As of today, many Texas businesses will be rolling back capacity and occupancy levels as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter from the Texas Department of State Health Services written to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, it outlines that all restaurants, retail stores, office buildings, manufacturing facilities, gyms and exercise facilities, museums…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – A federal prosecutor says an Honduran man has been charged with harboring after he was found keeping watch of more than two dozen people who authorities say were being held in a Houston home as part of a human smuggling operation. Houston police say the smuggling operation was discovered Thursday evening after…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas health officials are moving nursing home residents to the front of the line for coronavirus vaccines. The change Friday comes after state health officials initially decided that only health care workers would have access to the first round of doses that are expected to arrive this month. The reversal comes…… MORE
Austin, Texas (AP) – The U.S. Department of Justice says 13 people have been charged in a probe into a drug ring largely operated by current and former University of Texas students that used apps and social media to sell counterfeit Adderall and Xanax often laced with fentanyl. Justice officials said 13 people have been…… MORE
Houston (AP) – A federal appeals court has ruled that a lower court was wrong to bar the Trump administration from taking $3.6 billion from military construction projects for a border wall. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday that El Paso County and the nonprofit Border Network for Human…… MORE
Irving (WBAP/KLIF) – An employee at an Irving car wash was killed Friday afternoon in a freak accident. Police say the 39 year old employee was caught in some machinery at Wash Masters Car Wash while trying to move a vehicle through the system. He was badly injured, and died at a local hospital.… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Proposed President-elect Joe Biden continues the process of filling cabinet positions before his expected inauguration on January 20th. Some of the nominations have raised the eyebrows of both Republicans and Democrats. Senator John Cornyn says he’s concerned about the lack of disclosed information regarding several of Biden’s nominees, especially those associated with foreign…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — President Trump’s battle to win the election through the court system has not produced any substantial victories. Lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona have been struck down in attempts to prove widespread voter fraud. Texas Senator John Cornyn feels the president is running out of time. A Nevada judge threw out the Trump…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Although Covid 19 vaccines are just around the corner research is still going on. The drug maker Astra Zeneca is looking for 250 north Texans to participate in its phase III trial of a Coronavirus vaccine. Researchers are looking for people who have an increased risk of contracting the virus such as…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Klyde Warren Park in Dallas announced this week that construction will begin on a next-generation, interactive ‘super-fountain,’ planned with far taller and more exciting jets than any other in the world. The fountain is funded by a $10 million Christmas gift from longtime Klyde Warren Park board member Nancy Best and her husband, Randy.…… MORE
