(WBAP/KLIF) — The spread of COVID-19 has hampered this weekend’s high school football games across North Texas. At least 30 games were canceled in Texas and Dallas ISD Executive Athletic Director Slivia Salinas says players and fans have anticipated this longed-awaited event. Salinas says the school continues to work with county health officials to ensure…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A Fort Worth man pleads guilty to killing a fellow college student in Louisiana. 24 year-old Brandon Theesfeld avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to first degree murder in the death of 21 year old Ally Kostial. In 2019, Theesfeld reportedly took the young woman to a lake near campus to discuss Kostial…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – If you’ve got a flight with Southwest Airlines you better make sure it hasn’t been canceled. The Fort Worth base airline is reducing its flight schedule for the remainder of the year. The cancelations are due to numbers factors including the rise in COVID-19 cases impacting travel, and Southwest staff claiming to…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center warned. “The forecast track has it headed straight towards New Orleans. Not good,” said Jim Kossin, a senior scientist…… MORE
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States pressed on into the final days of the chaotic airlift from Afghanistan amid tighter security and warnings of more possible attacks Friday, a day after a devastating suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed well over 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members. The U.S. said more bloodshed…… MORE
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott has ordered Texas flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff to honor the U.S. service members who lost their lives during an attack at the airport yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan. I ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor the U.S. service members killed in yesterday’s horrific…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – North Texans are reacting to a U.S. Supreme court ruling that lifts the Biden administration’s moratorium on evictions. The Supreme Court said that the CDC doesn’t have the authority to issue the eviction moratorium, essentially ending the protection for Americans who can’t afford to pay their rent. The Dallas Fort Worth Tenants…… MORE
Kentucky and Texas joined a growing list of states that are seeing record numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a surge that is overwhelming doctors and nurses and afflicting more children. Intensive care units around the nation are packed with patients extremely ill with the coronavirus — even in places where hospitalizations have not yet…… MORE
Dallas/Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The School Boards in Dallas and Fort Worth each took steps Thursday night opposing Governor Abbott’s executive order that bans local officials from instituting mask mandates. The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees decided to join an existing multi-district lawsuit challenging the Governor’s order. Fort Worth’s School Board formally adopted a mask…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – A controversial voting reform bill was passed by the Texas House a little before midnight Thursday night. That’s the measure Democratic members blocked for weeks by leaving the state in protest. The House will take a final vote on the measure Friday. then the Senate, which has already passed its own version,…… MORE
