AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Officials in Austin and Travis County are working to open space in the Austin Convention Center to care for COVID-19 patients as hospitalizations in Texas set a record high for the 13th consecutive day. Texas health officials on Saturday reported 13,935 COVID patients statewide. The Alternate Care Site in Austin announced Saturday…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A pizza delivery driver was robbed, kidnapped, and beaten Saturday in north Dallas. The 35 year old woman had just delivered a pizza at an apartment complex a block or so from the interchange of the President George Bush Turnpike and the Dallas North Tollway when a heavy set Latin man pulled…… MORE
Phoenix (AP) – A U.S. judge has blocked the Trump administration’s most sweeping set of asylum rules changes less than two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The changes had been set to take effect Monday. The judge’s ruling has limited immediate impact because the government has largely suspended all asylum at the U.S.-…… MORE
McKinney (WBAP/KLIF) – A Christmas tree fire damaged a McKinney home Saturday. Firefighters say the residents of that home put their left over Christmas tree in their home fireplace to burn it, but the tree was much larger than the fireplace so only the top of the tree would fit. When they put a match…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – State health officials say Texas coronavirus hospitalizations continue to edge closer to the 14,000 level as the string of record hospitalizations continues. State statistics show more than 13,900 COVID-19 patients hospitalized Friday in Texas. That marks the state’s 12th consecutive daily hospitalization record. The 372 new fatalities Friday bring the COVID-19…… MORE
Midland (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas house where former U.S. President George W. Bush spent his childhood is under study for possible designation as a national park. The National Park Service has scheduled a January 26 virtual meeting to review a special resource study on what has been named the George W. Bush Childhood Home. George…… MORE
Dickinson (WBAP/KLIF) – The race to be mayor of the Houston suburb of Dickinson finally ended during the week when the winner’s name was drawn out of a top hat. Sean Skipworth and Jennifer Lawrence each ran to be the next mayor of Dickinson, but after a runoff election last month, and a recount earlier…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — North Texas surpasses 450,000 positive tests for covid-19. Over 6,400 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus were detected in the Metroplex, Friday. Tarrant county reported two shy of 3,000 cases, Dallas county listed nearly 2,400, while Collin and Denton counties combined for more than a thousand newly infected residents. Dallas county was the…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Twitter says it is banning President Donald Trump from its platform, citing “risk of further incitement of violence.” The social media giant said Friday: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them – specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn received a briefing on Texas’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Friday from Department of State Health Services Commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt, Texas Department of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd, member of the State’s Expert Vaccine Allocation Panel Dr. John Zerwas, and DSHS Associate Commissioner of Laboratory & Infectious Diseases…… MORE
