Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Coronavirus Cases For Texas Still Showing an Upward Trend

Coronavirus Cases For Texas Still Showing an Upward Trend

Austin (AP) – Texas health officials report more than 18,000 new or probable coronavirus cases and 332 more deaths due to the illness caused by the virus. The Texas health department on Saturday reported totals of more than 2 million virus cases and 36,320 deaths as a result of COVID-19. Data from Johns Hopkins University…MORE

Long-Term Care Facilities Left Waiting for Vaccinations

Long-Term Care Facilities Left Waiting for Vaccinations

Undated (AP) Frustration is building over the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations at long-term care sites, where some homes still await shots while fending off a virus that can devastate their residents. The major drugstore chains tasked with giving shots in these places are far along in vaccinating nursing home residents and staff. But some other…MORE

COVID-19 Continues Rampaging Through Texas

COVID-19 Continues Rampaging Through Texas

Austin (AP) – Texas health officials report more than 18,000 new or probable coronavirus cases and 332 more deaths due to the illness caused by the virus. The Texas health department on Saturday reported totals of more than 2 million virus cases and 36,320 deaths as a result of COVID-19. Data from Johns Hopkins University…MORE

Major Drug Trafficker Admits Guilt

Major Drug Trafficker Admits Guilt

Newport News, VA (WBAP/KLIF) – Federal authorities say the mastermind behind a large drug trafficking ring that operated in Texas and California as well as in Virginia and North Carolina has pleaded guilty to the charges against him. Forty four year old Ramiro Ramirez-Barreto admitted in a Newport News, Virginia courtroom that he ran a…MORE

Arlington Police Are Asking For Help

Arlington Police Are Asking For Help

Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Arlington Police are asking residents in and around the 900 block of Timberview Lane to check their outdoor surveillance videos for any sign of vehicles driving through the area between 4:00 PM and 4:30 PM Saturday. A hit-and-run driver killed an 80 year old man there who had just stepped outside to…MORE

Vaccine Shots for 9/11 Prisoners Now On Pause

Vaccine Shots for 9/11 Prisoners Now On Pause

Washington (AP) – The U.S. is backing off for now on a plan to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to the 40 prisoners held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Pentagon chief spokesman John Kirby says in a tweet that the Defense Department will be “pausing” the plan to give the vaccinations to those held…MORE

Undocumented Man Shot Trying to Cross into the U.S.

Undocumented Man Shot Trying to Cross into the U.S.

Hidalgo, Texas (AP) – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man trying to cross the border into the United States in Hidalgo, Texas. The agency says in a news release that the agent was investigating reports of people entering the U.S. illegally near the Hidalgo Port of…MORE

American Airlines Stock Caught in the Wall Street Wave

American Airlines Stock Caught in the Wall Street Wave

Dallas (AP) – American Airlines has seen its stock rise this week as it got caught up in turmoil between small investors and market traders who are betting against the company. With the share price a little higher, American struck a new deal with bankers on Friday to sell more than $1.1 billion in new…MORE

Soldiers Drank Antifreeze Component

Soldiers Drank Antifreeze Component

Fort Bliss (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Army confirms the 11 Fort Bliss soldiers who were hospitalized Thursday after injesting a toxic substance while on a field training exercise drank ethylene glycol, the primary chemical in antifreeze. The army says the soldiers had just finished a ten day exercise, and believed they were drinking some form…MORE

San Antonio Boy Makes A Killing With GameStop Stock

San Antonio Boy Makes A Killing With GameStop Stock

San Antonio (WBAP/KLIF) – A 10 year old San Antonio boy made a killing by selling GameStop stock he was given more than a year ago. Jaydyn Carr’s mother, Nina, spent $60 for 10 shares of the video game chain’s stock in December, 2019. She gave him the stock for Kwanzaa. With GameStop’s share price…MORE