address the needs of all Tarrant and Denton County residents experiencing stress, anxiety and depression from COVID-19, whether it’s due to the illness itself or due to economic distress. Texans Recovering Together is a crisis counseling program…MORE

Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Released from Prison Again

Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Released from Prison Again

OTISVILLE, N.Y. (AP) – President Donald Trump’s former lawyer has been released from prison after a federal judge ruled that a move to revoke his home confinement was retaliatory. Michael Cohen was released from a prison in Otisville, New York on Friday after U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ordered him freed on Thursday. Cohen had…MORE

ICE “Endangering” Illegal Immigrants by Housing Them in 2.5 Star Hotels

ICE “Endangering” Illegal Immigrants by Housing Them in 2.5 Star Hotels

(WBAP/KLIF) — ICE officials are being criticized for housing undocumented immigrant youth in two and a half star hotels.  According to U.S. Immigration and Customs, when agents take an illegal immigrant youth into custody, they hire an independent contractor to put them up in a $100 a night hotel for safety. A court-appointed monitor for immigrant…MORE

Shemwell And Fuller Trade Accusations in McKinney

Shemwell And Fuller Trade Accusations in McKinney

(WBAP/KLIF) — The feud between Mckinney Mayor George Fuller and outspoken councilman La’shadion Shemwell reignited this week.  Tempers boiled over during a recent council meeting when the mayor moved to have an 11-member committee review the statue removal of James Webb Throckmorton, who was a confederate general. According to Fuller, Shemwell disrupted the city meeting…MORE

16 Year Old Gunned Down in Dallas Park

16 Year Old Gunned Down in Dallas Park

(WBAP/KLIF) — Dallas Police are searching for the killer of a 16-year-old boy who was gunned down in Arcadia Park, Thursday. According to officer Warren Mitchell, the young man was shot by another young Latin male at around 12:20 in the afternoon.The unidentified gunman fled the scene with two other Latin males in a tan…MORE

Tinslee’s Motion Withdrawn, But Hope Surfaces

Tinslee’s Motion Withdrawn, But Hope Surfaces

(WBAP/KLIF) — Lawyers for the family of Tinslee Lewis have changed course in a lawsuit against Cook’s Children’s Medical Center.  The family withdrew a court motion to compel the hospital to allow a new doctor to treat the child. The motion was entered, Tuesday, after hospital lawyers said turning care over to a Michigan based…MORE

COVID-19 Kills More Than a Thousand North Texans

COVID-19 Kills More Than a Thousand North Texans

(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