Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Pizza Patron Donates Big to CitySquare Food Pantry

Pizza Patron Donates Big to CitySquare Food Pantry

DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Pizza Patron is donating $20,000 to CitySquare Food Pantry on Friday, to help the agency purchase more food and cover some operational expenses for services while continuing to help the hungry through the Covid 19 pandemic. CitySquare’s John Siburt says more food must be purchased to continue to help the hungry,…MORE

Reliant Donates $25k to Support MedStar Mobile Healthcare’s COVID-19 Relief Efforts in DFW

Reliant Donates $25k to Support MedStar Mobile Healthcare’s COVID-19 Relief Efforts in DFW

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)-Reliant is donating $25,000 to the MedStar Mobile Healthcare Foundation to support first responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The donation is a part of Reliant’s support across the state of Texas and parent company, NRG Energy, Inc.’s, $2 million donation to pandemic relief efforts. “We are…MORE

13 Thousand Donated PPE Masks to be Donated to In-Need DFW Businesses

13 Thousand Donated PPE Masks to be Donated to In-Need DFW Businesses

DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – The founder and CEO of Sando Capital Partners says he’s used Asian business connections to land 13,000 Personal Protective Equipment masks from China that will be donated Friday to UT Southwestern Medical Center, the Dallas based restaurant group 8.0, and Southwest Airlines flight attendants. Sando says he located a Chinese manufacturer…MORE

Congress Delivers Nearly $500B More in Virus Aid

Congress Delivers Nearly $500B More in Virus Aid

WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress has delivered a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending, almost unanimously rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed almost 50,000 American lives and one in six U.S. jobs. House lawmakers gathered in Washington for the first time since March 27,…MORE

Alphabetical Guidelines Take Effect at Katy Trail

Alphabetical Guidelines Take Effect at Katy Trail

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Law enforcement was patrolling the Katy Trail Thursday afternoon as alphabetical guidelines took effect to prevent further spread of COVID-19. To manage the increasing number of Katy Trail users and encourage physical distancing the outbreak, Dallas Park and Recreation implemented a trail management strategy that gives visitors access to the trail on…MORE

Beaumont Mayor Criticized for Nail Salon Visit Amid Coronavirus Shut Downs

Beaumont Mayor Criticized for Nail Salon Visit Amid Coronavirus Shut Downs

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) – Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames said she did not violate the city’s stay-at-home order when she visited a closed nail shop. After a picture that circulated social media sparked criticism of the mayor showing her nails soaking in a bowl, Mayor Ames explained she wasn’t getting a manicure but was soaking her…MORE

Oil prices hit new lows as economic pain deepens

Oil prices hit new lows as economic pain deepens

Undated (AP) – A barrel of oil now costs less than a cheap bottle of wine. Oil tanks are filling up and producers are finding there’s nowhere to put the once-valuable commodity as global demand craters and prices sink to new lows. U.S. benchmark crude was trading around $6.50 a barrel Tuesday. That’s more than…MORE

At Least 5 Dead As Storms Hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

At Least 5 Dead As Storms Hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

MADILL, Okla. (AP) — Severe weather was moving through Mississippi early Thursday after apparent tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, where five deaths included a trailer factory worker whose body was found a quarter mile from his workplace. The worker was killed in southern Oklahoma’s Marshall County, where the storm hit Madill,…MORE

Apartment fire destroys three story building

Apartment fire destroys three story building

Dallas – (WBAP/KLIF) – 50 Dallas firefighters battled a two alarm blaze in northeast Dallas Wednesday night. The fire destroyed a three story building at the Falls at Highpoint Apartments a block or so east of the Texas Instruments campus. All residents got out safely, and there were no injuries to residents or firefighters, but…MORE