Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News

U.S. Census: Texas Leads the Nation in Population Growth in 2018

U.S. Census: Texas Leads the Nation in Population Growth in 2018

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – U.S. Census figures show Texas added more people to its population than any other state during the past year. Despite the numbers, the Austin American-Statesman reports Texas’ growth rate has slowed down. Texas added 379,128 people from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, a growth of 1.3 percent. The state’s…MORE

Man Charged After Two Officers Burned in Crash

HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say a 23-year-old man has been charged with four felonies after he allegedly crashed into a patrol vehicle, injuring two Houston police officers. Cesar Collazo remained jailed Monday. He’s facing two counts of failure to stop and render aid and two counts of intoxication assault with serious bodily injury on a…MORE

Proposed Legislation Pays Tribute to Fallen North Texas Police Officer

Proposed Legislation Pays Tribute to Fallen North Texas Police Officer

RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF) – A portion of a North Texas Highway could soon be named after a local hero. A proposal to rename part of Central Expressway after the first Richardson Police Officer killed in the line of duty will be considered by lawmakers in the upcoming legislative session in Austin. Officer David Sherrard was shot to…MORE

Texans Being Gifted Low Gas Prices this Holiday Season

Texans Being Gifted Low Gas Prices this Holiday Season

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Americans are being gifted at the gas pump this Holiday season as low gas prices fuel record holiday travel.​ The average price for a gallon of regular-grade gasoline in the United Sates has dropped significantly in the past two weeks to $2.43. “This is really a boom for motorists at the expense of…MORE

Court Says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Doing Well, Working After Surgery

Court Says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Doing Well, Working After Surgery

WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery. Kathy Arberg, court spokeswoman, said that Ginsburg remained in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sunday. No information has been released on when Ginsburg might return home. Ginsburg underwent surgery Friday to remove…MORE

Dozens of immigrants dumped in El Paso

Dozens of immigrants dumped in El Paso

El Paso (WBAP/KLIF) – Reports in El Paso say dozens of would-be immigrants who have been held in federal custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were dropped off Sunday night at the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown El Paso. It is not clear who dropped them off. A number of the immigrants told El…MORE

Corsicana Police are working on a triple homicide

Corsicana Police are working on a triple homicide

Corsicana (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Corsicana, some 60 miles south of Dallas, are investigating a triple homicide. They got a call over the weekend from a woman who said her sister and her sister’s estranged husband were arguing, and he had a gun. Nancy Castillo told the 9-1-1 dispatcher she was trying at that moment…MORE

Cowboys Clinch NFC East

Cowboys Clinch NFC East

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – The Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title as Dak Prescott accounted for two touchdowns and Jaylon Smith returned a fumble 69 yards for a touchdown in a 27-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Smith’s long return came after a scrambling Jameis Winston lost the ball on a blind-side…MORE

An execution date has been set for a notorious Texas murderer

An execution date has been set for a notorious Texas murderer

Jasper (WBAP/KLIF) – An execution date has been set for the second of three white men convicted of a notorious murder twenty years ago. John William King will be put to death by lethal injection April 24. He and two others chained a mentally disabled black man to the back of a pickup truck in…MORE

The largest immigrant teen tent city in Texas appears to be closing

The largest immigrant teen tent city in Texas appears to be closing

Tornillo (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke paid a surprise visit to the immigrant teen tent city in Tornillo Sunday, and came out saying it appears to be shutting down. O’Rourke says the tent city’s administrators told him they are no longer accepting new children, and they have 300 ready to leave as soon as…MORE