WACO, Texas (AP) – Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past. The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded…… MORE
Houston area pilot killed in early morning plane crash
Zavalla (WBAP/KLIF) – A 40 year old pilot was killed early Saturday morning when his small plane crashed as he tried to land on a private runway in East Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says James VanLue of Tomball was killed in the crash about 2:00 AM, but no one happened upon the…… MORE
Texas Restaurant Association Celebrates Mixed Drinks To-go Extension
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Restaurant Association is celebrating the extension from Governor Greg Abbott on allowing mixed drinks under the alcohol-to-go waiver. TRA President Dr. Emily Williams Knight says this is another helpful moment during the struggles in the coronavirus pandemic. “If you’re a restaurant that now that has a lot of bottles that…… MORE
Dallas County Breaks Record with Over 550 New Cases Saturday
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Another record breaking day with Dallas County reporting 561 new COVID 19 cases and seven deaths. “It is imperative that we all wear our masks outside of our homes and around other people,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted Saturday afternoon. “It’s up to all of us to flatten the curve and…… MORE
Lt. Gov Patrick on Fox: Governor’s Order is a Pause in Reopening
(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says Governor Greg Abbott’s action to close bars amid a rise in COVID-19 cases is simply a pause in the reopening process. Patrick on Fox News said state leaders must try to protect lives while also protecting a person’s liberty. “Right now, let’s take a week or ten…… MORE
No Police Reform Bill Just Yet…
HOUSTON (AP) – Without major changes in almost every state, a national police misconduct database like what the White House and Congress have proposed after George Floyd’s death would fail to account for thousands of problem officers. The outlook for a policing bill is newly uncertain after Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican proposal…… MORE
Changes to Confederate Symbols at Baylor University Could Be Coming
WACO, Texas (AP) – Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past. The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded…… MORE
Hundreds Of Central Texas Teens May Have Been Exposed To Coronavirus
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Health officials say about 300 teenagers were exposed to the coronavirus after a massive party in a Central Texas suburb last weekend. Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox says the party, called Pongfest, was attended by local high school students in the posh lakeside Austin suburb. According to Austin Public Health officials, some…… MORE
Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall
San Francisco (AP) – A federal appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of military money to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in two opinions Friday that diverting $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build the wall illegally sidesteps…… MORE
The Supreme Court rejects wide open vote by mail in Texas
Austin (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request by Texas Democrats to allow all of the state’s 16 million registered voters to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic. The denial Friday isn’t the end of the ongoing battle over mail-in voting in Texas but remains a loss for Democrats. Early voting…… MORE
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