DALLAS (AP) — More than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 along a network of pipelines operated by one of the largest natural gas companies in the U.S, leading to nine deaths and badly injuring at least 22 other people, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Dallas Morning…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns is back in the U.S. after being arrested in Taiwan. The U.S. Marshals Service says 30-year-old Cody Wilson was booked into Harris County Jail in Houston early Sunday. He was released Monday morning on…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say bananas donated to a Texas prison turned out to have nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden inside the boxes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a Facebook post that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated because they were already ripe. The…… MORE
OKLAHOMA CTY (AP) – Hundreds of Oklahoma National Guard soldiers are returning home after deploying to Afghanistan for almost one year. The Guard says 350 members of the 1st Squadron, 180th Cavalry Regiment will return to Oklahoma on Tuesday. The unit deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, in late 2017. Officials say the unit was part of…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – A newspaper investigation has found that more than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 because of leaking natural gas. Nine people died and at least 22 others were badly injured. The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday the explosions all happened along a network of pipelines…… MORE
San Angelo (WBAP/KLIF) – Federal authorities say a former Peruvian army sergeant has been arrested in San Angelo on a 27 year old human rights charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says its agents apprehended 48 year old Dennis Wilfredo Pacheco-Zambrano for the 1991 killings of 15 villagers in Peru. The incident is known…… MORE
Plano (WBAP/KLIF) – The city of Plano says flooding Saturday caused two of its sanitary sewers to overflow into nearby waterways. The first occurred near the intersection of San Simeon Way and Independence Parkway. That forced an estimated 100,000 gallons of raw sewage into Spring Creek. The second overflow was reported where Plano Parkway crosses…… MORE
MESQUITE, Texas (AP) – Police in suburban Dallas have arrested a 26-year-old man on a capital murder charge after a young child who was left in his care died. Authorities in Mesquite said in a statement Friday that police were called to a home the previous day where a 3-year-old boy was found unresponsive. The…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Update: Due to localized flooding from heavy rains overnight, Addison Oktoberfest will be closed on Saturday, September 22 with the exception of those with paid reservations at Chamberlain’s Brau Haus. Due to flooding, the InTouch Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival has been cancelled for the remainder of the weekend. (Copyright2018 WBAP/KLIF…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – The body of a drowning victim was recovered early Saturday morning from a flood swollen creek near the UT-Arlington campus. University Police were called late Friday night to search for the 23 year old victim. He reportedly was walking across a bridge over the creek when he was pushed into the water,…… MORE
