Category Archives: KLIF News & Information In The Morning

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

Funeral today for the first of the White Settlement church shooting victims

Funeral today for the first of the White Settlement church shooting victims

White Settlement (WBAP/KLIF) – Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM for Richard White, one of the two men killed Sunday morning when a man with a shotgun opened fire inside the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement. He was a member of the church’s volunteer security team, and tried to draw…MORE

A Fort Worth judge rules today on the fate of an 11 month old baby.

A Fort Worth judge rules today on the fate of an 11 month old baby.

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

SMU warns students there may be a rapist in the area

SMU warns students there may be a rapist in the area

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

Obamacare sign-ups increased in Texas this year

Obamacare sign-ups increased in Texas this year

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

Influenza has killed another Dallas County resident

Influenza has killed another Dallas County resident

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