Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News
Business Leaders Call on President Trump to Protect DACA
(CNN Money) — The biggest names in business are urging President Trump and Congress to continue a program that protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. The CEO...
Sep 04, 2017
Hurricane Irma Barrels Toward the U.S. Mainland
Updated at 5:00pm: MIAMI (AP) – Hurricane Irma has strengthened into a Category 4 storm as it approaches the northeast Caribbean. The storm’s center is 490 miles (790 kilometers) east of t...
Sep 04, 2017
Experts Say Thousands of Vehicles Damaged By Tropical Storm Harvey Flooding
NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – In the coming weeks and months, insurance companies will declare lots of vehicles damaged by flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey as total losses. However, those ca...
Sep 04, 2017
Texas Provides Food Benefits for Victims of Hurricane Harvey
(WBAP/KLIF) – The State of Texas is providing a surge of food benefits to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients in the 58 counties included in the State Disaster Declaration follo...
Sep 04, 2017
Thousands of Hurricane Evacuees Occupy Two Dallas Shelters
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The City of Dallas is housing just under 3,000 Hurricane Harvey evacuees. Late Monday morning, the city said that its four shelters had been consolidated to two. More than 2...
Sep 04, 2017
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley: Kim Jong Un ‘Begging for War’
(CNN) — US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was “begging for war” as she urged the UN Security Council to adopt the stron...
Sep 04, 2017
Mayor Sylvester Turner says Houston is open for business
HOUSTON (AP) – Houston’s mayor insists that America’s fourth-largest city is “open for business,” but with areas under water, people not yet in their homes, and billions ...
Sep 04, 2017
North Texas Nonprofit Sends Supplies, Volunteers to South Texas to Help Rebuild
Courtesy: Team Rubicon GRAND PRAIRIE (WBAP/KLIF News) — The North Texas nonprofit Team Rubicon has filled a handful of vans with supplies and volunteers and sent them down south to help South Te...
Sep 04, 2017
More Than a Dozen Toxic Waste Sites Have Been Flooded
(WBAP/KLIF) – The Environmental Protection Agency reports at least 13 toxic waste sites were flooded or damaged by Hurricane Harvey. The impact of the flooding is unknown because no one has yet ...
Sep 03, 2017
9 year old boy killed while playing with a gun
Haltom City (WBAP/KLIF) – A 9 year old Haltom City boy playing with a pistol accidentally shot himself Saturday. Investigators say he found the loaded handgun in his parents’ bedroom, and ...
Sep 03, 2017
