AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The first day of standardized testing in Texas has been canceled for thousands of students across several public school districts due to widespread technical issues. The technical glitch Tuesday morning caused a variety of problems for students taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, also known as STAAR. Students…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The UNT Health Science Center and Tarrant County continue their partnership to open more vaccination sites and get people vaccinated. Two sites are open so far, one in the Fort Worth Stop Six neighborhood at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church and the latest, a site at the Saginaw Recreation Center. Syliva Trent-Adams with the UNT…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Grab your helmets and walking shoes, because with sunny spring weather comes the return of Mayor Betsy Price’s moving town halls for the “Goodbye-cycle Tour,” Price’s final series of town halls as mayor of Fort Worth. Supported by Comerica Bank and FitWorth, the rolling and walking town halls will take place all…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick lashed out at big corporations and political leaders on Tuesday over continued push back against election legislation being considered in Austin. Patrick also hammered Major League Baseball for moving its All Star Game out of Atlanta because of recently passed elections laws in Georgia that tighten voting…… MORE
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas mother is jailed in the killings of her two young daughters. Officers arrested and charged 30-yearold Madison McDonald this week after they said she admitted to killing her daughters, 1-year-old Lillian Mae McDonald and 6-year-old Archer Hammond. According to Police, on Monday, at approximately 10:00 p.m. McDonald went to…… MORE
GRAYSON COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – Police departments across North Texas are mourning the loss of an off-duty Celina police officer and his young daughter who were killed in a chain reaction crash Monday afternoon. Celina city officials confirmed 33-year-old Detective KC Robinson and his six-year-old daughter Brynlee died at the scene. The accident happened around…… MORE
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Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order on banning government agencies and political subdivisions from creating a vaccine passport requirement. The order, dated April 5, also “prohibits organizations receiving public funds from requiring consumers to provide documentation of vaccine status in order to receive any service or enter any place.” In…… MORE
Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Houston accountant who narrowly loss to Lt, Gov Dan Patrick in 2018 is seeking a rematch in 2022. Democrat Mike Collier told the Dallas Morning News that he aims to hold Patrick accountable for failures like the Texas power emergency and the pandemic response. Collier added, “I’m convinced that not only…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) — Six people were found fatally shot in a suburban Dallas home early Monday after police say two brothers made a pact to kill four family members and themselves. Officers in Allen went to the home for a welfare check at around 1 a.m. after getting a call from a friend of one…… MORE
DALLAS — A man who worked as Dallas Fire-Rescue Captain died Monday morning while off-duty at his home, DFR posted on Facebook. Captain Reginald D. Williams died while asleep at his home. “He served the City of Dallas for 29 years and will be missed by all,” Dallas Fire-Rescue wrote in the post. “Our thoughts…… MORE
