DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The nationwide college admissions scandal involving alleged bribery at some of the country’s most elite schools has inspired top private universities in North Texas to investigate their own admissions practices. According to the Dallas Morning News, Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University are conducting internal reviews though neither school has…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Southwest Airlines and several others experienced a technological problem that caused flights nationwide to be grounded temporarily. According to Southwest, the ground stop lasted about 40 minutes due to an outage with a vendor that services multiple carriers with data used in flight planning. “Scattered flight delays are anticipated,” Southwest said…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Former Dallas Cowboy great Michael Irvin says he has not been diagnosed with throat cancer. The announcement comes after posting to Instagram last week saying he feared he had the disease after losing his voice after a Cowboys-Saints game in November, then struggling to fully get it back for several months.…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — According to Fort Worth city records, thousands of drivers are refusing to pay tickets that come from the hotly debated red light cameras. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports more than half of the nearly 225,000 tickets issued by the cameras last year were sent to collection agencies. For a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barbara Bush didn’t bite her tongue in when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn’t like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied for generations into his likeness, dates as least…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – It’s been nearly 20 years since a tornado lumbered through downtown Fort Worth and experts say the deadly storm left behind more than just destruction. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that experts say the twister in 2000, which caused an estimated $400 million in damage, triggered a valuable opportunity for…… MORE
BASTROP, Texas (AP) – Officials say three sisters from Huntsville and a friend have died in a two-vehicle accident in Central Texas as they traveled to watch a drill team competition in San Antonio. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the wreck happened Friday night on westbound Texas 21 near Bastrop. A pickup truck…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Four Houston men face up to life in prison for their roles in the 2016 slaying of an armored car guard during an ATM robbery. Jurors on Friday convicted the defendants of attempted interference with commerce by robbery and aiding and abetting discharge of a firearm during a violent crime. Two were…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – True to form, Democrat Beto O’Rourke started the day with a rally in his hometown of El Paso. According to a press release, O’ Rourke has a series of rallies scheduled across the state, including a stop at Texas Southern University in Houston, a historically black university, late this afternoon around…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has blamed the various claims he’s made over the years, including his repeated insistence that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre in Connecticut was a hoax, on what he now describes as “psychosis.” Jones offered that as an explanation for his conspiracy thinking during a deposition taken…… MORE
