Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Today’s the day Judge Sandee Warion has said she will rule on whether Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth can remove 11 month old Tinslee Lewis from life support despite her family’s protests. Tinslee was born prematurely. She has a rare, severe heart defect, and has undergone three open heart…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Southern Methodist University is warning students there has been a sexual assault near the campus. An unidentified woman was attacked early Wednesday morning while walking on Mockingbird Lane toward Hillcrest Road. SMU says she is not a student, and not affiliated with the school, but it felt the wisest course of action…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The federal government reports more Texans signed up for Obamacare health insurance coverage during this year’s open enrollment period than enrolled last year: 30,000 more, for a total of 1.12 million. Nationally, enrollment was down 1.7%. The federal report notes the signup increase in Texas came even though the state attorney general…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas County Health Department confirms a fourth person has died of the flu. The latest victim has been identified only as a 34 year old Dallas County resident. The county does not release the names of those who die of influenza, but it is describing the overall situation as “an early…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has ordered Justice of the Peace courts throughout the county to clear their backlogs of old, un-pursuable cases. The J.P. courts are now in the process of wiping out hundreds of thousands of cases of unpaid traffic tickets, and payment for hot checks. Some of those…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize the private land it needs to build a border wall in south Texas. The Justice Department has filed three lawsuits so far this month against landowners in the Rio Grande Valley, targeting border towns and farms at Texas’ southernmost point. Many more…… MORE
Kansas City (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal jury in Kansas City has convicted a Virginia man of swindling women in Texas and elsewhere across the country out of nearly $3 million. Henry Asomani, a naturalized American citizen from Ghana cheated them by persuading women who had posted ads on online dating sites, or through their Facebook…… MORE
Grand Prairie (WBAP/KLIF) – The latest victim was an 81 year old Grand Prairie resident whose death was confirmed Friday. The first fatality was a 36 year old Dallas resident who died of the illness earlier this month. The County’s Health Director says “this is the earliest we have had this much flu activity in…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A white supremacist gang member has been executed for strangling a West Texas woman over fears she would alert police about his drug operation. Justen Hall received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 38-year-old Hall was condemned for the 2002 killing of 29-year-old Melanie Billhartz…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – On Election Day Tuesday, Texas voters had many constitutional amendment propositions on the ballot. Proposition 4 was top of mind for many; the issue amending the constitution to making it harder for lawmakers to levy an income tax passed overwhelmingly. Governor Abbott issued a statement after passage praising the vote: “Today’s…… MORE
