Category Archives: KLIF News & Information In The Morning

Student charged with attack on high school staff member

Student charged with attack on high school staff member

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A student at Lake Highlands High School was arrested Friday for allegedly attacking a faculty member with a “tasing device.” The unidentified staff member was intervening in an altercation between students when he or she was attacked. The unidentified student faces felony charges and expulsion. Lake Highlands High School is part of…MORE

Crane wreckage removed from Dallas apartment complex

Crane wreckage removed from Dallas apartment complex

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The wreckage of a crane that fell on an Old East Dallas apartment complex June 9 has finally been removed from the building. The management of Elan City Lights apartments made the announcement Friday. The work was slowed by official investigations, and what the crane operator described as the need to prioritize…MORE

Old uptown Dallas office building imploded

Old uptown Dallas office building imploded

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Another vacant office building was turned into a pile of rubble Sunday morning in uptown Dallas. The old Republic Insurance building on Turtle Creek Boulevard near “The Mansion” was blown down by a series of powerful explosions. What is now a pile of rubble will be replaced by a 14 story complex…MORE

Funeral services, memorial set for T. Boone Pickens

Funeral services, memorial set for T. Boone Pickens

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) – A public memorial is planned at Oklahoma State University to honor the late T. Boone Pickens, who donated hundreds of millions of dollars to his alma mater during his lifetime. Pickens died Wednesday in Dallas at age 91. OSU says the university will honor Pickens on Sept. 25 at Gallagher-Iba Arena…MORE

A Dallas man has attacked a famous New York City statue

A Dallas man has attacked a famous New York City statue

New York City (WBAP/KLIF) – Wall Street’s famous charging bull statue has been vandalized by a man from Dallas. According to eyewitnesses 42 year old Tevon Varlack was muttering profanities when he repeatedly slammed some sort of heavy weapon or tool against the head of the three and a half ton bronze sculpture in Manhattan’s…MORE

Federal judge threatens to put heat on Texas prison officials

Federal judge threatens to put heat on Texas prison officials

Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal judge in Houston has threatened to have Texas prison officials experience the same hot temperatures prison inmates say they are still living with, even though the state settled a lawsuit over oppressive heat more than a year ago. Attorneys for the inmates say prison officials are not adhering to the…MORE

Piece of a plane falls into Southlake street

Piece of a plane falls into Southlake street

Southlake (WBAP/KLIF) – A piece of an engine cowling broke off a private plane while it was in flight over Southlake Friday afternoon. It crashed down on Continental Boulevard, near the Timarron Country Club during the afternoon rush hour. No one on the ground was hit. The plane managed to land safely at Fort Worth’s…MORE

Child Found in Apartment Swimming Pool has Died

Child Found in Apartment Swimming Pool has Died

Haltom City (WBAP/KLIF) – One of two young girls who were found, unresponsive in a Haltom City apartment swimming pool over the weekend has died. 7 year old Ivana Mbouna was found in the pool Saturday evening. She died Sunday. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner ruled she was the victim of accidental drowning. The 5…MORE

New laws have gone into effect in Texas

New laws have gone into effect in Texas

Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – A number of new laws went into effect in Texas, Sunday, September 1. Texans who legally own firearms will be able to carry them in public after an official declaration of a State of Natural Disaster. School districts will no longer be able to ban possession of guns stored in locked vehicles.…MORE

Eight more counties added to drought disaster declaration

Eight more counties added to drought disaster declaration

Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott has added eight counties to a disaster declaration because of ongoing drought in the state. Abbott released a proclamation Friday that added Brooks, Nueces, Jim Wells, and San Patricio counties in south Texas; Wilbarger and Wichita counties in northern Texas; and Briscoe and Castro counties in the Panhandle…MORE