Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) – A bankruptcy judge has approved a proposal by the Boy Scouts of America to set up an $850 million fund to compensate tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as youngsters by scout leaders. But the judge on Thursday also rejected two key provisions of…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas City Manager is promising more transparency following the deletion of police evidence files. According to city leadership, more than 22 terabytes of Police evidence files were unintentionally deleted by a city employee. Eight of those files are still missing. The files went missing in April, but the City Council and Mayor…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. officials are struggling to speed the pace of evacuations of Americans and Afghans at Kabul airport. But they are constrained by a combination of obstacles including Taliban checkpoints and paperwork problems. With an August 31 deadline looming, tens of thousands remain to be airlifted to safety. As of Thursday, about 7,000…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to her role in the January 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building. DFW Realtor Jenna Ryan was seen on video entering the Capitol building the day of the breach. Those videos were shared on social media. Ryan entered the guilty plea on a misdemeanor…… MORE
Updated at 1:45pm: WASHINGTON (AP) – The man who claimed to have bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff. The man, identified by law enforcement officials as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, crawled out of the vehicle and was being taken into…… MORE
AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low, the latest sign that America’s job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand. The Labor Department reported that jobless…… MORE
Paris, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – While the legal battle rages on regarding masking up in Texas schools one district has found a ‘go-around’ to Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mandates. Paris Independent School District in far northeast Texas voted this week to make masks part of its dress code. The school board said in a written…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Texas law outlawing an abortion method commonly used to end second-trimester pregnancies was upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The 2017 law in question has never been enforced. It seeks to prohibit the use of forceps to remove a fetus from the womb — what supporters…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Fort Worth City Council voted to establish a memorial designation on I-35W to honor Atatiana Jefferson, a Fort Worth woman killed by a former police officer nearly two years ago. Jefferson was shot at through a window of her mother’s south fort worth home during a non emergency call. The designation…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Fort Worth Public Library is offering new Educator Cards to teachers and homeschool instructors. This special card is offered to educators who teach for an independent school district, private or charter schools, or in homeschools settings. This is a way to give all educators, even if they don’t live inside city…… MORE
