MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – The vacant City Council seat in McKinney was filled by a unanimous decision Tuesday night. The McKinney City Council appointed Pastor Christopher “Chris” Thornton to fill the District 1 seat left vacant after the recall vote of La’Shadion Shemwell in November. The recall election came after Shemwell was labeled a distraction by…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made an initial allotment of over 1.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to the State of Texas for the month of December, according to Governor Greg Abbott. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Governor said the vaccines, which should begin arriving in…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE (WBAP/KLIF News) – Grand Prairie Mayor Pro Tem and Council Member Jim Swoffard lost his battle with COVID-19 this week. According to a release from the City of Grand Prairie, the 84 year old died Tuesday with his two children by his side. Swoffard passed just weeks after losing his wife Judy to…… MORE
A USTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas has surpassed 9,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time since a deadly summer outbreak. The spread of the pandemic is now taking a toll even near the desert artist hub of Marfa, where tourists are putting locals on edge and officials are urging people to stay home. It’s…… MORE
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to shorten the recommended length of quarantine after exposure to someone who is positive for COVID-19, as the virus rages across the nation. According to a senior administration official, the new guidelines, which are set to be released as soon as Tuesday evening, will allow people…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas has “full resurgence” of COVID-19; so says the White House Coronavirus Task Force in a recent report. The report calls for proactive testing of Texas teachers, hospital staff and other community members to search for “silent spreaders,” and to place significant limits on the number of people gathering indoors. Details are…… MORE
UNDATED (WBAP/KLIF) – Three people from Tyler are in custody in Las Vegas following Thanksgiving Day shootings in the city before their arrests in rural Arizona. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, brothers Shawn & Christopher McDonnell, and Christopher’s wife Kayleigh Lewis were arrested after “several vehicle-to-vehicle shootings.” Christopher McDonnell told investigators his brother Shawn…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The city of Fort Worth, Tuesday, mirrored a Tarrant county decision regarding COVID-19 restrictions. The Fort Worth City Council, Tuesday, approved extending the city’s mask mandate through March 2nd of 2021. The decision is similar to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court vote last week to mandate masks through the end of February. Fort…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- India’s first-ever government plane, for flying dignitaries, recently flew non-stop from Fort Worth Alliance Airport to New Delhi, India. Tom Harris, President of Alliance Air Services says the plane covered roughly 8,000 miles in just over 15 hours and it was made possible by the airport’s milestone runway extension. “The extended runway…… MORE
AUSTIN – Another major corporation is expected to relocate to Texas. Governor Greg Abbott announced on Monday that Hewlett Packard Enterprise will move its global headquarters to Spring, Texas from San Jose, California. The headquarters will be located in a new state-of-the-art campus that will open in early 2022, building upon the company’s established presence…… MORE
