DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Celebrating National First Responders Day, Perot Museum of Nature and Science leaders announced Tuesday that Margot and Ross Perot have donated $5 million to expand access to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) experiences for North Texans, including first responders, active duty and veteran members of the military, and undeserved families and schoolchildren. The grant also provides financial…… MORE
NORRISTOWN, Pa (AP) – Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced Cosby on Tuesday, five months after his conviction in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – An Arlington private school has suspended an administrator who posted a profane online message criticizing the attorney who represents porn actress Stormy Daniels. The Oakridge School said in a statement Monday that it indefinitely suspended Butch Groves for conduct deemed “unacceptable.” Groves in a tweet Sunday made derogatory comments about lawyer…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Today is National Voter Registration Day, national holiday first observed in 2012, and held on the fourth Tuesday of September. In order to vote in the November 6th Midterm elections,the last day to register to vote is October 9th. Our #NationalVoterRegistrationDay Goal is 300,000, but we think with YOUR help, we'll…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth Police say a Walmart loss prevention officer stopped a possible kidnapping Monday evening. The employee confronted a couple who were seen allegedly a 4-year old out of a cart. Witnesses say the pair then left the store, located in the Renaissance Square off of East Berry and drove away…… MORE
NORRISTOWN, PA (KLIF/WBAP) — The sentencing hearing for Bill Cosby continues this morning in a Pennsylvania courtroom. He was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman earlier this year. The 81 year old faces anything from probation to ten years in prison for that conviction. Correspondent Bob Costantini is in the courtroom this week. He…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A group of scientists will try to figure out why Dallas area school kids have higher rates of asthma than kids in the rest of the state and nation. The Dallas Morning News reports more kids are hospitalized for asthma-related symptoms in Dallas County than in other counties in the region,…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A GoFundMe campaign has been created for a North Texas woman who was partially paralyzed in a freak accident during her Hawaiian honeymoon earlier this month. Friends who went to the destination wedding told WFAA-TV that Nikki Lewis was on a boogie-board when a large wave slammed her head-first into the sand,…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Inmates without teeth in Texas are routinely denied dentures because state prison policy says chewing isn’t a medical necessity and that they can eat blended food. The Houston Chronicle reports that medical providers approved 71 dentures to a state prison population of more than 149,000 in 2016. It’s a sharp decline from…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- At a meeting Monday night, The City of Fort Worth’s Race and Culture Task Force talked about ways they can fix problems in the city. Task Force Co-Chair Rosa Navejar says they broke up into committees, like health, housing, economic developments and more to focus on problem areas within the city. “We…… MORE
