(Kingsland, Texas – WBAP/KLIF) – The LLano River in West Central Texas that crested at nearly 40 feet last week is down to about 6 feet now. The Llano River washed out a bridge in Kingsland as raging floodwaters threatened homes beyond what was flooded in the region by pounding downpours last week. national Weather…… MORE
DFW International Airport – (WBAP/KLIF) – National Weather Service indicates North Texas has a chance of beating it’s all time rainfall record during the month of October, last set back in 1981. Through midnight, Saturday October 20, measurements at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport reached 12.3 inches of rain. In 1981, the all time record…… MORE
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) – An earthquake has shaken parts of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 4.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 8:04 a.m. Saturday about 9 miles (15 kilometers) north-northeast of Amarillo. The temblor was recorded at a depth of 3 miles (5 kilometers). There were no immediate reports…… MORE
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A San Antonio police detective who was fired last year for what authorities say was his mishandling of more than 130 sexual assault and other cases now is facing several charges that he tampered with evidence. An indictment filed Tuesday shows 46-year-old Kenneth Valdez is charged with eight counts of tampering…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A jury has convicted a North Texas woman of attempted murder for withholding food and nutrients from her young son in a case prosecutors say included subjecting the child to needless surgeries. The Tarrant County jury Friday also found 42-year-old Danita Tutt of Cleburne guilty of causing injury to a…… MORE
FORT WORTH – (WBAP/KLIF) – Nine year old Payton Summons has died of reported heart failure at Fort Worth’s Cook Children’s Medical Center. Center of a legal battle by her family to keep the girl on life support, battling with doctors who announced Payton had no chance of recovery, the family’s attorney announced Payton’s death,…… MORE
ANKARA Turkey (AP) – Saudi state-run media is reporting that prosecutors in the kingdom believe Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a quarrel. State media also quotes prosecutors as saying 18 Saudi nationals are being held on suspicion of being involved in the Washington Post columnist’s death. Saudi…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – In conjunction with National School Bus Safety Week, the Texas Department of Public Safety is urging Texans to comply with laws prohibiting drivers from passing stopped school buses. DPS Troopers across the state will be riding and/or following school buses October 22-26 to ensure that drivers are obeying school bus laws. “DPS…… MORE
TECUN UMAN Guatemala (AP) – The head of Mexico’s federal police says that they have achieved their first objective of preventing a violent breach of the border by some 3,000 migrants trying to enter from Guatemala. Manelich Castilla told Foro TV the migrants will enter in an orderly fashion. “It will be under the conditions…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A four-year long look back at NASA’s historic Apollo flights begins this weekend in Dallas. The Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas Love Field will host the Apollo 7 50th Anniversary Gala Saturday and honor the only living crew member of that flight. Museum CEO Cheryl Sutterfield-Jones says several Apollo-era and Space…… MORE
