Quinlan (WBAP/KLIF) – A small child has been killed by a dog in a semi-rural part of Hunt County. Hunt County deputies say the child slipped, unnoticed, out of the family’s fenced yard on the west side of Lake Tawakoni late Monday morning, and was walking down a gravel road when a neighbor’s dog got…… MORE
PLANO, Texas (AP) — As coronavirus cases skyrocket in Texas, Regina Greenwell showed up to vote Monday bent on minimizing the risks. She wore a mask, which are not required in Texas, where the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than tripled in the last month. She scoped out the line from her car to…… MORE
Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that rejected environmental groups’ challenge to sections of wall the Trump administration is building along the U.S. border with Mexico. The high court on Monday declined to hear an appeal involving construction of 145 miles of steel-bollard walls along the border in Texas,…… MORE
Mansfield (WBAP/KLIF) – A carjacking call Monday afternoon in Mansfield quickly became a murder case. Mansfield Police were called to a shopping center parking lot by a woman who said her car had been stolen from her by a man who leaped out of a nearby parked car, and took hers at gunpoint. When police…… MORE
PLANO, Texas (AP) – Voting is underway in Texas as the state tries to contain surging numbers of coronavirus cases. Early voting for primary runoffs began Monday as the state reported nearly 6,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, which was a new daily high for the state. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had postponed the primary runoffs to…… MORE
LOUISIANA (WBAP/KLIF)- The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law the required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. “In the instance that a woman has a complication with an abortion and has to be rushed to an emergency room at a nearby hospital, that doctor should be able to…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously approved plans Monday for the system’s eight UT academic institutions to offer in-person, online and hybrid courses in the fall, while taking numerous and extensive measures to protect the health and safety of students, faculty and staff. According to board, given the changing dynamics…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – Face coverings will be required in all McKinney businesses as of Wednesday afternoon as coronavirus cases in North Texas continue to rise. Dallas and Tarrant Counties have both mandated businesses to require all employees and customers to wear masks. But Collin County is yet to issue a mask mandate. McKinney Mayor George…… MORE
(DFW) WBAP/KLIF – Tarrant County reported 263 new Coronavirus cases on Monday. There have been a total of 11,739 COVID-19 cases, 225 people have died and more than 5,000 have recovered in the county. The Dallas County Health Department is reporting 572 additional Covid 19 cases and 1 additional death. The county now has 20,737…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era. Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the…… MORE
