Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The real test of the brand new TEXRail system connecting downtown Fort Worth to DFW Airport began Friday morning. The system opened in early January, and was immediately popular: 100,000 riders in the first month. However that first month offered free rides. As of Friday morning passengers have to pay. An…… MORE
Plano (WBAP/KLIF) – A 37 year old Plano man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl. Roli Lopez-Sanchez will not be eligible for parole or good-behavior credit. The girl who is now 12 years old gave birth last summer, and DNA tests confirm Lopez-Sanchez is the baby’s…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Yet another candidate has tossed his hat into the ring to run for Mayor of Dallas. 71 year old Steve Smith is the founder and C.E.O. of a multi billion dollar asset management firm. He says he’s running primarily to invigorate the Great Trinity Forest and other nature preserves along the Trinity…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Rangers have decided to retire third baseman Adrian Beltre’s number. The team wrapped up its winter banquet Friday by announcing Beltre’s number 29 will be retired this coming June. The exact date has not yet been set. Beltre retired from baseball in November after 21 years in the major leagues;…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – A 30 year old Arlington man is going to prison for running a roofing scam. Patrick Jenkins has been sentenced to eight years for cheating more than 40 residents of Arlington, Mansfield, and North Richland Hills. He admitted he used his company, SOS Roofing and Construction, to scam victims who paid him…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the arrest of former Donald Trump campaign adviser Roget Stone in the special counsel’s Russia probe has nothing to do with the president. Sanders’ comments came hours after Stone was arrested Friday during a pre-dawn raid at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home. Stone was…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Southwest Airlines says it will drop its service to Mexico City by the end of March. It says it is doing so to reallocate its resources to better opportunities. The airline says it is gearing up to expand flights to Hawaii. Final government approval for those flights has been delayed by the…… MORE
Denton (WBAP/KLIF) – The University of North Texas Police are defending themselves against allegations of misconduct that grew out of a video that’s gone viral on social media. That video shows a man shaking in a police car with an officer leaning over him. He can be heard complaining that police were choking him. UNT…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – The Johnson Space Center in Houston is now requiring NASA employees who have been working without pay during the government shutdown to “volunteer” to clean the bathrooms, and take out the garbage. The Space Center reportedly now has minimal or no custodial services, so it’s demanding its employees perform janitorial work in…… MORE
Uvalde (WBAP/KLIF) – A 12 year old boy in the town of Uvalde has been arrested for the shooting death of a professional boxer. 24 year old John VanMeter was gunned down on his front porch Wednesday night when he went to see who was trying to open his front door. Witness descriptions lead police…… MORE
