FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — A family of three from South Fort Worth is in the hospital after house caught late Wednesday night. The Fort Worth Fire Department says they got the call just before midnight on Wednesday. “They had some people in the front yard of the house that had already evacuated and…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday to spend nearly $2 million improving security at the Police Department’s headquarters. It did so more than two years after the lobby was shot up by a man firing at officer’s through the building’s windows. The project will be funded with unspent money leftover from 1998…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A capital murder warrant has been issued for 17-year-old Jayden Blanton, accused of fatally shooting a man outside of a gas station near Executive Airport on August 20. The 35-year-old victim was on his way home from work when he stopped at a convenience store on Ledbetter Drive for gas. He…… MORE
BEAUMONT (WBAP/KLIF News) – Concern is growing from some state and local leaders about prisoners who reportedly were never evacuated from federal prisons in Beaumont during and after Tropical Storm Harvey. The Prisoners Legal Advocacy Network’s Paul Holdorf said prisoners are suffering from sub-par conditions. “Prisoners who are in fragile health, especially those who are diabetics…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Police are investigating the murder of an elderly woman, who was found dead inside her home Wednesday morning. The department’s Homicide Unit responded to 71-year-old Norma Kakacek’s home on Paldao Drive just south of Spring Valley Road around 10:30. Investigators said Kakacek’s body was found with signs of homicidal violence. There…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Senator John Cornyn says the money approved by Congress to help in the hurricane relief effort in Southeast Texas is only the beginning. Cornyn called the federal aid a down payment. “I’m committed to working together with the entire Texas delegation,” Cornyn said in a conference call to reporters Wednesday. Cornyn says they…… MORE
(CNN) — When Sen. Bernie Sanders did this in 2013, he did it alone. On Wednesday, nearly four years later, Sanders introduced a new “Medicare for all” health care bill with a third of the Senate Democratic caucus by his side. Flanked at first by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal,…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – The Houston area hawk who received national attention after finding safety in a taxi cab during Hurricane Harvey is back in the wild. After going through rehabilitation in North Texas, ‘Harvey the Hawk’ was released at the Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve in Plano. William Bruso is the cab driver who…… MORE
TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The United States Supreme Court handed a win to Republicans in Texas by putting rulings on hold that found electoral districts drawn by state lawmakers discriminatory against minority voters. The court blocked two lower court decisions that found fault with congressional and state legislative districts drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature. Texas…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Police in Dallas are investigating whether or not a home invasion that a mother dead is connected with two others that happened earlier in the week. Roselia Paz was found dead in her home Tuesday afternoon — her two-year-old son was also found in the home alive. The two other home…… MORE
