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
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- As early voting is underway the Better Business Bureau is warning North Texans about election scams. Amy Rasor with the Fort Worth BBB said the number of registered voters increased this year, so expect to see more scams. “Voting scams can take many forms, including robocalls asking for donations to a political…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Dallas County Commissioners Court is still looking into how they’ll spend a $15 million grant received from the Center for Technology and Civic Life for the November Election. During Monday’s meeting, the Commissioners Court was supposed to address the grant used for PPE, equipment and other things needed for early voting and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Democrat leaders in Texas spent Tuesday afternoon working to made good on a pledge to turn the state blue. Congressman Colin Allred, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, and others were joined by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden, for a “Get Out the Vote” Rally at Fair Park. As…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett could result in a voters making changes in Congress and the White House come November. Constitutional Law historian David Coale says there is great incentive for both Democrats and Republicans to dig in at hearing. “Are the Senators trying to inform each other or…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The first day of early voting in November’s general election brought big crowds to the polls in North Texas on Tuesday. Long lines were reported at many polling places but poll workers kept voters socially distanced the best they could. The American Airlines Center and the Allen Events Center both opened as mega…… MORE
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – An FBI agent testified during a court hearing in Michigan that members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio. Special Agent Richard Trask was part of the investigation that led to six men being arrested and charged last week with plotting to kidnap…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A joint investigation between Fort Worth Police and the U.S. Secret Service led the arrest and conviction of a North Texas man who videotaped the sexual assault of a child. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox said 34-year-old Chester Devin Leban of Fort Worth was…… MORE
Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas restrictions allowing only a single drop-box for mail-in ballots in each county were reinstated by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The ruling late Monday sided with Governor Greg Abbott who on Oct. 1 ordered the shuttering of multiple drop boxes where thousands of ballots in some of Texas’s largest…… MORE
