AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A White House document prepared for the Coronavirus Task Force shows over 120 Texas counties, including those in the DFW metroplex are COVID-19 “red zones,” which mean areas that have reported new cases of about 100 per 100-thousand people in the last week; or a positivity rate over 10%. According to a…… MORE
Frisco ISD To Start Virtually
Frisco (WBAP/KLIF) – The Frisco ISD is moving to a virtual environment for the first three weeks of the 2020-21 school year, due to what it says is the “rapidly changing stiuation with COVID-19 and information from the Texas Education Agency.” In an email to parents, the district said the first day of school will…… MORE
Investigators: Texas Military Couple Defrauded Army Out of Millions
DALLAS (AP) – Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money from 10 bank accounts belonging to married U.S. Army veterans in Texas. Investigators allege that the pair used personal information stolen from soldiers to defraud the military. Neither Kevin Pelayo nor Cristine Fredericks has been charged with a crime, but Army…… MORE
Cooling Stations Open Across North Texas Providing Fans, Water, PPE and Food
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Salvation Army and Reliant Energy have opened 13 cooling stations across North Texas to help the community combat high heat exposure. Hundreds of cars looped around the Salvation Army’s Pleasant Grove Community Center in Dallas, one of the cooling sation locations, to pick up portable fans, water, PPE and even boxes of food. “Unfortunately,…… MORE
Dallas County Health Orders all Schools to Postpone In-Person Learning
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Dallas County Health Department is ordering all schools, public and private, to postpone in person learning until after September 8th. Dallas health officials released an order July 16th stating Dallas County is reporting record-high numbers of COVID-19 and COVID-19 related hospitalizations. The order says school systems shall not reopen for on campus, face-to-face…… MORE
Federal Reserve Optimistic that Cash Shortage will End with Pandemic
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The coronavirus pandemic has prompted a coin shortage in the United States that the Federal Reserve says is related to the recent economic shutdown in many state’s across the country. With limited in person transactions and fewer people going out, the less cash that was circulated. Now. many stores across the country asking customers…… MORE
Texas Restaurant Association Applauds Proposed Bill to Boost Resources for Restaurants, Food Banks
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Restaurant Association is applauding a bi-partisan bill proposed by Senator John Cornyn to provide more resources to restaurants and food banks during the coronavirus pandemic. Senator Cornyn worked with his colleague, Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), to introduce the “State Emergency Restaurant & Vendor Enhancement and COVID-19 Anti-Hunger Restaurant Relief For…… MORE
National Association of Police Organizations Endorses President Trump
WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News) – The National Association of Police Organizations has officially endorsed President Trump’s re-election campaign. In a statement, NAPO President Michael McHale said the endorsement recognizes Trump’s “steadfast and very public support for our men and women on the front lines during this time of unfair and inaccurate opprobrium being directed by…… MORE
Jobless Aid Stuck at 1.3M; Congress Eyes New Virus Aid; McConnell Says, ‘Virus is not going away’
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits remained stuck at 1.3 million last week, an historically high level that indicates many companies are still cutting jobs as the viral outbreak intensifies. The elevated level of applications for jobless aid is occurring as new confirmed cases of coronavirus are spiking across much…… MORE
KLIF Morning News: Funding the FWPD, and a Trump Campaign Shake-up
0:29 — Fort Worth voted NO to defunding the police this week, so Amy & Scott caught up with the President of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association, Manny Ramirez, to talk about what it means to the department. 8:53 — President Trump has shaken up his campaign team, and he’s also changing how COVID…… MORE
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