Category Archives: KLIF News & Information In The Morning

A Saturday night pick-up basketball game near downtown Dallas turned into a shooting.

A Saturday night pick-up basketball game near downtown Dallas turned into a shooting.

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Tempers flared while several young men were playing in an apartment complex near Canton Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard. One of the aggrieved parties stormed away, but came back a few minutes later with a friend. That “friend” produced an assault rifle, and started shooting. He hit the 19 year old victim…MORE

Byron Nelson Golf Tournament moving

Byron Nelson Golf Tournament moving

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The PGA says this is the last year the Byron Nelson Golf Tournament will be played at Trinity Forest Golf Club, south of downtown Dallas. The tournament moved there three years ago, and the PGA says it has been disappointed by attendance and revenues since then. It has decided May’s Byron Nelson…MORE

Retrial in Murder of Texas Tourist Postponed

Retrial in Murder of Texas Tourist Postponed

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – A Greek court has postponed the retrial of seven suspects on murder charges over the 2017 fatal beating of a Texan tourist on an island resort. It is to allow a lawyer newly hired by the victim’s family to familiarize himself with the case. The court on Wednesday postponed the case…MORE

Texas Girl Scouts go to “Cookie University”

Texas Girl Scouts go to “Cookie University”

Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Hundreds of Girl Scouts gathered in Fort Worth Saturday for what the organization says was a “cookie university.” Girl Scout cookies go on sale across north Texas in a few weeks, and the “university” was intended to teach the girls how to run a successful cookie business concentrating on dealing with…MORE

Firefighter injured fighting Fort Worth fire

Firefighter injured fighting Fort Worth fire

Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth firefighter was injured Saturday while fighting a fire at Wilson’s Bar-B-Q in east Fort Worth close to the I-30, East Loop 820 interchange. The 27 year old firefighter suffered first-degree burns to his hands and face. Investigators say the fire started accidentally when someone left a smoker door…MORE

Gunfire hits two in Arlington

Gunfire hits two in Arlington

Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Arlington Police are trying to figure out what happened Friday night in an apartment complex on Greystoke Drive, about two blocks from the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. They were called there to investigate a shooting. They found blood, but no victims. A short time later they learned that Arlington Memorial Hospital was…MORE

Dallas Stars ex-coach headed for rehab

Dallas Stars ex-coach headed for rehab

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Fired Dallas Stars head coach Jim Montgomery is checking himself into a rehab facility for alcohol abuse. In a written statement released Friday, Montgomery said losing his job with the Stars was a “wake-up call.” He also noted that his firing was the “appropriate call.” Montgomery was fired late last year for…MORE

Missing Texas man found alive in Grand Canyon

Missing Texas man found alive in Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon Village (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas man who disappeared 11 days ago in the Grand Canyon has been found alive. 58 year old Martin O’Conner of La Porte, southeast of Houston, was found Thursday on the New Hance Trail, one of the most difficult along the Grand Canyon’s south rim. O’Connor was flown out…MORE

Chicken Express manager reprimanded over hijab controversy

Chicken Express manager reprimanded over hijab controversy

Saginaw (WBAP/KLIF) – The Chicken Express fast food chain has reprimanded a Saginaw store manager, and ordered him to undergo diversity training. He told a muslim employee she was not allowed to wear a hijab while on the job, and sent her home when she refused to take it off. Chicken Express says the manager…MORE

Victim’s family appeals court ruling

Victim’s family appeals court ruling

New Orleans (WBAP/KLIF) – Botham Jean’s family is appealing last week’s decision to remove the city of Dallas from their civil rights lawsuit. Jean was shot and killed inside his apartment by an off duty Dallas Police officer who says she thought his apartment was hers, and Jean was an intruder. Lawyers representing Jean’s family…MORE