HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF) – Volunteers from Dallas-Fort Worth are hard at work in Southeast Texas following last week’s flooding. Close to 40 inches of rain fell in just days as Tropical Depression Imelda moves around Beaumont and surrounding areas. Many homes and businesses were flooded out. Now, the Texas Baptist Men are on the ground making…… MORE
LAREDO, Texas (AP) – The U.S. Border Patrol said agents at a Laredo checkpoint found 53 migrants who had entered the country illegally hiding in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer. The agency said the migrants were found Tuesday during a search of the truck at a checkpoint on I-35 just north of Laredo. The…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Police in Dallas say a transgender woman was seriously wounded after being shot multiple times and are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Investigators say a man driving a pickup pulled alongside the woman late Friday, yelled slurs about her gender identity and fired several times, striking her in the chest…… MORE
College Station, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas A&M student from Frisco who was critically injured by a suspected impaired driver died from her injuries Sunday. 19-year old Carly Beatty was walking home with two roommates early Sept. 14 when she was hit by a car near campus. Police say the 17-year old driver was drunk and…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – President Donald Trump joined a Texas welcome party for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s visiting the United States amid trade tensions between the allies. Deafening drums marked the entrance of President Trump and Prime Minster Modi as they clasped hands and walked across the stage in a packed Texas stadium Sunday…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Arlington Police are looking for a man in connection with a sexual assault over the weekend. According to police, a woman was approached from behind, on Brown Blvd., around 10:30a.m., Saturday. She was on a trail in the Crystal Canyon Natural Area Park, and the suspect allegedly had a gun. The…… MORE
FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – Tarrant County Medical Examiner says a ten year old girl died by drowning in a Fort Worth apartment complex pool Saturday night. Authorities identify the girl as Jacqueline Juarez. The girl was found in the pool of the Martha’s Vineyard Apartments in Fort Worth on South Calloway Street; near where…… MORE
FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – Two people were stabbed at a Quinceanera in Fort Worth early this morning at a hall at 5601 Lancaster Avenue. Fort Worth Police are reported as arriving to Lancaster Hall after midnight to find one person stabbed in the back and another person stabbed in the abdomen. Both stabbing victims…… MORE
Boston (WBAP/KLIF) – Several personal items that were once owned by 1930s Texas outlaw Clyde Barrow were sold Saturday at a Boston auction for nearly $186,000. RR Auctions reports the watch that Barrow was wearing when he and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in 1934 sold for $112,500. A sawed-off shotgun that the Barrow…… MORE
ARLINGTON – (WBAP/KLIF) – Arlington Police say a newborn baby boy discovered in a container next to a trash bin at an apartment complex is hospitalized in stable condition, but authorities say first responders used CPR to revive the baby when first being treated. The baby was found by a woman taking trash to the…… MORE
