AP Business Writer (WBAP/KLIF) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter. He says the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company. Musk is currently Twitter’s biggest shareholder. The company says in a regulatory filing that he has…… MORE
LAREDO (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott is lifting increased vehicle inspections at one border crossing. The Governor’s enhanced vehicle inspections were in response to the coming end of Title-42, and the expectation it will lead to a surge of illegal crossings. The directive though, led to long delays for truckers at the border and…… MORE
Updated at 1:35am: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) – Authorities have arrested a man wanted in an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people wounded by gunfire. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that Frank R. James was taken into custody Wednesday in Manhattan’s East Village. Investigators had announced Tuesday…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – The Fort Worth ISD Board of Education has chosen a firm that will head up the search for the district’s next superintendent. In March, trustees approved a joint agreement that Dr. Kent P. Scribner will step down as superintendent on August 31 of this year, which is earlier than initially planned.…… MORE
WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) – The Biden administration will extend for two weeks the nationwide mask requirement for public transit as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was set to extend the order, which was to expire on April 18,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced, on Wednesday, the arrival of the first group of illegal migrants bused to Washington, D.C. The busing strategy is part of Governor Abbott’s response to the Biden Administration’s decision to end Title 42 expulsions. The migrant passengers were dropped off between Union Station and the United States…… MORE
Pharr, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Democratic candidate for Texas Governor has joined calls for Governor Abbott to end stepped up inspections at the US-Mexico border calling it a “political stunt” that is hurting the Texas economy. . O’rourke, speaking from a cold storage facility in Pharr, Texas said some truckers are now only getting through…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Amid a long-fought legal batter to keep her alive, a FTW toddler has been released from Cook Children’s Hospital. Lewis was sent home last Thursday according to the Dallas Morning News after being hospitalized and kept on respirator for most of her life. Tinslee came into the world prematurely in 2019…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Severe storms brought strong winds, hail, and destruction to the Metroplex, Tuesday. WBAP/KLIF storm spotter Dave Bradbury reported 80 to 90 mile per hour winds in Ennis that tore the roof off a building. Roughly 45,000 Oncor customers experienced outages due to downed power lines, while some areas reported hail the size of…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Severe storms brought strong winds, hail, and destruction to the Metroplex, Tuesday. WBAP/KLIF storm spotter Dave Bradbury reported 80 to 90 mile per hour winds in Ennis that tore the roof off a building. Roughly 45,000 Oncor customers experienced outages due to downed power lines, while some areas reported hail the size of…… MORE
