(WBAP/KLIF) – Monday, October 5th is the last day to register to vote if you want to vote in the November 3rd election. You can register in person at your local election office or you can mail in an application. That application must be postmarked by Oct. 5th to qualify. If you are already registered…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A murder in Plano’s Jack Carter Park has been solved by police. 18 year old Jacob Lyle Rusk was targeted and shot by two men at the park, last week. Rusk later died of a fatal gunshot wound at an area hospital . Following an investigation, Plano police arrested 18 year old Rudhra Patel…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — An appeals court has refused to allow the Trump administration to continue detaining illegal immigrant children in hotel rooms before deporting them to their home countries. The rules had been adopted as a means to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Sunday upheld a…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Coronavirus has resulted in nearly 164,000 positive tests in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Health departments across the Metroplex reported almost 2,200 newly confirmed positive tests of COVID-19, Sunday. 453 positives occurred in Dallas county, 601 in Tarrant county, and Collin county reported 20 newly confirmed tests. In all, Dallas county is approaching 84,000…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A Texas-based company is closing its remaining coal-fired power plants in Illinois. Vistra Energy had already shuttered four Ilinois power plants in Canton, Coffeen, Havana and Hennepin and agreed to close another near Peoria as part of a legal settlement. However, the Houston-based company announced that it plans to close its four remaining Illinois…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas health officials report 2,181 newly reported positive Coronavirus tests and 33 additional deaths, Sunday. The one number not being reported by the state is how many of those newly reported positive tests came from the over 71,000 active cases of COVID-19. The Texas health department, reported a total of nearly 766,000 positive…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Several top deputies of Texas’ attorney general have accused him of crimes including bribery and abuse of office in an internal letter saying they’ve reported the actions to law enforcement. In a brief letter, seven senior lawyers wrote that they reported Republican Ken Paxton for potentially breaking the law “in his official…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas County reports 474 new positive cases of COVID-19, plus 154 older cases, and 21 probably cases, for a total of 638 confirmed cases. The county reported that diabetes has been an underlying high-risk health condition reported in about a third of all hospitalized patients with COVID-19. About 25 % of…… MORE
New York (AP) – Two former U.S. health officials tell AP that Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively seal the borders against immigrants and asylum seekers over the objections of its scientists. Three people with direct knowledge of the situation say…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Texas health officials report 3,346 newly reported coronavirus cases and 3,660 previous cases that had been unreported for a total increase of 7,006 cases. The Texas health department on Saturday reported 763,010 total cases and 15,992 deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. The department on Friday reported 756,004…… MORE
