Yearly Archives: 2024

Dallas County Launches Opioid Overdose Prevention Hotline

Dallas County Launches Opioid Overdose Prevention Hotline

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – North Texans now have access to a new opioid overdose prevention hotline. The service comes as communities nationwide, including Texas, grapple with the fentanyl crisis. It’s the result of a partnership between Dallas County Health and Human Services and the North Texas Poison Center, which operates inside Parkland Hospital. The…MORE

U.S. Sending 100 Troops and an Anti-Missile System to Israel

U.S. Sending 100 Troops and an Anti-Missile System to Israel

(WBAP/KLIF) – The Pentagon says the US will send an advanced anti-missile system — and US troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks. Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, says It is not the first time the US has deployed the system to the…MORE

Ted Cruz and Colin Allred Wage Another Big US Senate Fight in Texas

Ted Cruz and Colin Allred Wage Another Big US Senate Fight in Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Republicans have a stranglehold on every statewide elected office in Texas and control the state Supreme Court, both chambers of the Legislature and both U.S. Senate seats. And despite the state’s shifting demographics, a Democrat hasn’t won a statewide office there in 30 years. Still, Democrats hope a congressman from…MORE

Heavy Israeli Bombardment in Northern Gaza as Un Peacekeepers in Lebanon Are Hit Again

Heavy Israeli Bombardment in Northern Gaza as Un Peacekeepers in Lebanon Are Hit Again

BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians in northern Gaza are describing heavy Israeli bombardment in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people. Israel is warning people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups. The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said Saturday that…MORE