ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- U.S. Military officials visit North Texas, looking to replace its helicopter fleet across all branches. Fort Worth-based Bell Aerospace company demonstrated it’s new V-280 Valor to replace the outdated Black Hawk Helicopter. The V-280 Valor is part helicopter, part airplane. The modern design of tilt rotors allows for flying further, longer and faster. U.S.…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Two U.S. officials say it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. President Donald Trump is suggesting he believes Iran was responsible. He is dismissing Iranian claims that it was a mechanical issue that brought down the…… MORE
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) – A Wichita Falls man is accused of choking and headbutting his girlfriend because she complained about the smell of his flatulence has been jailed on an assault charge. Officers responded to a home Sunday afternoon following a report that Christopher Ragsdale had assaulted his girlfriend. According to an affidavit, the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – An accused serial killer is back in Dallas more than 20 years after his first alleged murder. According to the FBI, 42-year-old Jose Sifuentes was wanted for capital murder in Dallas County. He was returned to the United States following his extradition from Mexico this week. The U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – In the wake of recent events in the Middle East and Governor Greg Abbott’s warning about Texas seeing possibly thousands of cyberattacks on state agencies from Iran, local governments in North Texas are closely monitoring and sharing intelligence information with local, state and federal partners to ensure the safety and security of the…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook has decided not to limit how political ads can be targeted to specific groups of people, as its main digital-ad rival Google did in November to fight misinformation. Neither will it ban political ads outright, as Twitter did last October. And it still won’t fact check them, as it’s faced pressure to do. Instead,…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – For Tommy Fisher, a federal court hearing set for Thursday next to the U.S.-Mexico border could result in his company getting a chance to prove it can build President Donald Trump’s signature border wall faster and better than the government. For environmentalists and some landowners in South Texas, the hearing could clear…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A reported psychiatric patient who had gone to the Veteran’s Hospital in Dallas for treatment last night wound up dead at the hands of the VA hospital police. Dallas Police say the victim entered the hospital holding a knife and was shot when hospital police tried to disarm him. Around 10:22 p.m.,…… MORE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Forecasters say severe storms including tornadoes are possible from eastern Texas across the Deep South later this week. The Storm Prediction Center says more than 9 million people live in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana where there’s an enhanced risk of severe weather on Friday. Storms will move eastward…… MORE
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
