FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth-based Lockheed Martin Aeronautics signed a $1.9 billion deal with the Pentagon to maintain the global F-35 Fighter Jet fleet in 2020. Scott Latham F-35 Sustainment Director said the contract allows them to be the primary equipment manufacturer to maintain and serve these jets around the world. “It’s important to Lockheed…… MORE
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran state TV says Tehran has launched “tens” of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq’s Ain Assad air base housing U.S. troops over America’s killing of a top Iranian general. State TV described it early Wednesday as Tehran’s revenge operation over the killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. U.S. forces could not…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas City Council will reconsider the fate of a well known park during its meeting Wednesday afternoon. Late last year private donors proposed renovating the baseball field at Reverchon Park into an event venue with more than 3,000 seats. But with a tie vote the City Council denied the project. Park…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott’s Domestic Terrorism Task Force is expanding its scope to look at all types of attacks on groups and individuals in the wake of recent events. Governor Abbott says they are not just focusing on matters affecting Texas currently. They are also looking at what is happening in other parts…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to have secured enough Republican votes to start President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial but postpone a decision on witnesses or documents Democrats want. The trial could start as soon as this week if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi releases the articles of impeachment. She is set to…… MORE
TRAVIS COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – New details are being revealed about the bizarre murder-for-baby plot against an Austin mother. According to a recently released arrest affidavit, 33-year-old Magen Fieramusca allegedly kidnapped Heidi Broussard and her infant daughter Margo Carey in an effort to pass the child off as her own. The two were last seen…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth police are asking for the public’s help in locating an alleged serial robber. Spokesman Michael Carter says 17-year old Michael Olivas is suspected multiple aggravated robberies between October and November 2019. In one case a victim’s credit cards were stolen at a Trader Joe’s on Hulen Street. Nearly $9,000…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a U.S.…… MORE
Washington (AP) – A potentially ground-breaking lawsuit is being filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., against the Irving based Boy Scouts of America. It seeks to establish Washington as a venue for men across the U.S. to sue the Scouts for allegedly failing to protect them from long-ago sexual abuse by scout leaders. The…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A woman awaiting a court decision in her battle against a Texas hospital’s plan to end life-sustaining treatment for her 11-month-old daughter spoke out Monday after revoking the medical center’s permission to talk about her child’s treatment. “This situation takes away my job as a mother and lets other people…… MORE
