DONNA, Texas (AP) – The Biden administration for the first time has allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children. A tour Tuesday revealed a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 migrants were crammed into a space intended for 250 and the youngest ones are kept in a large playpen…… MORE
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott said Tuesday that he sent a letter to Vice President — and newly named Border Czar — Kamala Harris demanding answers and swift action from the Biden Administration to address what he referred to as an “ongoing humanitarian crisis at the border.” In the letter, the Governor urged Vice President Harris to visit…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Following the announcement that all Texas adults are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the Texas Department of State Health Services launched the Texas Public Health Vaccine Scheduler. The scheduler gives people one place to sign up for a COVID-19 shot through multiple public health departments, including the eight DSHS public health regions,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The State of Texas is offering summer camps a way to protect against any potential COVID-19 outbreaks this summer. Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Division of Emergency Management announced on Tuesday, the creation of a COVID-19 Rapid Testing Program for Texas youth summer camps. According to the Governor, the program will…… MORE
COPPELL (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Coppell Independent School District has fired a teacher’s aide who was arrested Monday for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Coppell Police said 32-year-old Mercedes Genevieve Coloso is charged with sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child and improper relationship between an educator and student. The department…… MORE
GENEVA (AP) — A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. The findings offer little new…… MORE
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Minneapolis (WBAP/KLIF) – The second day of Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death is set to begin Tuesday with further questioning of a professional mixed martial arts fighter who stumbled onto the scene of the 46-year-old Black man’s final moments. Donald Wynn Williams II began testifying Monday as the third witness in the trial. Relying…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF) – President Joe Biden and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky are making impassioned pleas to Americans not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19; that, as new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are beginning to rise in the US again, Walensky warns of a potential “fourth surge” of…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – As of early Monday afternoon, the new address for the Dallas Police Department officially became 1400 S. Botham Jean Blvd. East Lamar Street between I-30 and South-Central Expressway was officially renamed on Saturday. From the Jack Evans Headquarters web page: “The new Jack Evans Police Headquarters building was completed in March 2003.…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Southwest Airlines says it’s expanding its all-Boeing fleet with an order for 100 737 MAX airplanes. The Max was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after two crashes that killed 346 people. Regulators in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Brazil and other countries have cleared the plane to resume flying after Boeing changed an…… MORE
