DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Texas Republican Representative Michael McCaul says six planes with Americans and Afghan translators aboard have been held by the Taliban for several days at an airport north of Kabul; the Taliban, he asserts, will not let the planes depart. McCaul says the Taliban wants something in exchange for release of the…… MORE
GARLAND – WBAP/KLIF – Garland Police charge a 30 year old man with two counts of intoxication manslaughter after a firey crash early Sunday morning. The crash happened on Highway 66, between Dexham and East Centerville Roads. Police say they believe a car driven by Gustavo Huerta Jr. rear-ended another vehicle, causing it to hit…… MORE
Undated (AP) – An extraordinary number of Ecuadorians has been coming to the United States. They now surpass El Salvadorans as the fourth largest nationality encountered by U.S. authorities on the Mexican border, behind Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans. That also has led to increasing numbers of Ecuadorians vanishing along the perilous journey from their homes.…… MORE
Washington (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard says cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida. The spill, which is ongoing, appears to be coming from a source underwater at an offshore drilling lease about two miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The reported location is…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth ISD is now having to deal with thousands of students in quarantine. More than 5,000 students and teachers in the school district are having to stay home after being exposed to COVID-19. Over the past week, some 72 district staff and more than 450 kids tested positive for the corona virus.…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Health and education officials are watching COVID cases among students and school staff in Texas. Less than a month into the school year, Texas schools districts have seen a record number of COVID-19 cases in the classroom. The state says last week more than 27-thousand students and 4-thousand staff members had tested positive. Multiple…… MORE
Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says the National Guard troops that she deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico will return to South Dakota later this month. The Republican governor deployed 48 National Guard troops to Texas in July. The deployment came in response to a request from Texas and…… MORE
Undated (AP) – Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft say they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under the new Texas law prohibiting most abortions. The Texas law bans abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks, and often before women know they’re pregnant. Rather than be…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Opponents of a sweeping Republican elections overhaul in Texas filed a lawsuit against Governor Greg Abbott before he had even signed the changes into law. A broad coalition of voting rights attorneys, disability rights groups, and faith-based organizations filed lawsuits Friday over the far-reaching voting bill in Texas known as Senate Bill…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A state judge has shielded Texas abortion clinics from lawsuits allowed by a new state abortion law. The Texas “Heartbeat Law”, which took effect Wednesday, allows anyone anywhere to sue anyone connected to an abortion in which cardiac activity was detected in the embryo. However, state District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued a temporary…… MORE
