DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Temperatures in North Texas are predicted to drop below freezing tonight, prompting hundreds of volunteers in Plano to work hard making sure the homeless have a warm place to stay. Corps officer Captain Richard New with the Salvation Army in Plano, described the overnight warming station as a joint initiative between…… MORE
Galveston (WBAP/KLIF) – A fast-food favorite in Texas is getting some artsy attention. A wood carved array of Dairy Queen items was on display this weekend at the Galveston Arts Center in an exhibit called “Thank You, Please Drive Through.” Galveston native Camp Bosworth, who now lives in Marfa, created the exhibit that includes his…… MORE
Southwest is suing its mechanics’ union over what it claims is an illegal work slowdown that is grounding planes and disrupting flights. It’s Southwest’s second lawsuit in three years against the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association and the result of raw feelings on both sides after more than six years of fruitless contract negotiations. The airline…… MORE
WACO, Texas (AP) – Former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman says he wants to try to enter the NFL after being acquitted of sexual assault. A defensive end, Oakman was Baylor’s career leader in sacks and was pursuing a professional career when he was arrested in April 2016, two weeks before the NFL draft, and…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth Police officer was injured early Saturday morning when her squad car was rammed from behind by a suspected drunk driver while she and other officers were investigating an earlier accident on the eastbound side of I-30 at Montgomery Street. The officer was inside her patrol car when it…… MORE
DENTON – WBAP/KLIF – A man believed to be about age 30, still not identified, has been struck by a commuter train in Denton Friday night. Police say the victim suffered a serious leg injury; he was trapped underneath the train but Fire/Rescue managed to perform a technical rescue that freed him. Investigation continues, but…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – Chaos erupted near Texas’ death chamber when the son of the inmate being executed pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his last words. Billie Wayne Coble was sentenced to death for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife’s parents and brother. The Vietnam War…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF)- The Dallas County District Attorney’s office is dropping charges against Sini Mathews, the adoptive mother of Sherin Mathews who was found dead in a Richardson Culvert in 2017. Mathews had been charged after prosecutors said she and her husband left their daughter, home alone and two weeks later her body was found in a…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying to give church folks a heads up about scammers. Paxton has issued a consumer alert regarding people pretending to be pastors or priests, who are texting church members and asking them to buy gift cards for a fake charitable cause. Scammers claim these gift cards are…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Former Dallas City Councilwoman Carolyn Davis pleaded guilty to accepting more than $40,000 in bribes. In a press conference Friday, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox said Davis actively sought out these bribes from real estate developer Ruel Hamilton, a principal with AmeriSouth Realty Group, for his…… MORE
