WASHINGTON (AP) — Some notable quotes from Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor and current judge on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he was nominating Barrett to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ___ ON…… MORE
LAKE JACKSON, Texas (AP) – Environmental officials in Texas have lifted a warning for a final Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe, but with a warning that the water should be boiled before being consumed. Earlier this month, 6-year-old Josh McIntyre died after contracting…… MORE
(AP) – President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Trump has fiercely guarded his tax filings, becoming the only president in modern times not to make them public.…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas health officials report 1,292 new coronavirus cases and 37 additional deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. The Texas Department of State Health Services on Sunday reported 735,132 coronavirus cases and 15,522 deaths. The true number of cases is likely higher though because many people haven’t been…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Memorial services for Ceasar Rios are scheduled for Monday at 10a.m. Rios was a driver engineer with Dallas Fire Rescue for nearly a decade. He was a native of dallas, but died in a motorcycle accident in Nebraska on September 20th. Services will be held at Concord Church on Pastor Bailey Drive…… MORE
Houston (AP) – NASA astronaut Kate Rubins tells The Associated Press she plans to cast her next vote from space – more than 200 miles above Earth. Rubins and two cosmonauts are in Star City, Russia, just outside Moscow. She’s preparing for a mid-October launch and a six-month stay at the International Space Station. Texas…… MORE
Longview (AP) – An East Texas county commissioner and three other people have been indicted on charges that they fraudulently solicited mail-in votes from able-bodied voters by claiming they were disabled, often without the voters’ knowledge or consent. Gregg County Commissioner Shannon Brown and three paid workers of Brown’s 2018 Democratic primary campaign are charged…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police are working on a triple homicide. Three bodies were found Saturday inside a motel room near Loop 12 and Northwest Highway. Police say all three died of homicidal violence, but they haven’t said what kind of violence, and have released few other details.… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The number of COVID-19 deaths continues to drop across Texas. The North Texas Coronavirus death toll sits at more than 1,900, while statewide there have been nearly 15,500 fatalities. Dallas county reports 1,017, Tarrant county 653, Collin 145, and Denton county 109. Texas officials say over 733,000 positive tests have occurred in the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – As expected by Republicans earlier this week, President Donald Trump has announced Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Nomination For the U.S. Supreme Court. (Copyright 2020 WBAP/KLIF News. All Rights Reserved.)… MORE
