Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A state legislator has won a state senate runoff against Dallas hair salon owner Shelley Luther. Representative Drew Springer who was backed by Governor Greg Abbott defeated fellow Republican Shelly Luther who was jailed in May for defying the governor’s coronavirus restrictions. Turnout in Saturday’s special election was low. Governor Abbott reportedly…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – California state health restrictions won’t allow the Rose Bowl to have fans attend the game in person during that state’s resurgent pandemic, so the organizers of the college football playoffs announced Saturday night the Rose Bowl game will be relocated to the home of the Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium in Arlington. It…… MORE
TEXAS CITY – Associated Press (WBAP/KLIF) – A private autopsy on the body of a 22 year old man shot dead at the hands of police appears to show the man died of a single gunshot to his back. 22 year old Joshua Feast died December 9th, reportedly shot by La Marque police officer Jose…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Lawyers say the U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm that requires surgery. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley, Texas, detention center diagnosed the girl with a fracture…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott says more than 1 million Texans are expected to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by the end of the month. Speaking Thursday at a press conference in Austin, the governor said 224,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine will be delivered this week in Texas. Next week, the number is expected…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Judge Janis Graham Jack found the state in contempt for exposing thousands of children in its foster care program to what she says is “an unreasonable risk of serious harm.” Judge Jack is threatening to levy fines of $75,000 a day beginning January 3rd unless she gets an electronic readout of each…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas unemployment rate increased to 8.1% in November, from 6.9% in October. That means Texas is well above the national average, and has been for more than four months. It also means more than 290,000 DFW residents are out of work, and looking. The problem for them is there are now…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The state of Texas is nearing 1.4 million cases of COVID-19 as a second vaccine is about to be shipped. The Texas death toll is closing in on 25,000. North Texas is just one death shy of 3,000 lives taken by the pandemic. Dallas county has over 1,400 fatalities, Tarrant county almost 1,100, while…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — F-D-A Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn announced another approval in the fight against the Coronavirus… the Moderna brand COVID 19 vaccine. Hahn says distribution will be swift. This comes about one week after the F-D-A approval of the Pfizer -BioNTech vaccine. The emergency use authorization allows the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to be distributed in the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- For those parking and traveling out of Dallas Love Field this holiday season, especially Dallas Mavericks fans, there is a wonderful surprise. And just in time for the NBA tip off, too. The airport has opened Garage C with a Dallas Mavericks themed floor designed by local graffiti artist Tex Moton and 5,000…… MORE
