FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Read Fort Worth is competing in a national competition to improve literacy at high need elementary schools. The Community Thrives (USA TODAY) fundraiser is to raise $100,000 or more to implement elementary literacy strategies and introduce STEM programs and four Fort Worth ISD elementary campus libraries (Sunrise, Moss, and Westen Hills Primary and Elementary) .…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – A new poll puts former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke in the top three, when it comes to Democratic presidential contenders. The new national poll done by Quinnipiac University has former Vice President, Joe Biden, leading the pack with 29 percent support among democrats. Senator Bernie Sanders is second with 19 percent, followed by…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police filed additional charges Thursday against a man seen on camera repeatedly punching a woman outside a Deep Ellum bar last week. Austin Shuffield is now also charged with Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon. The Dallas Police Department has also sent a an Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon charge, which is…… MORE
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF News) — The owner of the Irving animal hospital where a woman was mauled to death by her own dogs is talking about what happened. Dr. James Kang says Johana Villafane’s dogs were so aggressive that his staff was unable to walk them. As a result, she was told she would either have…… MORE
Irving (WBAP/KLIF)- A last minute drive is underway to prevent Thursday night’s scheduled execution of the next-to-last member of the so-called “Texas 7.” Now 57 year old Patrick Murphy was one of a gang of escaped convicts who murdered Irving Police officer Aubrey Hawkins during a Christmas Eve robbery 18 years ago. Murphy’s attorneys say…… MORE
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it will temporarily reassign several hundred border inspectors as beleaguered forces already stationed along the U.S.-Mexico border struggle to keep pace with the growing number of migrant families who are showing up at the border in poor health and turning themselves in to agents to…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth Police are looking for three thieves who broke into a parked car last week, stole some credit cards, then went on a shopping spree. They used the stolen cards to buy a number of items at several Walmarts, a Home Depot, at least one Racetrac, and a Whataburger. Anyone…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth ISD launches a Safe Routes to School program. Steve Cooke Fort Worth’s Director of Transportation says they received $10 million in funding from The North Central Texas Council of Governments and the City to make routes safer from a quarter mile away from seven elementary schools. “Make sure there’s a sidewalk…… MORE
CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF) – The Carrollton Police Department is asking for the public’s help investigating the death of an infant. According to Police, on Monday, March 11, a caretaker at the Perry Cemetery emptied what he knew to be an out of place flowerpot and discovered the body of a deceased infant beneath the pot’s soil. The medical…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- Arlington Life Shelter is raising money for it’s $5.2 million Hearts to Homes Campaign to build a new shelter. Campaign manager Jim Reeder says they’ve out grown the old shelter, having to turn down and separate families. The new shelter will be next to the old one on the corner of W Division…… MORE
