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
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Professional tennis is returning to Dallas after being absent from the city for decades. GF Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment events and operations company, announced on Wednesday that the company is bringing an ATP 250 men’s tennis tournament to the new, Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex at SMU in Dallas, starting…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Transportation Security Administration is asking potential travelers to be aware that the security checkpoint experience looks much different to those who have not flown since the start of the COVID pandemic. TSA employees and airport personnel at Dallas Love Field Airport said on Tuesday that they are prepared to handle the increased…… MORE
GARLAND (WBAP/KLIF News) – Garland Police are investigating the death’s of a man and his eight-month-old baby, whose bodies were found at an apartment complex Tuesday evening. Officer responded to the apartment community in the 6300 block of Shiloh Road around 5:30 p.m. after a woman called 9-1-1 and said her baby was not breathing…… MORE
Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas has become the largest state with a law that bans abortions before many women even know they are pregnant. The measure signed Wednesday by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott puts Texas in line with more than a dozen other states that have so-called heartbeat bills. The measures ban abortions…… MORE
The Colony, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Colony Police say a man remains hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting early Monday as they continue a search for his missing pickup truck. After receiving numerous calls about the incident around 2:30 Monday morning, police found the man lying unresponsive in the street in the 2800 block…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas House lawmakers have reached a compromise bill on weatherizing the state’s power infrastructure. In the bill ( a rewrite of SB 3), unveiled on Tuesday, the state would require updating electrical generating plants and some natural gas wells, along with pipelines and compressors linked to them. But in what is perceived…… MORE
