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President George H.W Bush’s Service Dog To Help Wounded Soldiers

President George H.W Bush’s Service Dog To Help Wounded Soldiers

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The service dog who helped President George H.W Bush the last several months now has a new gig. Sully the yellow Labrador has been by the former President’s side since June, after his wife Barbara Bush passed away in April. The spokesperson for the nation’s 41st President posted a photo to…MORE

Zeke Fined By NFL For Salvation Army Celebration

Zeke Fined By NFL For Salvation Army Celebration

  (WBAP/KLIF)  Dallas Cowboys Running Back Ezekiel Elliott will have to pay a $13,369 fine after dropping money and Quarterback Dak Prescott into the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle last week.  The NFL levied the fine against Elliott for unsportsmanlike conduct.  During the Thanksgiving Day game at AT&T stadium Elliott scored the first touchdown of the…MORE

Bush was political patriarch to enduring American dynasty

Bush was political patriarch to enduring American dynasty

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Kennedys had their New England coastal hideaway in Hyannis Port, a Camelot-like mystique and a political godfather in Joseph P. Kennedy. For the country’s other political dynasty — the Bushes — it was a summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and the West Texas oil patch that created a mix of…MORE

Rehabilitation Continues for a Large Animal Seizure – Van Zandt County

Rehabilitation Continues for a Large Animal Seizure – Van Zandt County

CANTON – (WBAP/KLIF) – The SPCA is trying to rehabilitate more than 90 animals seized in what appears to be a case of severe neglect and or abuse in Van  Zandt County near Canton. SPCA spokeswoman Maura Davies says the SPCA seized 60 pigs, 9 dogs, 8 horses, 5 donkeys, 3 goats, 3 chickens, 1…MORE

Serious; Minor Injuries in a North Texas School Bus Crash.

Serious; Minor Injuries in a North Texas School Bus Crash.

WEATHERFORD – (WBAP/KLIF) – One adult has been critically injured; five students of Bridgeport High School’s girls’ basketball team slightly injured, in the head on crash between that bus and a car on Farm Market Road 51 near Weatherford.  Witnesses report the bus ended up on it’s side after the car smashed into it.   The…MORE

Police training at Fort Worth Convention Center

Police training at Fort Worth Convention Center

The Fort Worth Police are conducting training exercises today (Sunday) around the Fort Worth Convention Center. As part of that training they will be firing blanks, and they want everyone to know if they hear gunfire around the Convention Center it’s not an emergency. It’s the police working out how they will deal with an…MORE

Timeline:  41st United States President George H.W. Bush Will Come Home to Texas

Timeline: 41st United States President George H.W. Bush Will Come Home to Texas

UPDATED December 2, 4:28 PM (AP) – Following his death Friday, former President George H.W. Bush will lie in state in the Capital Rotunda Monday through Tuesday, receive a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral Wednesday, and be buried in the family plot at his Presidential Library at Texas A and M University Thursday. The…MORE

Elevated Fire Dangers in North Texas

Elevated Fire Dangers in North Texas

FORT WORTH – WBAP/KLIF – The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued an alert to North Texas of elevated fire dangers.   The service says the greatest dangers for sparking brush fires is generally along and west of the line drawn by Interstate 35.   Meterologist Bianca Villanueva says record rainfall during the months of…MORE

A Mother Sentenced To Decades in Prison Over the Death of Her Two Year Old Son

A Mother Sentenced To Decades in Prison Over the Death of Her Two Year Old Son

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A 24-year-old Central Texas woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for her role in the 2014 death of her 2-year-old son. State District Judge David Wahlberg sentenced Meagan Work on Friday and told his Austin courtroom that he can’t be certain how her son died, but that her…MORE

A Judge Decides Lawsuits Filed By Bikers in Waco Shooting Can Move Forward

A Judge Decides Lawsuits Filed By Bikers in Waco Shooting Can Move Forward

WACO, Texas (AP) – A federal judge in Texas has ruled that civil rights lawsuits filed by more than 100 bikers arrested in the aftermath of a shooting that left nine dead can proceed. U.S. District Judge Alan Albright on Friday lifted a stay and allowed the lawsuits stemming from the 2015 shooting at a…MORE