PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) – The co-founder of the “We Build The Wall” project aimed at raising money for a border wall has been indicted on a second tax charge in Florida, adding to an earlier tax charge and fraud charge. A federal grand jury in Pensacola indicted Brian Kolfage on a charge of filing a…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Electric Reliability Commission of Texas (ERCOT) has released a list of 1,280 unplanned outages already this summer form generators powering the state. Data shows that at least 224 of those outages happened from june 14 to june 18 when Texans were urged to conserve energy. The report on Wednesday came a…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Department of Transportation crews will close roadways in southwest Fort Worth this weekend for construction. I-20 westbound will be reduced to one lane from Bryant Irvin Road to Winscott Road for construction from 9 p.m. Saturday, July 10, to 6 a.m. Monday, July 12, weather permitting. Various ramp closures may also be…… MORE
BEDFORD (WBAP/KLIF)- Hospitals all over the U.S. are scrambling to get blood supply as donor sites face all time low blood shortages. Linda Goelzer with Carter BloodCare says it’s the lowest levels they’ve ever seen in DFW. “Some people in the industry are calling it a 30-year low because they’ve never seen such shortages like…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden says the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31. He says “speed is safety” as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war. Biden spoke Thursday to update his administration’s ongoing efforts to wind down the U.S. war in Afghanistan. He said: “We did…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- A Fort Worth woman has filed a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation, I-35 Tarrant County tollway operators and maintenance companies, and various trucking company owners and operators over a massive multi-fatality pileup on Interstate 35 in February that killed her husband. The lawsuit was filed on…… MORE
TOKYO, Japan (AP) – Fans are banned from the upcoming Tokyo Olympics as the city falls under a state of emergency due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, including the highly-contagious Delta variant. The International Olympics Committee and Japanese organizers announced the ban which comes months after fans from oversees were blocked from attending. The…… MORE
CHICAGO (AP) – An Iowa man – 32-year old Keegan Casteel – who was in custody in Chicago after police found a rifle with a laser sight and several rounds of ammunition in a hotel room that overlooks a Lake Michigan beach during the July Fourth weekend made bond and then proposed to his girlfriend…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – Senator John Cornyn joined fellow Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina in a letter this week asking Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, to consider a bill that would give permanent legal status to temporary residents allowed to stay in the U.S. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. In 2017,…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country’s biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. But legal experts say the suits are likely doomed to fail, given existing precedent and legal protections. Trump announced the action Wednesday against Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube…… MORE
