Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The damage reports are still coming in after damaging high-wind storms ripped through the metroplex Sunday. Most of the damage and subsequent power outages are reported in Dallas where some 250,000 customers are still in the dark. Jen Myers with Oncor says that power crews from Mississippi and Alabama are headed this…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Hundreds of people paid tribute to Grand Prairie Police Officer A.J.Castaneda during a candlelight vigil at Grand Prairie Police Headquarters Sunday night. The department’s Public Information Officer, Chelsea Kretz said “the department is hurting, our city is hurting, and our profession is hurting.” But Kretz, who considers herself a co-worker and…… MORE
Dallas/Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Severe thunderstorms packing up to 70 mph winds were active early this afternoon across the metroplex. Damage is widespread across Collin, Tarrant and Denton Counties and in Dallas, where winds blew a crane into an apartment building, killing one person and injuring several others. New @WFAA DFW weather: 1 dead as…… MORE
UPDATED 6/10/19 8:41AM Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Residents of the Elan City Lights Apartment complex near Deep Ellum in Dallas will be allowed inside the complex to get their belongings a day after a crane crashed into the building, killing one person and injuring five others. Toni Reeves with the property owner Greystar Rea Estate says…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas residents elected the city’s new Mayor Saturday night after months of debate and a runoff for the position. State Representative Eric Johnson defeated Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs with 55% of the vote. Johnson got off to an early start after early voting numbers showed him ahead by 12 percentage points…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE – WBAP/KLIF – A vigil will be held at the headquarters of the Grand Prairie Police Department at 8:30 pm. Sunday evening for an officer killed on the Bush Turnpike Friday morning. Address; 1525 Arkansas Lane, Grand Prairie. Officer A J Castenada died Friday morning on the Bush Turnpike near Dickey Road while…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Three men are under arrest and face capital murder charges in the death of a man found in the street dead of gunshot wounds, in the latest spate of gun violence and tragedy in Dallas. Dallas Police report the arrest and capital murder charges against 18 year old Jamie Israel Saenz…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Grand Prairie Police are investigating an auto-pedestrian accident that left one man dead. According to police the incident happened about 4:45 a.m., Saturday morning when two men tried to cross the main lanes of Highway 360 North. One of the men was hit by a gold Chevy Malibu on the North…… MORE
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas is credited with saving a migrant woman and her young son who were attacked and covered by thousands of bees. The agency said in a statement Friday that the agent was patrolling the Rio Grande in Brownsville, in southernmost Texas, when bees entered his…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A missing hiker from Fort Worth has been found alive in an Arkansas wilderness area. Joshua McClatchy disappeared June 1. He was found late Friday night in a remote, rocky part of the Caney Creek Wilderness Area near Mena, Arkansas. Rescuers brought him out of the rugged area, and took him…… MORE
