AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Three zookeepers have been fired from the Austin Zoo following a newspaper’s investigation into animal mistreatment that quoted one of the workers detailing how a sick monkey was kept alive that zookeepers believed needed to be euthanized. Zoo board members say all decisions were made based on violations of professional conduct.…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2015 and a member of the law school faculty for more than 40 years, has died. He was 72. The university said Powers died Sunday in Austin from complications from a fall several months earlier and oculopharyngeal muscular…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Dallas police say a motorist fled on foot after fatally striking three men trying to change a flat tire along a freeway. Police say the three men who were killed were standing outside the disabled sport utility vehicle when they were struck at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Police say pickup also hit…… MORE
Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – The National Weather Service confirms an EF-0 tornado spawned by Saturday morning’s series of fast moving thunderstorms damaged a Mesquite neighborhood. The twister came down along Allen Drive near the intersection of Interstate 635 and Bruton Road. It damaged several homes and a church, and hurled debris through the Chamberlain neighborhood until…… MORE
Anna (WBAP/KLIF) – Anna Police arrested a murder suspect Saturday night. 18 year old Christopher Sterkes has been charged with the death of 15 year old Alejandro Comacho who was shot to death Friday afternoon in Anna during what Anna police say was a drug deal gone bad. Sterkes is now in the Collin County…… MORE
MCKINNEY – WBAP/KLIF – McKinney Police are seeking information leading to the arrest of an unidentified gunman who shot into a crowd of nearly 30 people Friday night, striking and killing a 54 year old man. Police say just after 7 pm March 8th, dispatchers began receiving several 9-1-1 calls reporting a shooting into a…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Police have released recordings of several 911 calls that show the chaos and panic that gripped the capital city of Texas a year ago during a series of deadly package bombings. In one call March 12, Sandra Jones says “there is blood everywhere” after her grandson, 17-year-old Draylen Mason, and his…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A racial profiling report released by Austin police shows that black and Hispanic drivers pulled over in traffic stops were more than twice as likely to be searched than their white counterparts. The report, reflecting data for 2018, shows officers searched 6 percent of white drivers but 17 percent of black…… MORE
Fort Worth (AP) – Dan Jenkins, the sports writing great and best-selling author known for his humor, has died. He was 89. TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati confirmed Jenkins died Thursday in his hometown of Fort Worth. Jenkins started his writing career at The Fort Worth Press, and rose to stardom at Sports Illustrated. He…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) FORT WORTH, Texas — More than 30 people, including 9 firefighters, were treated after a hazmat incident at a Fort Worth business on Friday afternoon. According to the Fire Department, the firefighters were taken to a hospital for further treatment. The remaining 23 civilians went through a “decontamination process” at the scene, fire officials…… MORE
