DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Fidelity investments plans to hire 550 financial advisers, licensed representatives and customer service workers in Dallas-Fort Worth. The company says the jobs are needed due to increased trading activity and pandemic-related demand for financial services. The new hiring round comes only a few months after the company announced it would add some…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is presenting herself as a judge with deeply held personal and religious beliefs, but one who vows to keep an “open mind” on cases coming to the court. She faced a final round of questioning Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republicans champion her conservative approach…… MORE
NEW BOSTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Family, friends and community members are rallying around an East Texas family whose loved one was killed in a gruesome murder-for-baby plot. New Boston Police said 22-year-old Reagan Hancock was killed and her baby was cut from her womb last Friday by someone she considered a to be a friend.…… MORE
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is back before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a third day of her confirmation hearings Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is back before the Senate Judiciary Committee to face more questions from senators at her confirmation hearing. Tuesday’s session lasted nearly 12 hours. Barrett declined to voice an…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police officers made a daring rescue last night to rescue a woman who reportedly drove her car into a lake at William Blair Jr. Park. Police say several officers formed a human chain to pull a man and woman from the car that was submerged. Officers then performed CPR on the…… MORE
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys signed quarterback Garrett Gilbert off Cleveland’s practice squad Tuesday after Dak Prescott’s season-ending ankle injury. Gilbert played at Texas and SMU before he was drafted by the Rams, who were then in St. Louis, in the sixth round in 2014. Dallas is the seventh organization for Gilbert, who…… MORE
Austin, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Workforce Commission has reinstated the work search requirement for for people receiving unemployment benefits. TWC spokesman Cisco Gamez says the information must be submitted beginning with the November 15th claim. “To be eligible for benefits claimants will need to register at workintexas.com; if you live another state you must…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Texas cannot ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that Republican-led statehouses across the U.S. have sought to outlaw in recent years. The law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in 2017 was never enforced and was previously blocked by a federal judge in Austin.…… MORE
El Paso (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott is sending a surge team of medical professionals to El Paso to deal with an ongoing wave of COVID-19 cases. The 75 doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists will be accompanied by a supply of extra personal protective equipment to help El Paso hospitals meet the rapidly increasing number…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County’s Elections Department says the first day of early voting brought tens of thousands of voters to the polls. The count when the polls closed was 56,257 ballots cast in Dallas County. That, of course, does not include any of the other counties in Texas. The elections department says the polls…… MORE
