WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The requirement of wearing a mask while taking public transportation now has federal backing. The Department of Homeland Security has given the Transportation Security Administration the authority to implement some tenets of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel. It requires travelers to wear…… MORE
Navarro County, TX (WBAP/KLID) – Amid a long battle with COVID-19 the Navarro County health director died Saturday afternoon. According to a post on his Facebook page, Dr. Kent Rogers faced the choice of being on a ventilator for a long term, but with already diminished lung capacity he “made the brave decision to move…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade will not step off down Greenville Avenue next month. On the parade’s official Facebook page, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban who has donated over $400,000 dollars to the parade since 2012, said that for “obvious reasons” the parade is canceled, but he’s looking forward to it’s return…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) The city of Dallas has partnered with Methodist Health System to help distribute over 47-hundred dozes of the pfizer vaccine arriving this week. Mayor Eric Johnson says the partnership will ensure faster and more efficient distribution and help alleviate scheduling and wait-time issues encountered at the Kay Bailey Hutchison center over the weekend.…… MORE
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
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
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
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 (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
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
