DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A number of North Texas businesses are playing it safe with talk of potential unrest after Tuesday’s election results are tallied. Stores and restaurants in Downtown Dallas, Victory Park, and parts of Fort Worth are boarding up windows in case of looting or riots. “We’re using a mallet and screwing them up…… MORE
HARRIS COUNTY(WBAP/KLIF)- About 127,000 drive-in votes in Harris County will be counted, per a ruling by a federal judge. A group of Republicans challenged the voting method, claiming it violates the U.S constitution, but the argument didn’t hold up in court. Governor Abbott said it was very unlikely that a court would throw out ballots…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- The Tarrant County Elections Office hired additional ballot board members after facing a shortage of workers available. “This was due to a variety of reasons. Most of them expressed concerns about the pandemic and having to work with multiple others around them and certain difficulties to achieve social distancing especially the work…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) — Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have decided to not make public how they voted this year. Bush spokesman Freddy Ford tells the Dallas Morning News that the Texas residents are keeping their votes to themselves. In 2016, Bush and his wife selected ”none of the above” on their…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Election day is tomorrow and politicians, advocacy groups and election officials are making their final pitch for Texans to continue to show up in record numbers at the polls. When early voting closed Friday, more than nine million votes had been cast in Texas. The numbers shattered the total vote count in…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — The actor Eddie Hassell, known for his roles in the NBC show “Surface” and the 2010 Oscar-nominated film “The Kids Are All Right,” has died after a shooting in Texas, police said. He was 30. The shooting happened early Sunday in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, police said. Grand…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, which led Democrats to cancel an event there. The president’s tweet came hours after the FBI confirmed that it was “aware of the incident and investigating.”…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – The Texas Supreme Court has denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state’s all-Republican high court on Sunday rejected the request from GOP activists and candidates without explaining its decision. The effort to have the Harris County ballots thrown out…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) If you’re receiving unemployment benefits in Texas, you have to start looking for work again to continue to qualify for those benefits. The Texas Workforce Commission reinstated the work search requirement on November 1st. The requirement which requires jobseekers to show three job searches per week was suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic. The…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – There will likely be long lines on Election Day even though 2016 records were broken in Texas before early voting was over. SMU Political Science Professor Dr. Cal Jillson says we are projected to see the highest voter turn out in over 100 years. “People are taking an extraordinary interest in this…… MORE
