Former Dallas Cowboys Tight End Jason Witten Named Head Football Coach at Argyle Liberty Christian

ARGYLE (WBAP/KLIF)- A former long time Dallas Cowboy tight end will be coaching a local high school football team. Jason Witten has been named the head coach at Liberty Christian school in Argyle. Witten, who spent his last season with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 is taking his talents back to North Texas, to Coach.…MORE

DHS Gives TSA Authority to Enforce President Biden’s Mask Mandate on Commercial and Public Transport

WASHINGTON  (WBAP/KLIF News) – The requirement of wearing a mask while taking public transportation now has federal backing. The Department of Homeland Security has given the Transportation Security Administration the authority to implement some tenets of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel. It requires travelers to wear…MORE

Beloved Navarro County Health Director Dies of COVID-19; Bravely Opted Not to Go on Ventilator

Navarro County, TX (WBAP/KLID) – Amid a long battle with COVID-19 the Navarro County health director died Saturday afternoon. According to a post on his Facebook page, Dr. Kent Rogers faced the choice of being on a ventilator for a long term, but with already diminished lung capacity he “made the brave decision to move…MORE

Dallas’s Largest St. Paddy’s Day Parade Canceled for 2021

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade will not step off down Greenville Avenue next month. On the parade’s official Facebook page, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban who has donated over $400,000 dollars to the parade since 2012, said that for “obvious reasons” the parade is canceled, but he’s looking forward to it’s return…MORE

Dallas Teams Up With Methodist After KBH Vaccine Debacle

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) The city of Dallas has partnered with Methodist Health System to help distribute over 47-hundred dozes of the pfizer vaccine arriving this week. Mayor Eric Johnson says the partnership will ensure faster and more efficient distribution and help alleviate scheduling and wait-time issues encountered at the Kay Bailey Hutchison center over the weekend.…MORE

Texas Will Get More Vaccine Than Expected This Week

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas is scheduled to get more than 520,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, more than state officials said they had originally expected to receive Texas Department of State Health Services officials said the boost in doses is due to two factors: a 30% increase in the Moderna vaccine that’s being…MORE

Coronavirus Cases For Texas Still Showing an Upward Trend

Austin (AP) – Texas health officials report more than 18,000 new or probable coronavirus cases and 332 more deaths due to the illness caused by the virus. The Texas health department on Saturday reported totals of more than 2 million virus cases and 36,320 deaths as a result of COVID-19. Data from Johns Hopkins University…MORE

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