DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson on Monday unveiled an ethics reform proposal produced by his task force on ethics. According to the Mayor, the task force’s recommendations would both simplify and strengthen the city’s ethics code while also placing an emphasis on improved training for city officials. The report can be read here. The…… MORE
Washington-AP (WBAP/KLIF) – Supreme Court meets to discuss adding new cases to blockbuster term Supreme Court justices are meeing behind closed doors on today to discuss what cases they’ll consider in the new term. The nine justices are under intense scrutiny after the the split decision on a 5-4 vote a controversial Texas abortion law…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Gas prices in the Metroplex are relatively unchanged over the past week. Residents of the Dallas area saw the cost of a gallon of regular unleaded at $2.88, down a penny. Tarrant County was a bit less at $2.87, while Houston had the cheapest gas in the country at $2.72. The average U.S.…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — After the bridge between two border communities was shut-down for more than a week, residents are looking for a return to normal. The towns of Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, were unable to travel along Independence bridge due to over 15,000 illegal Haitian migrants camped beneath. Since September 17th, that meant…… MORE
CIUDAD ACUÑA, México (AP) – Some of the thousands of Haitian migrants who briefly formed a camp in the Texas border town of Del Rio have found a helping hand across the river in the Mexican city of Ciudad Acuña. While U.S. officials announced the camp on the U.S. side had been cleared, an undetermined…… MORE
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they’re confident there will be enough for both qualified older Americans seeking booster shots and the young children for whom initial vaccines are expected to be approved in the not-too-distant future. The spike in demand — expected…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Police body-cam footage has been released in a case of alleged brutality against a homeless Dallas man. The video shows Dallas Fire Rescue paramedic Brad Cox kicking Kyle Vess in the head after he sat up off the ground. Vess was being detained by firefighters for being suspected of starting a roadside fire.…… MORE
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe has died in a shooting at house party less than a year after teammate Ty Jordan was killed in an accidental shooting. Salt Lake City police say the 21-year-old Lowe was killed just a few hours after the Utes beat Washington State 24-13. A second…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – If you received a COVID -19 vaccination from Denton County Public Health, be on the lookout for a text or email this week about scheduling a booster shot. According to an email from Denton County: The FDA, CDC, and the Texas Department of State Health Services recently approved booster doses for…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF)- Top leaders from Centurion American Development Group, along with Plano Mayor John Muns and other municipal leaders, broke ground today on the commercial portion of Plano’s Collin Creek development, a $1 billion mixed-use project to transform the Collin Creek Mall. The commercial portion of Collin Creek will include approximately 400,000 square feet of…… MORE
