TEMPLE, Texas (AP) – Authorities said a man has died after losing his legs last month while trying to save his fatally injured 4-year-old daughter when a houseboat ran over her on a Central Texas lake. Temple police say Patrick Oliver died Thursday at a hospital. Investigators said that after a houseboat backed over Kaitlyn Oliver on…… MORE
New York (WBAP/KLIF) – The best known private investment company in the United States has agreed to buy the state’s largest electricity distributor. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will pay $9 billion for Oncor. Oncor is the company that distributes electricity to about 10 million Texans. Its parent company, Energy Future Holdings Corp., entered bankruptcy in…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – Toyota Motor North America held the official grand opening of its new North American headquarters Thursday in Plano with a gala event attended by hundreds of partners and community leaders who had the first glimpse of Toyota’s new corporate campus. The company says their move to Texas that reaffirms the company’s longstanding…… MORE
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – The Trump administration says Texas has rid its voter ID law of any discriminatory effects and is asking a judge who once compared the measure to a “poll tax” to not take further action. The U.S. Justice Department under former President Barack Obama had previously joined minority rights groups in…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy. The Oklahoma City-based business agreed to pay a $3 million fine Wednesday over its role in what federal…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Baylor University has agreed to a settlement with one of several women who sued amid a sexual assault scandal that rocked the nation’s largest Baptist school. A settlement notice was filed in federal court in Texas on Thursday. No details were released. Several women have sued Baylor, alleging the university ignored…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – International applications to public universities in Texas have dropped by at least 10,000 over the past year, and some school officials cite President Donald Trump as a cause. A review of university data by the Houston Chronicle shows a 12.5 percent decrease in applications from international students last fall. That compares to…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Only hours after the ambush that killed five Dallas law enforcement officers, mental health experts began thinking ahead, searching for ways to ease the long-term effects of the attack on the men and women who patrol the nation’s ninth-largest city. Police psychologists in Dallas were quickly joined by counselors from the Houston…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – One year after the Dallas police ambush, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is among many reflecting on that night. Rawlings had just come back to Dallas after attending the funeral for his mother-in-law when he was alerted to the unfolding tragedy. It is something the mayor describes as hyper-real. “What you thought could…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Several San Antonio Police Officers who may not have been able to attend funeral services for one of their own, will now be going thanks to Dallas Police. Twenty Dallas Police Officers will take over patrols in San Antonio to allow officers to lay to rest Officer Miguel Moreno who was killed…… MORE
