Volunteers are working to put up a three-quarter scale replica of Washington D.C.’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Lewisville Lake Park. The Wall That Heals exhibit will be open to the public 24 hours a day and will be accompanied by the Mobile Education Center. Lewisville is one of three Texas tour stops in 2019 for…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A former Texas A&M football player has been sentenced to life in prison for the hacking death of a Dallas jogger along White Rock Trail four years ago. Thomas Johnson was convicted this week of the murder of Dave Stevens. He was sentenced by a Dallas County jury Wednesday. Johnson’s defense tried…… MORE
Update at 12:30pm: The National Weather Service says the damage caused near Eagle Mountain Lake was most likely just from thunderstorm winds and not a tornado. Meanwhile, meteorologists have confirmed a low-end EF-1 tornado in the Justin area with 86-90 MPH winds. It is believed the path of that tornado was about a mile long…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (WBAP/KLIF News) – A North Texas man has been convicted in the 2016 murder of an Arlington mother who was selling jewelry to raise money to buy Christmas presents for her family. Mario Hernan Lopez Gamez was convicted Monday of capital murder and received an automatic life sentence. Prosecutors didn’t seek the death…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – There is a North Texas connection to the tragic shooting at the University of North Carolina/Charlotte. 22-year old Trystan Andrew Terrell had moved to Charlotte from Arlington to live with his dad two years ago after the death of his mother; that, according to Terrell’s grandfather, Paul Rold, an Arlington resident. The…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas based Southwest Airlines is no longer top dog when it comes to customer satisfaction. According to a survey by the American Customer Satisafaction Index, Southwest is now tied for second place with Jet Blue. Alaska Airlines comes in at number one. The report says, “Recent deadly crashes of the Boeing 737 Max…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas prison officials on Tuesday abruptly halted the practice of sharing death row inmate’s final written statements after a lawmaker expressed outrage over the state relaying the last words of an avowed racist executed for the 1998 dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr. It marks the second recent…… MORE
DALLAS/FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Parts of North Texas experienced severe weather, tornado warnings and flash flood warnings in North Tarrant, Denton and Parker Counties. People were asked to take shelter and avoid driving as severe weather rolled in at about 4:00 PM Tuesday afternoon. There was damage reported at Eagle Mountain Lake close to Harbor One Marina. A…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Fort Worth SWAT Department introduces a new vehicle to keep officers and the community safe. It’s called the Rook and it’s similar to a skid steer loader for construction. Lieutenant Todd Plowman said the Rook is used when dealing with a hostage situation, a barricaded victim or even to remove debris after…… MORE
AUSTIN (AP) – Texas prison officials say the last written words of condemned inmates will no longer be shared publicly, marking another fresh change to execution day procedures in the nation’s busiest death chamber. The new policy Tuesday follows outrage by a state lawmaker who in 2011 also put a halt to Texas death row…… MORE
