WASHINGTON (AP) – The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and they show Republican-controlled Southern and Western states gaining congressional seats. The once-a-decade head count shows where the population grew during the past 10 years and where it shrank. Fast-growing Texas got enough people to merit two new House seats. Florida and North…… MORE
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to county judges across the state on Monday, asking them to send to the Governor’s office a full and accurate estimate of the fiscal impact the current surge of migrants at the southern border border is having on their respective counties. “Securing the border is the federal…… MORE
KELLER (WBAP/KLIF News) – Keller Police arrested the suspect in the hit-and-run death of a man walking with his wife last month. 38-year-old Kevin Patrick Garrity is charged with accident involving death, a second-degree felony. The victim, 58-year-old Feng Zhou, was killed while walking in the grass near their home in the 1100 block of…… MORE
(AP) – Young adults are leaving states such as New York and California for new destinations including Colorado, Florida and Texas. This migration over the past decade is helping reshape the country’s political power structure. This coming week, the U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release new population numbers showing the shift. And the data…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police say a woman in her 50s was shot and killed late last night, allegedly by a street racer at the intersection of Duncanville Road and Ledbetter. Mike Forbes from out media partner WFAA talked to a witness who says the woman was walking down Duncanville Road, when she reportedly exchanged…… MORE
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Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A number of North Texas gun dealers have been targeted by thieves in the past two weeks. 42 guns were stolen from three different gun dealers according to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms. Republic Arsenal in Coppell; Elliot White Gun Company in North Richland Hills; and SK Arms in…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is seeing 165 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population over the past two weeks, keeping the state in 40th place among the states and territories in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. Over the past two weeks, Texas has averaged almost 3,400 new cases per day. Johns Hopkins…… MORE
Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Early voting for the May 1 elections ends tomorrow. It’s a wide open field in for mayor races and city council seats across the metroplex. In Arlington and Fort Worth, there are almost 10 candidates running for mayor alone; also in Arlington, the local elections are the first since term limits voted…… MORE
DALLAS — Dallas-Fort Worth has less than a one-month supply of housing inventory on the market — and home prices are way up. Broker Michael Coburn says the lack of home choices for buyers makes the DFW market “unhealthy.” He says “One of the biggest things we see in this market is the amount of…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Texas health commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt says vaccine providers should resume using the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. Hellerstedt said in a statement that “scientific review over the last 11 days has affirmed its safety and effectiveness.” Federal health officials on Friday said they were lifting an 11 day pause on J&J…… MORE
