Dallas – Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – E-learning prevails for many school districts around the nation, including the DWF area, as the coronavirus emergency continues. Online learning kicked in for many school districts as COVID-19 cases increased, and more shelter-at-home orders were initiated. The seemingly seamless transition to online classes for thousands of school kids makes…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) — Two Texas prisons have been locked down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, while inmates at other facilities are making masks to fight the pandemic. Nearly 1,000 people have been confined to their cells on medical restriction at the Rufe Jordan Unit, in the Texas Panhandle, along with more than 1,100…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) President Donald Trump removed Glenn Fine, the acting inspector general for the Defense Department, from his post. The action means that Fine will not chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tasked with overseeing 2-trillion dollars in emergency coronavirus funding. Glenn Fine is the acting Defense Department inspector general. He was selected last month…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Denton State Supported Living Center is coming under fire from employees claiming they were forced to care for COVID-19 infected patients or turn in their resignation. Former employee Bukola Amodu has an underlying health condition and was given the ultimatum when she wouldn’t care for infected residents. Amodu resigned due to the…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Metroplex is just shy of 2,500 confirmed cases of Coronavirus and nearing 50 deaths. Dallas County still has more than twice the number of COVID-19 cases than any other North Texas county with 1,261. Tarrant County reported 517, Denton with 366, and Collin county lists 343 infected residents. The death toll sits…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — More than 700 North Texas airline employees are positive for Coronavirus. Southwest flight attendants union leader Lynn Montgomery says attendants need proper equipment and planes require more frequent cleaning. The union is appealing to the FAA and OSHA. 100 American Airlines flight attendants and 600 Southwest workers have tested positive for Coronavirus. Montgomery…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- Two Tarrant County Detectives have recovered from COVID-19 and plan to donate plasma to help others. Detective Jerry Brown and Detective Mark Smith say they both had mild symptoms. Smith, who has asthma, said he thought it was allergies, until he got tested. Smith said he was doing tactical training with Brown…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Two North Texans are being held responsible for threatening to intentionally spread the coronavirus. According to Grapevine Police, 27-year-old Jonathan Dechoudens was arrested for coughing into an officer’s face and claiming he had coronavirus. He is charged with Harassment of a Public Servant, a 3rd degree felony. “A Grapevine Police officer was sitting in…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Dallas medical personnel, police officers, firefighters and their immediate family can locate a nearby Tide Cleaners and get their personal clothes washed and dry cleaned for free. Front-line responders are putting their safety on the line every day to ensure the health and well-being of the Dallas community during the current COVID-19 Pandemic and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – More than 2,300 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the DFW metroplex with well over 40 deaths, as of Tuesday afternoon. Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 106 additional positive cases of the virus Tuesday, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 1,261. The 19th death from COVID-19 in…… MORE
