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2021 AT&T Byron Nelson Generates $5.5M for Momentous Institute

2021 AT&T Byron Nelson Generates $5.5M for Momentous Institute

MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – The Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas announced this week that the 2021 AT&T Byron Nelson raised $5.5 million for Momentous Institute in its inaugural year at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney. The Salesmanship Club said that the net proceeds reflect tremendous support even though COVID-19 protocols limited crowd capacity to 25%…MORE

Garland Police Make Arrest in Triple Murder Case, Two Suspects Still At Large

Garland Police Make Arrest in Triple Murder Case, Two Suspects Still At Large

GARLAND (WBAP/KLIF News) – Garland Police are crediting surveillance video with helping detectives make an arrest in a triple murder this week. Three men were shot and killed outside the Orchard Hills Apartment on West Kingsley and Saturn Roads on Monday. 25-year-old Maria Fernanda Molina was arrested and charged with capital murder and is being held…MORE

Demonstrators Against Masks Protest Outside Dallas County Judge’s Home

Demonstrators Against Masks Protest Outside Dallas County Judge’s Home

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Demonstrators showed up at the home of Dallas County Judge Clay jenkins Last night, angry about his mask mandate in schools and certain businesses. Others meantime praised Jenkins on social media for taking the action, in defiance of Governor Abbott’s statewide mask mandate ban for government entities. Protest Happening now outside Dallas…MORE

Census data sets up redistricting fight over growing suburbs

Census data sets up redistricting fight over growing suburbs

The once-a-decade battle over redistricting is set to be a showdown over the suburbs, as new census data showed rapid growth around some of the nation’s largest cities and shrinking population in many rural counties. From Texas to Florida, some of the biggest gains reported Thursday came in states where Republicans will control the redistricting…MORE

Texas DPS Deputized to End Democrats’ Holdout

Texas DPS Deputized to End Democrats’ Holdout

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Republican officials in Texas say law enforcement has now been deputized to help bring Democrats back to the state Capitol and end a standoff over a GOP voting bill. The move to bring in law enforcement came a day after officers of the Texas House of Representatives served civil arrests warrants to…MORE

Extra COVID Vaccine OK’d For Those With Weak Immune Systems

Extra COVID Vaccine OK’d For Those With Weak Immune Systems

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. health regulators have authorized an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in people with weakened immune systems to better protect them from the virus. The announcement Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration applies to millions of Americans who take immune-suppressing medicines because of organ transplants, cancer or…MORE

Texas Land Commissioner Continues Suit Against President Biden

Texas Land Commissioner Continues Suit Against President Biden

(WBAP/KLIF) — The decision by the Biden administration to halt construction of the border wall has prompted a lawsuit from the Texas Land Commissioner. The results of an open border policy has devastated Texas border towns and exposed the Lone Star state to a surge in COVID-19.  Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush says his suit…MORE

2020 Census Data Gives Congressional Power To Texas

2020 Census Data Gives Congressional Power To Texas

(WBAP/KLIF) — Newly released Census data shows four of the nation’s ten fastest-growing municipalities are suburbs of big cities in Texas. That means the second-largest state in the U.S. could play a big part in the redistricting battle for control of congress.  The new data pulled from the 2020 Census is coming more than four…MORE

MD7 Moving Headquarters to Allen, Bringing 200+ Jobs to Region

MD7 Moving Headquarters to Allen, Bringing 200+ Jobs to Region

ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF)-Governor Greg Abbott announced that MD7, LLC, a mobile infrastructure consultancy, will relocate its corporate headquarters to Allen, Texas. The project will create 218 new jobs and more than $6.8 million in capital investment. A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant of $773,000 has been extended to MD7, which includes a $10,000 Veteran Created Job…MORE

Texas Senate Passes Elections Bill after 15-Hour Filibuster

Texas Senate Passes Elections Bill after 15-Hour Filibuster

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Senate, on Thursday, again passed its version of a Republican-led voting bill. The Senate passed the bill in the regular session, the first special session, and now the second. But this time around an overnight filibuster delayed the process. In her tennis shoes on the Senate Floor, Democrat Carol Alvarado…MORE