DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Amazon is planning to add 30,000 people to its workforce and will stop in North Texas to find potential candidates. The online retail giant is hosting job “Annual Career Day” job fairs in six cities nationwide, including Dallas, next week. Amazon is hiring full-time and part-time positions that range from $15/hr warehouse…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — The American Airlines mechanic who was charged last week with sabotaging a navigation system to earn overtime pay had been fired from his job at a previous airline. Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani admitted to the sabotage amid the Fort Worth-based airlines’ labor dispute with its mechanics. He has worked with…… MORE
DUNCANVILLE (WBAP/KLIF News) — A Duncanville boy scout troop is trying to figure out who stole one of their trailers. The thief reportedly broke a gate lock and targeted a trailer that was full of equipment — the only one among many others to have equipment inside. “We teach them to be trustworthy and loyal…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says a deal is “imminent” with Dak Prescott after the star quarterback tied a career high with four touchdown passes in a 35-17 win over the New York Giants. Prescott’s big day included 405 yards passing and helped lighten the load for running back Ezekiel Elliott.…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — It’s not the usual catch of the day. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that a man who was fishing on Saturday at a North Texas lake reeled in something unusual: a semi-automatic rifle. Police say the man had been fishing with relatives at Lake Arlington, about 13 miles west of Fort Worth,…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – One of the gun-rights lobby’s staunchest defenders in Texas is bucking the National Rifle Association on background checks after a West Texas shooting rampage killed seven people. The NRA pushed back Friday in a rare moment of the nation’s most powerful gun-rights group slapping down a key Republican ally. It came after…… MORE
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) – The family of a 7-year-old Central Texas girl has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging her former school district kept losing her by putting her on a bus when she should have stayed on campus for an after-school program. KXAN-TV in Austin reports the girl’s mother, Candy Mendoza, alleges…… MORE
TAOS, N.M. (AP) – Authorities say country singer Kylie Rae Harris caused a three-vehicle crash in northern New Mexico that left her and a 16-year-old girl dead. Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe told the Taos News that investigators believe Harris caused Wednesday’s crash and that speed appeared to be a contributing factor when she clipped…… MORE
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
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) – Several criminal cases investigated by a state trooper in North Texas have been jeopardized after the trooper resigned amid charges he fabricated or tampered with evidence. Forty-five-year-old Chad Harden was jailed Thursday in Wichita Falls on charges that also include possession of a controlled drug. He was later released. The…… MORE
