Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Dallas Police Officers Question District Attorney’s Call for Evidence in 2020 Protests

Dallas Police Officers Question District Attorney’s Call for Evidence in 2020 Protests

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police Officers are taking issue with the District Attorney’s renewed request for the public’s help regarding potential misconduct by police during protests in the summer of 2020. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot is again asking for photos and video from witnesses as he builds evidence to potentially charge officers who…MORE

Texas Task Force on Concert Safety Holds Meeting in San Antonio

Texas Task Force on Concert Safety Holds Meeting in San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott’s Texas Task Force on Concert Safety held their fifth meeting, and third in-person meeting, in San Antonio on Thursday. According to the Governor’s office, the meeting brought together public safety and industry experts, as well as expert contributors and local authorities, to continue the ongoing discussion of best…MORE

Dallas Police Seeking Animal Cruelty Suspect Who Shot Dog in Backyard

Dallas Police Seeking Animal Cruelty Suspect Who Shot Dog in Backyard

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Police are searching for the person who shot a dog in the backyard of an east Oak Cliff home last month. The white and blue Pittbull-type dog was found at a home off 4700 Cranfill Drive on December 7, 2021. The dog survived the shooting and “is thriving”. Anyone with…MORE

Biden Marks Year Since Attack: ‘I will Stand in This Breach’

Biden Marks Year Since Attack: ‘I will Stand in This Breach’

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden and members of Congress are solemnly marking the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. Biden assailed then-President Donald Trump and his supporters, saying that “they failed” to overturn democracy. The ceremonies at the Capitol were widely attended by Democrats, but almost every Republican on Capitol Hill…MORE

President Biden Addresses Americans on 1-Year Anniversary of Capitol Riot

President Biden Addresses Americans on 1-Year Anniversary of Capitol Riot

WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News) – On the one year anniversary of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, President Biden addressed Americans from Statuary Hall. He touched on many topics, including praising the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s efforts to defend the building amid the violence. “Fire extinguishers being thrown at the…MORE

H-E-B Adds Southern Dallas to its North Texas Holdings

H-E-B Adds Southern Dallas to its North Texas Holdings

Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Amid criticism that some high end grocers have ignored southern Dallas County, H-E-B has purchased a vacant building near Duncanville and Desoto. According to the Dallas Morning News, the old building was an Albertson’s for 19 years until 2004. No word on what the company plans to do with the building,…MORE

Texas day care gets reprieve after drilling plan is rejected

Texas day care gets reprieve after drilling plan is rejected

ARLINGTON (AP) – Parents who send their children to a day care center in Arlington, Texas, will be able to breathe easier after the city refused to let a major energy company drill more gas wells a few hundred feet from the center’s playground. The Arlington City Council voted 5-4 on Tuesday night to reject…MORE

Fed Officials Now Seeing US Job Market Near Full Recovery

Fed Officials Now Seeing US Job Market Near Full Recovery

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve policymakers at a meeting last month said the U.S. job market was nearly at levels healthy enough that the central bank’s low-interest rate policies were no longer needed. That’s according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday. The minutes also said that Fed officials expressed concerns that surging inflation was…MORE

CDC Urges ‘up to date’ Shots; No ‘fully vaccinated’ Change

CDC Urges ‘up to date’ Shots; No ‘fully vaccinated’ Change

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. health officials say they are not changing the definition of being “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19. But they are urging Americans to stay “up to date” on their virus protection by getting booster shots when eligible. The move to keep the existing definition of fully vaccination – either two doses of the…MORE