AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A special election runoff in Texas senate District 30 is weeks away and Governor Greg Abbott is getting behind one of the candidates. Senate District 30 includes the counties of Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Erath, Grayson, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wichita, Wise, and Young. Republicans Drew Springer and Shelley Luther…… MORE
Dallas, TX (WBAP?KLIF) – A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based bank has bought the naming rights to Victory Plaza outside the American Airlines Center. PNC Bank made the move after establishing itself in the southeast region with purchase of BBVA USA last month, according to the Dallas Morning News. The goal has since been to find a high-profile…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF News) – It’s Giving Tuesday and organizations across North Texas are urging residents to help the community’s most vulnerable populations. The North Texas Food Bank has partnered with HungerMitao to match any donation made today, December 1st, up to $100,000. The food bank said the money will provide twice as many meals to…… MORE
UNDATED (AP) – The TSA says nearly 1.2 million people went through U.S. airports on Sunday. That’s the highest number since the coronavirus pandemic gripped the country back in March. And the uptick came despite the pleadings of public health experts for people to stay home over Thanksgiving to limit further spreading the virus. The…… MORE
ATLANTA (AP) – Some establishment Republicans are sounding alarms that President Donald Trump’s conspiratorial denials of his own defeat could threaten the party’s ability to win a Senate majority and counter President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. The concerns come ahead of Trump’s planned Saturday visit to Georgia to campaign alongside Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — In a season of so much uncertainty, the Dallas Cowboys can count on one thing: being alone in last place in the NFL’s worst division going into Week 13. While the Cowboys will say there’s still hope because no team in the NFC East will have more than one win than…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price is back at work after a two week fight against Covid-19, which included a new antibody treatment. Price says her doctor told her she was a good candidate for the I-V treatment called Bamlanivimab. She says she was diagnosed with covid on the November 17th and received…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Mayor of Dallas is targeting entrepreneurship as a way for the city’s economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. “We want this economy to lead the nation in the recovery from COVID-19,” said Mayor Eric Johnson. “That’s going to help us get out of the pandemic faster and recover economically, quicker.”…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- As temperatures are expected to drop below freezing tonight the City of Dallas, local homeless shelters and churches are making sure thousands of unsheltered homeless have a warm place to sleep. “In Dallas, on any given night, there’s 10,000 homeless people when we only have 2,300 shelter beds so the vast majority have…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A continued rise in covid-19 hospitalizations could bring more COVID-19 restrictions to North Texas. Per Governor Abbott’s executive order, bars must close and other businesses reduce capacity to 50% if the the COVID-19 hospitalization rate in a particular trauma service area stays above 15% for seven days. Dallas County Medical Director Phil…… MORE
