Yearly Archives: 2018

State Judge Mandates Quick Safety Fixes After Frightening Apartment Fire

State Judge Mandates Quick Safety Fixes After Frightening Apartment Fire

DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – A state judge orders the Dallas apartment complex where a dramatic fire last week caused many to jump for their lives…including from third story windows…to shore up safety features within a week. State judge Tonya Parker orders the Meadows Apartment Complex in Dallas to install smoke detectors, fix taped-over sprinklers, and…MORE

Police training at Fort Worth Convention Center

Police training at Fort Worth Convention Center

The Fort Worth Police are conducting training exercises today (Sunday) around the Fort Worth Convention Center. As part of that training they will be firing blanks, and they want everyone to know if they hear gunfire around the Convention Center it’s not an emergency. It’s the police working out how they will deal with an…MORE

Timeline:  41st United States President George H.W. Bush Will Come Home to Texas

Timeline: 41st United States President George H.W. Bush Will Come Home to Texas

UPDATED December 2, 4:28 PM (AP) – Following his death Friday, former President George H.W. Bush will lie in state in the Capital Rotunda Monday through Tuesday, receive a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral Wednesday, and be buried in the family plot at his Presidential Library at Texas A and M University Thursday. The…MORE

Elevated Fire Dangers in North Texas

Elevated Fire Dangers in North Texas

FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued an alert to North Texas of elevated fire dangers.   The service says the greatest dangers for sparking brush fires is generally along and west of the line drawn by Interstate 35.   Meterologist Bianca Villanueva says record rainfall during the months of…MORE

A Mother Sentenced To Decades in Prison Over the Death of Her Two Year Old Son

A Mother Sentenced To Decades in Prison Over the Death of Her Two Year Old Son

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A 24-year-old Central Texas woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for her role in the 2014 death of her 2-year-old son. State District Judge David Wahlberg sentenced Meagan Work on Friday and told his Austin courtroom that he can’t be certain how her son died, but that her…MORE

A Judge Decides Lawsuits Filed By Bikers in Waco Shooting Can Move Forward

A Judge Decides Lawsuits Filed By Bikers in Waco Shooting Can Move Forward

WACO, Texas (AP) – A federal judge in Texas has ruled that civil rights lawsuits filed by more than 100 bikers arrested in the aftermath of a shooting that left nine dead can proceed. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright on Friday lifted a stay and allowed the lawsuits stemming from the 2015 shooting at a…MORE

Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at Age 94

Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at Age 94

DALLAS (AP) – Former President George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. The nation’s 41st president served from 1989 to 1993, and eight years later watched his son George…MORE

Texas Sues San Antonio Police Under Sanctuary Cities Law

Texas Sues San Antonio Police Under Sanctuary Cities Law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the San Antonio police chief for what he says are violations of the state’s immigration law targeting “sanctuary cities.” Paxton accuses Chief William McManus in a lawsuit Friday of violating the law when he refused to turn over migrants in a human smuggling case…MORE