Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Texas Surges Resources to El Paso Amid Spike in COVID-19 Hospitalizations

Texas Surges Resources to El Paso Amid Spike in COVID-19 Hospitalizations

(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Friday that the U.S. Department of Defense has deployed three U.S. Air Force Medical Specialty Teams to assist the state’s efforts to combat COVID-19 in El Paso. According to the Governor, the teams consist of 20 military medical providers each and will support three El Paso city…MORE

Biden Leads Trump in Pennsylvania Vote Count

Biden Leads Trump in Pennsylvania Vote Count

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrat Joe Biden is now leading President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. By Friday morning, Biden overtook Trump in the number of ballots counted in the state, which Trump must win to have a shot at reelection. The contest is still too early for The Associated Press to call.…MORE

Fort Hood Soldier Charged with Murder in Woman’s 2019 Death

Fort Hood Soldier Charged with Murder in Woman’s 2019 Death

KILLEEN (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Fort Hood soldier has been charged with murder in the case of a woman who was found dead in a Killeen Day Inn motel room in July of 2019. Killeen Police arrested 20-year-old Spc. Cory Grafton this week in connection to the death of 32-year-old Chelsea Cheatham. An autopsy at the…MORE

Unemployment Drops to 6.9% and US Adds a Solid 638,000 jobs

Unemployment Drops to 6.9% and US Adds a Solid 638,000 jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs in October, a solid pace though far fewer than needed to regain most of the jobs lost to the pandemic recession just as new viral cases are setting record highs. The October gain suggested that a tentative economic recovery may remain intact even  in the face of…MORE

Cowboys Will Have 4th Starting QB of Season Against Steelers

Cowboys Will Have 4th Starting QB of Season Against Steelers

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas receiver CeeDee Lamb stammered briefly when asked about his first practice with Cooper Rush and Garrett Gilbert as those two quarterbacks compete to start against Pittsburgh. “We recently got Coop … Cooper … Rush. Cooper Rush,” Lamb said, the rookie finally putting the full name together. And that’s the guy…MORE

Absentee Ballot Count Leads to Biden Topping Trump in Tarrant County

Absentee Ballot Count Leads to Biden Topping Trump in Tarrant County

Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The ongoing absentee ballot count in Tarrant county has put Joe Biden on top by a few hundred votes. As ballots are still being counted in Texas, Joe Biden has pulled ahead of President Trump as a result of votes tallied from the Fort Worth area.   The numbers won’t change the…MORE

US Postal Service Found 815 Ballots in Texas Mail Processing Facility Sweeps

US Postal Service Found 815 Ballots in Texas Mail Processing Facility Sweeps

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – More than 800 mail ballots were found in Texas mail processing facilities and delivered to county election officials between Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the U.S. Postal Service. According to the document submitted by USPS on Wednesday, 815 ballots were found across the state between the two sweeps and transported to…MORE

Texas AG’s Affair Tied to Criminal Allegations

Texas AG’s Affair Tied to Criminal Allegations

DALLAS (AP) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had an extramarital affair with a woman whom he later helped get a job with a real estate developer at the center of recent criminal allegations against the Republican. Two people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, citing fears about retaliation, say that…MORE

Dallas Police Officer Shot Near El Centro College Campus

Dallas Police Officer Shot Near El Centro College Campus

(WBAP/KLIF) — A Dallas College police officer was shot, Thursday night, in downtown Dallas.  According to Warren Mitchell with Dallas police, the officer was investigating a vehicle disturbance involving the suspect near the El Centro campus, when the two exchanged gunfire. Both the officer and suspect were hit and transported to a local hospital. The officer’s…MORE

President Trump Accuses Democrats of Stealing the Election

President Trump Accuses Democrats of Stealing the Election

(WBAP/KLIF) —  President Donald Trump says that he is being cheated in a race that is still too close to call.  The President from the White House moments ago says – in his words “if you count the legal votes”, he easily wins. The President also called election polling as election interference. President Trump at the…MORE