Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Triple homicide in Killeen

Triple homicide in Killeen

KILLEEN, Texas (AP) – Police in Killeen say three people have been found shot to death inside an apartment in the central Texas city. Police Commander Ronnie Supak says officers investigating water leaking into an apartment early Saturday traced the source to an unlocked apartment, where they found two men and a woman dead. No…MORE

Tarrant County Announces 4th Covid 19 Patient

Tarrant County Announces 4th Covid 19 Patient

FORT WORTH  – WBAP/KLIF – Tarrant County announced it’s fourth positive case of Covid 19, with testing at a private lab.  Officials say the fourth case is a resident of Tarrant County, and is a close contact to the American AIrlines pilot who tested positive earlier last week.  That pilot was determined to be an…MORE

Comcast, Offering 60 Days of Free Broadband Internet To Qualifying Households

Comcast, Offering 60 Days of Free Broadband Internet To Qualifying Households

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Due to the coronavirus many people are being asked to work from home.Telecommunications giant Comcast said it wants to help support that by offering 60 days of free broadband internet service to qualifying new & existing customers. Beginning Monday March 16th the company said it will offer its Internet Essentials Plan…MORE

47 Year Old Plano Woman Has Tested Presumptive Positive for Coronavirus

47 Year Old Plano Woman Has Tested Presumptive Positive for Coronavirus

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The City of Plano has reported its first presumptive positive for COVID-19. “We were alerted by the Collin County Health Department. They’re reporting that a 47-year-old Plano woman has tested presumptive positive for novel coronavirus (COVID 19). The woman has no underlying health conditions, is self-isolating in her home, and is…MORE

Crack disrupts Southwest Airlines jet in flight

Crack disrupts Southwest Airlines jet in flight

DALLAS (AP) – Safety officials are investigating how a 12 inch crack developed in the skin of a Boeing 737 jet operated by Southwest Airlines. The plane gradually lost cabin pressure on the flight, but pilots flew down lower where the pressure was safe, and completed the flight from Las Vegas to Boise, Idaho. The…MORE

No bail in Virginia for a suspected Texas Nazi

No bail in Virginia for a suspected Texas Nazi

Arlington, VA (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal magistrate in Virginia has denied bond to an accused neo-Nazi from Texas who prosecutors say was planning to report phony bomb threats to terrorize a number of targets including an unnamed former cabinet official, and a black church in Virginia. 26 year old John Denton of Montgomery, Texas is…MORE

Dallas County Health Officials Aim to Curb Spread of COVID-19

Dallas County Health Officials Aim to Curb Spread of COVID-19

(WBAP/KLIF) DALLAS COUNTY, TX — Dallas County is trying to stop the spread of Coronavirus.  Judge Clay Jenkins initiated an order to ban gatherings of 250 or more to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Dallas county. He further stated the county strongly discouraged group gatherings of ten persons or more belonging to the at-risk…MORE

11th Presumptive Positive Coronavirus Case in Dallas County

11th Presumptive Positive Coronavirus Case in Dallas County

UPDATE:  DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Dallas County announces it’s 10th and 11th presumptive positive patients for Covid 19.  Both cases are reported to be men, one in his 40s; another in his 30s; one connected to international travel and the second to travel on a cruise ship.   Both men are reported as self isolating at…MORE