Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News
Parkland Hospital Updates Commissioners on Restructuring
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Parkland Hospital is making changes to the way it does things, in the wake of staff layoffs made after the federal government cut Medicaid funding by about $40 million....
Oct 18, 2016
Skeletal Remains Found in Fort Worth Have a Name
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Police in Fort Worth said the skeletal remains found last week are those of a missing man from Benbrook. The body of Chaney Hawthorne was found by kids in a wooded ...
Oct 18, 2016
Police Investigating After Loaded Gun Found in Child’s Backpack
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) – A first-grader in Richardson brought a loaded gun to school, and didn’t know it. In a letter sent to parents of students at Hamilton Park Elementary School Mo...
Oct 18, 2016
TEA Rejects Dallas ISD’s Plan to Fix Failing Schools
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The state has rejected the Dallas Independent School District’s plans to fix eight failing schools. The Texas Education Agency ordered DISD Trustees to attend gov...
Oct 18, 2016
Opponents of New Rangers Ballpark Question Its Promises
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Opponents of a new ballpark in Arlington said a poll by the Fort Worth Star Telegram and WFAA-TV shows that people are questioning whether the city should be offerin...
Oct 18, 2016
Frisco ISD Delays Opening 4 New Schools
FRISCO (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Frisco School Board unanimously voted to halt the opening of two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school next fall. “It’ll save the di...
Oct 18, 2016
Iraqi Refugee Pleads Guilty to Trying to Help Islamic State
HOUSTON (AP) – An Iraqi refugee who authorities say wanted to set off bombs at two Houston malls has pleaded guilty to trying to help the Islamic State group. Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan pleaded ...
Oct 18, 2016
Clinton Buying TV Air Time in Fiercely Conservative Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Democrat Hillary Clinton is buying television advertising time in fiercely red Texas, hoping to tighten the presidential race in America’s largest conservative state. ...
Oct 18, 2016
Dallas Wishes Union Station a Happy First Century
Mayor Mike Rawlings emcee’d the event, paying tribute to the building known as “the front door to Dallas”. “This beautiful train depot, which cost about $6.5 million, in...
Oct 17, 2016
Ft. Worth Zoo Plans Expansion
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Fort Worth Zoo hopes to raise $10 million to fully fund an expansion that will include four exhibits that recreate African landscapes for its animals. The zoo h...
Oct 17, 2016
