NEW YORK (WBAP/KLIF News) – Iconic journalist and political commentator Coke Roberts has died at the age of 75. ABC announced her death from complications due to breast cancer Tuesday morning. Roberts was considered a pioneer for women in journalism for decades. She was a three-time Emmy award winner, a Broadcasting and Cable Hall of…… MORE
D-FW Could Be Considered for a New Global Sherwin-Williams HQ and R&D Center
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) _ There are rumblings that the Dallas-Fort Worth area could be in the running for a new global headquarters for Ohio-based paint giant Sherwin-Williams. The chosen location will also include a new research & development center for the Fortune 500 company. Dallas Innovates reports, the overall goal is to consolidate the company’s multiple…… MORE
[VIDEO] A Texas A&M Student from Frisco, Critically Injured by Impaired Teen Driver
Frisco (WBAP/KLIF) – Friends and family of a Texas A&M student from Frisco are offering prayers and support after she was severely injured after being hit by a drunk driver on campus Saturday. Dozens of people who know A&M sophomore Carolyn Beatty gathered outside her alma mater, Frisco Centennial High School last night for a…… MORE
Some Good Comes Out Of Dallas Crane Collapse
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) Hundreds of people who used to live in the Elan City Lights Apartments in Dallas are donating their left behind furniture to the nonprofit VolunteerNow. Instead of letting the left-behind pieces go to waste, previous residents are allowing VolunteerNow to accept good-condition sofas, lamps, entertainment centers and patio furniture to sell in its…… MORE
Tent Courtrooms Open to Process Migrants Waiting in Mexico
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Tent courtrooms opened Monday in two Texas border cities to help process thousands of migrants who are being forced by the Trump administration to wait in Mexico while their requests for asylum wind through clogged immigration courts. The court in Laredo opened with a judge who appeared by videoconference. Critics have…… MORE
Fort Worth, Dallas Mayors Share the Stage Discussing Public Safety and Working Together
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson share the stage for the 1st time at the North Texas Commission luncheon for a conversation on regionalism, their goals for working together and the challenges and opportunities the North Texas Region faces. Both spoke about their individual efforts for public safety and gun…… MORE
Amber Guyger Trial to Remain in Dallas County
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The murder trial for Amber Guyger will remain in Dallas County. The defense had asked the Judge to move the trial because of media coverage in the Dallas area. But prosecutors argued that the former Dallas Police Officer’s trial stay in dallas because news coverage wasn’t pervasive enough to influence the jury.…… MORE
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum to Open in City’s West End
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas’ West End officially becomes home to the ‘Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum’ this week. The museum opens to the public Wednesday in a 55,000 sq-foot building equipped with holographic technology. The museum tells the stories of holocaust victims and survivors. “When visitors come to Dallas this is going to be…… MORE
Report: Vapes Spiked with Illegal Drugs Show Dark Side of CBD Craze
(AP) – An Associated Press investigation shows a dark side to booming sales of the cannabis extract CBD. Some people are substituting cheap and dangerous street drugs for the real thing. As a result, vapes and other products marketed as helping a range of ailments instead have sent dozens of people to emergency rooms because they…… MORE
Central Texas 5th Grader Dies of Brain-Eating Amoeba After Swimming in Brazos River
Fort Worth, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A 10-year girl from Bosque County has died, 8-days after being infected by a brain-eating amoeba. The parents of Lily Mae Avant say the 5th grader came down with the illness shortly after swimming in the Brazos River last Sunday. Our media partner, WFAA-TV reports the young girl was being…… MORE
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