HOUSTON (AP) – State data show about 60% of the COVID-19 vaccine doses that have spoiled since Texas’ vaccination program began in December were wasted in the past two weeks. The Houston Chronicle’s analysis shows demand for the vaccine is plummeting in Texas. The roughly 36,000 vaccine doses spoiled in the past two weeks are…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Atatiana Jefferson’s sister, Ashley Carr, filed a 10 million dollar wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Fort Worth, former Police Chief Ed Kraus, Mayor Betsy Price and Aaron Dean, the former police officer who is charged in the shooting death of Jefferson inside her home in October 2019. The suit demands…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF)-Concept designs for the City of McKinney’s new Municipal Community Complex were presented at the City Council work session Tuesday. Architects from Lake | Flato + Parkhill showed the designs that focused on floor plans for Council Chambers and the various city departments housed in the building. The design team presented the following six guiding principles for the project:…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists announced on Thursday that they have identified the first two cases of the B.1.617.2 (Indian origin) variant of COVID-19 infection in North Texas using next-generation sequencing technologies along with targeted PCR testing. According to officials at UT Southwestern, the emergence of the Indian variant is concerning because it…… MORE
CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF) – The Carrollton Police Department is investigating an early morning shooting in the Police department parking lot. According to Police, three officers were standing in the parking lot in civilian clothes before the 5 a.m. shift change on Thursday when someone drove by and opened fire. “First they heard a gunshot, which got…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Fort Worth Police are touting a new plan to decrease violent crime after what the department calls an “unfortunate” increase in murder. Officers recently responded to four murders in four days. Last year, 112 people lost their lives to violence, that’s a 26 year high. The department said unfortunately, officers…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 444,000, a new pandemic low and a sign that the job market keeps strengthening as consumers spend freely again, viral infections drop and business restrictions ease. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 34,000 from a revised 478,000…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Kluber stopped for a moment before his first pitch of the ninth inning. “I had to take a breath after the warmups and calm myself down a little bit,” said the pitcher nicknamed Klubot for his robot-like demeanor. Kluber then finished the sixth no-hitter in the majors this season and…… MORE
SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) – Officials say a Texas man accused of torturing and killing four kittens had worked as a geometry teacher at a Houston-area high school before his arrest. Twenty-nine-year-old Graham Reid, of Sugar Land, faces four counts of felony cruelty to non-livestock animals. The Fort Bend Independent School District said in a…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening without media witnesses present because prison agency officials neglected to notify reporters it was time to carry out the punishment. Quintin Jones received the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in…… MORE
