(WBAP/KLIF) – School administrators across the country are working this summer to create policy that make schools safer. The Texas Private Schools Association is encouraging private schools in the state to consider the School Marshal Program. Some rural Texas school districts are arming teachers who go through training, other urban schools are turned off by the…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – Tarrant County Public Health has announced the first human case of West Nile Virus in Tarrant County. The patient has been diagnosed with the mild form of the disease known as West Nile Fever. The more intense form is West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease. The patient is in Southeast Tarrant County. Other…… MORE
(CNN) – Demi Lovato has been hospitalized for an apparent drug overdose Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed to CNN that they received a call at 11:22 am for a medical emergency and transported a 25 year old woman to a local hospital. Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Jeff Lee said the emergency…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Rangers are investigating a shooting on the 9800 block of Adleta Blvd involving two Texas Department of Public Safety Special Agent Officers. Lonny Haschel with Texas Department of Public Safety said the officers were working on a case in their car when a male suspect in a white SUV pulled…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Two Uber passengers were hurt in what is believed to be a random shooting at Loop 12 Walton Walker and Northwest Highway in northeast Dallas. The man and woman told Dallas Police they ran inside the nearby Exxon gas station when they realized they were being followed and shot at. The cashier,…… MORE
COLLIN COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – District judges in Collin County could be facing what is called a “judicial emergency” because of the area’s booming population. At a Commissioner’s Court meeting, a district judge presented data showing that judges could be facing a crisis by 2020. “By the time the 2019 legislature rolls around we will be…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A server at Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa has admitted faking a note written on a customer’s check. The server, Khalil Cavil posted the note reading “We don’t tip terrorists” on Facebook saying, “This racism and this hatred still exists.” The post went viral and the restaurant banned the customer blamed…… MORE
Sobering photos of Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Jamie Givens smiling with young children thrilled to sit on his motorcycle and pose with him at last year’s State Fair of Texas. On Saturday he was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver while blocking a road for a funeral escort. pic.twitter.com/qfkTMXhpwk — J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11)…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Even seniors are getting in on the latest viral video challenge. A Facebook user posted this video of a fun-loving grandma dancing to Drake’s ‘In My Feelings’ song. The dance craze has swept the with thousands of social media users (celebrities included!) sharing videos doing the same exact same moves to…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – An Arlington man will spend three-and-a-half years in jail in connection with a fraudulent home remodeling operation. Police say 45-year old Ernest Thibodeaux – who also went by the name of Kris Malachi — would stop work after getting paid. Thibodeaux also gave customers low-ball estimates, then did shoddy work, or…… MORE
