BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – An assistant professor at Louisiana State University’s library school has received a $391,000 grant to find the best ways to preserve the digital archives of veterans and active-duty service members. Edward Benoit (BEN-wah) III already has studied how today’s military members and veterans are documenting their service, since most no…… MORE
ATLANTA (AP) – Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are marking their 73rd wedding anniversary, approaching George and Barbara Bush as the longest-married presidential couple in U.S. history. The Carters married July 7, 1946, in a Methodist church in their hometown of Plains, Georgia, when he was 21 and she was 18. The…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Officials are set to unveil a sculpture honoring five police officers killed in a sniper attack in downtown Dallas three years ago. Sunday marks three years since Micah Johnson opened fire on a peaceful protest. The Army veteran killed four Dallas police officers and one transit officer. Authorities killed Johnson using a…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A young boy was run down and killed by a hit and run driver Saturday afternoon in south Dallas. 12 year old Ricky Tave was one of a group of boys collecting donations for their youth baseball team at Ledbetter Drive and Vista Wood Boulevard. He stepped into the street, and was…… MORE
FORT WORTH – It’s been a few weeks delayed with constant cold and cool fronts moving into North Texas, bringing violent winds and torrential rainfall, but the terrible Texas heat is finally with us. National Weather Service meteorologist Patricia Sanchez says though we’ve been feeling on and off heat index values in excess of 100F…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Researchers with the Plain View Project identified nearly 200 Dallas Police Officers for allegedly posting hundreds of bigoted or violent posts on social media. The project research lead to a preliminary Internal Affairs investigation. According to a DPD blog, the PVP identified 170 former and current officers who they deemed to have…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Garland Police & Fire, responded to a gas leak just after 5:30 Saturday morning, on North Garland Road. Officials report hearing the sound of gas coming from a regulator station, in front of one of the businesses, when they arrived. Police believed that several test points were intentionally damaged. Officers later…… MORE
PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) – Police and firefighters are investigation an explosion at a Florida shopping plaza that injured multiple people. The explosion happened Saturday morning at a shopping center in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County. The blast sent large pieces of debris about 100 yards (about 91 meters) across the street. The…… MORE
Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – The Mesquite Police Department seeks the public’s assistance in identifying two armed robbery suspects. On 07/03/2019 at approximately 6:24 p.m., Officers were dispatched to a business located in the 1100 block of North Town East Blvd in reference to a robbery in progress. The two pictured male subjects entered the store and…… MORE
Lufkin (WBAP/KLIF) – A video that went viral on social media within the last week showed a person in what turned out to be a Lufkin Walmart opening a carton of Blue Bell ice cream, licking it, then putting it back in the store freezer. Lufkin Police say she turned out to be a teenaged…… MORE
