VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the Rome hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said. The 86-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, doesn’t have COVID-19, spokesman Matteo Bruni…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Forth Worth police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating after a construction worker was killed in an accident Wednesday morning. Investigators said it happened around 4:45 a.m. at a construction site near the Northeast Loop 820 and North Railhead Road in north Fort Worth. A worker…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It’s a move that some advocates have long sought as a way to improve access to a life-saving drug, though the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas church community is hurting in the wake of this week’s school shooting in Nashville. Three adults and three students were killed inside the Covenant School. Hundreds of People packed Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas on Tuesday for a vigil. The service was meant to lift up the family of…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – The Plano Police Department will host a free drug forum this week to help educate the public on the growing concerns and dangers of fentanyl and other illegal narcotics. The event will be held on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Plano Event Center. After the forum, attendees will be invited to…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that former Vice President Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury after he was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. That’s according to two people familiar with…… MORE
Substance abuse experts say preliminary research is promising news in the treatment of alcohol abuse which effects nearly 30 million Americans. Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Amid the current substance abuse crisis surrounding opioids and fentanyl, researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in the treatment alcohol abuse disorders. A medication used to treat a common skin condition…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fort Worth police are asking the public for help to find out how the body of a woman ended up under a bridge. Officers found 19-year-old Janeecia “Nene” Mason under the bridge on Precinct Line Road around 9 a.m. last Thursday. On March 20, Mason’s sister wrote on Facebook…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The deadly school shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee has a North Texas tie. One of the six victims, 9-year-old Hallie Scruggs, is the daughter of a former pastor at Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Chad Scruggs was the associate pastor at the church before becoming a…… MORE
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A female shooter wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday, authorities said. The suspect also died after being shot by police. The violence occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from…… MORE
