ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Allen ISD is offering curbside meal service twice a week to its students, K-12, to help struggling families whose children are now learning from home. The service starts Wednesday, August 12th, and will give families meal bundles, two breakfasts and two lunches. This week, the pick up dates are Wednesday and…… MORE
Balch Springs, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Dallas has upheld the murder conviction and 15-year prison term for former Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver. Oliver is serving 15 years for the 2017 murder of Jordan Edwards. he was a passenger in a car leaving a party police were breaking up.…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that coronavirus testing in Texas could increase as schools reopen amid a sharp drop-off in the number of tests in recent weeks. Texas has averaged more than 34,000 tests a day over the past week, down from a daily average of more than 60,000 in…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – There are questions surrounding the President Trump‘s memorandum regarding his extension of unemployment benefits. It calls for states to anti up $100 of the $400 extension. On Monday, the Texas Workforce Commission issued a statement to multiple news outlets that it’s “currently reviewing the presidential memorandum and will provide additional information as…… MORE
(AP) – President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a U.S. Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus briefing Monday afternoon. He returned minutes later, saying there was a “shooting” outside the White House that was “under control.” Trump says, “There was an actual shooting and…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)-The Fort Worth Police Department needs your help locating a missing woman they say is in danger. Police are looking for Carolyn Kay Riggins, a 69 year old black woman who was last seen on July 11th at the Watauga Road Bingo Hall. Shes 5’9″, 200 pounds and has a brown curly wig (natural…… MORE
STEPHENVILLE (WBAP/KLIF) – Tarleton State University announced on Monday that it has delayed its football season until the spring semester due to safety and scheduling concerns brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. “The health and well-being of our student-athletes, as well as our fans, staff and all the students of Tarleton State University, has always…… MORE
Ben Bolt High School has become the first school in the state of Texas to cancel its sports program due to COVID-19. The Class 2A school is located west of Corpus Christi. According to superintendent Mike A Barriera, the decision was made after much consideration and ”out of an abundance of caution”. Twelve states have…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Six museums in the Dallas Arts District and downtown have announced today their plans to reopen and welcome visitors again, after being closed since mid-March over concerns surrounding COVID-19. The Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum will open to the public on August 14; the Nasher…… MORE
LAKE WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – The fall semester is set to begin in the Lake Worth Independent School District next week and an employee at one campus has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement from the district, the employee worked at the Miller Elementary School and, as a result, the campus is closed Monday…… MORE
