Toledo, Ohio (AP) – Ohio State Police say a Texas man is in custody after leading troopers on a chase through three Ohio counties in a stolen ambulance. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says an ambulance reported stolen from Mercy Health St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Toledo was spotted parked on Route 24 in Lucas…… MORE
Austin (AP) – The death toll in Texas from the coronavirus inched nearer to 10,000 over the weekend, with 238 deaths reported on Saturday bringing the total to 9,840. The Texas Department of State Health Services said the number of reported cases increased by 8,245 to 528,838. The true number of cases is likely higher…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Texas leaders who grappled with coronavirus testing shortages for much of the pandemic are now facing the opposite problem: not enough takers. The number of coronavirus tests being done each day in Texas has dropped by the thousands in August, mirroring nationwide trends. The drop comes even as the number of deaths…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- As protest for racial injustice continue across the country, a group with a different cause has begun marching in the streets. #WheresOurChildren and #SaveTheChildren have been widely used on social media in recent months in order to spread awareness on pedophilia and human sex trafficking. The movement has gained nationwide popularity and multiple…… MORE
(AP) – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is showing more willingness to consider the points of view of players over kneeling during the national anthem. The owner who has taken the hardest line among his NFL counterparts against protesting during the anthem sidestepped the question of changing his policy requiring players to stand. Jones is…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas is reporting fewer than 7,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time in six weeks. But that encouraging sign Thursday was clouded by questions over testing as students return to school and college football teams push ahead with playing this fall. Testing has dropped off in Texas, a trend seen…… MORE
Texarkana (AP) – A federal judge in Texas has sentenced a former male stripper to more than 16 years in prison on charges linked to having a shank in jail, and threatening to have a white supremacist gang kill a witness. A federal jury acquitted Collin Hayden of gun and drug charges in March, but…… MORE
Austin (AP) – A group of doctors in Austin is warning police not to use so-called “less lethal” munitions for crowd control after they treated people who were severely hurt during protests in May. In a letter published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, 12 doctors from the Dell Seton Medical Center at…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Despite a slow but steady shrinkage in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases reported by Texas health officials, the virus is still spreading geographically. State officials say a Sterling County resident was reported Thursday as testing positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. That made the sparsely populated West Texas county near…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- A baby born at Parkland Hospital is believed to be the first in the country to contract COVID-19 while in her mother’s womb. WFAA-TV reports that Wendy Figueroa was 34-weeks pregnant, just six weeks away from delivery, when she tested positive for the Coronavirus. But two days later, her baby had to be delivered…… MORE
