MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – A Regional Infusion Center to help treat COVID-19 patients in North Texas is scheduled to open on Thursday in McKinney. The Texas Division of Emergency Management, in partnership with Baylor Scott & White Health, Collin College, and Collin County, has provided the infusion center as an additional resource for treating patients with…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Well over 600 new laws that recently passed the State Legislature went into effect on Wednesday in the state of Texas. The new laws, include the so-called Heartbeat Bill, constitutional carry legislation, and laws that protect law enforcement. Senate Bill 8, known as “The Heartbeat Bill” bans abortion the moment a baby’s…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Blood test results show that the wife of Gubernatorial candidate Allen West did not have drugs in her system the night she was arrested by Dallas Police on suspicion of Driving While Intoxicated. According to court records, Angela West is no longer facing charges in the case. Dallas Police Association President Mike…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it’s “possible” the U.S. will have to coordinate with the Taliban on any future counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against Islamic State militants or others. Milley spoke Wednesday at a Pentagon news conference two days after the final U.S. troops left Afghanistan…… MORE
WACO (WBAP/KLIF News) – Connally ISD has closed its schools for the week after two teachers died of COVID-19 within days of one another last week. 41-year-old Natalia Chansler, a sixth grade social studies teacher, died on Saturday August 28th. She was last on campus August 25th. 59-year-oldDavid McCormick, a seventh grade social studies teacher, died…… MORE
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Five people are missing after a U.S. Navy helicopter crashed in the ocean off Southern California during a routine flight from an aircraft carrier. The Navy’s U.S. Pacific Fleet says a search and rescue operation was launched after the MH-60S helicopter crashed around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday about 60 nautical miles off…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – The leading cause of death for law enforcement so far this year is COVID -19, according to the national Officer Down Memorial Page. Nationwide, 103 police officers have died of COVID so far this year; COVID was the leading cause of death for law enforcement in 2020. David Tilley, spokesman for the Plano,…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The sweeping changes to Texas’ election code now awaiting GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature would make it harder — sometimes even legally riskier — to cast a ballot in the state, which already has some of the nation’s most restrictive voting laws. Democrats gridlocked the state Capitol for 38 consecutive days after more…… MORE
Austin (AP) – A Texas law banning most abortions in the state took effect at midnight Wednesday, but the Supreme Court has yet to act on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold. If allowed to remain in force, the law would be the most dramatic restriction on abortion rights in the United…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The lone Dallas IT worker who was responsible for deleting a massive amount of Dallas police files, apparently had done it at least twice before. that worker is has been fired, according to the Dallas Morning News. Officials reviewed the city’s complete data archive dating back to 2018 and discovered that the…… MORE
