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White Settlement Police Release Commemorative Badge

White Settlement Police Release Commemorative Badge

(WBAP/KLIF) — The White Settlement Police Department unveiled a commemorative police badge and coin, Wednesday, highlighting the 80-year partnership between the community, Lockheed-Martin, and the U.S. Air Force. In 1942, the first B-24 Liberator bomber rolled off the assembly line in White Settlement. Since that time, members of the community have worked at Lockheed-Martin to…MORE

H-E-B Store Opens its Doors in Plano

H-E-B Store Opens its Doors in Plano

PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – The first H-E-B grocery store in Plano opened on Wednesday near the intersection of Preston Road and Spring Creek. The opening is one of several planned by the grocery store chain in the DFW metroplex. A Frisco location opened earlier this year, and stores are expected to be built in Fort Worth,…MORE

Body Cam Video Released in Methodist Hospital Shooting

Body Cam Video Released in Methodist Hospital Shooting

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Police Department released body camera footage on Wednesday of the October 22 killings inside Methodist Hospital in Dallas. The shooting marked the first officer-involved shooting involving a Methodist Health System Police Department officer in 2022. According to DPD, 30-year-old Nestor Hernandez arrived at Methodist Dallas Medical Center on October 22…MORE

Fed Unleashes Another Big Rate Hike but Hints at a Pullback

Fed Unleashes Another Big Rate Hike but Hints at a Pullback

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve pumped up its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a point for a fourth straight time but hinted that it could soon reduce the size of its rate hikes. It was the Fed’s sixth rate hike this year – a streak that has made mortgages and…MORE

UPDATE: Missing Denton County Woman Found Safe

UPDATE: Missing Denton County Woman Found Safe

UPDATE 10:52 a.m.: The Denton County Sheriff’s Office said Prudence Dodd has been found safe. DENTON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Denton County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to help in the search for a missing elderly woman whose family said vanished during a planned trip to Waco. According to investigators, 81-year-old Prudence Dodd…MORE

Powell likely to be pressed on whether Fed will slow hikes

Powell likely to be pressed on whether Fed will slow hikes

WASHINGTON (AP) – Looming over the Federal Reserve meeting that ends Wednesday is a question of intense interest: Just how high will the Fed’s inflation-fighters raise interest rates – and might they slow their rate hikes as soon as next month? The Fed is expected to announce a hefty three-quarter-point hike in its key short-term…MORE

Baby girl and father dead after AMBER Alert out of Rosenberg, TX

Baby girl and father dead after AMBER Alert out of Rosenberg, TX

Sugarland, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A one-year old girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert issued last night out of Rosenberg, Texas was pronounced dead this morning after being taken to a hospital. Sugarland police say Leylani Ordonez had been abducted by her father last night around 6pm. The father, 24-year old Alexander Ordonez…MORE

REPORT: U.S. Capitol Police ‘weren’t monitoring live security cams outside Pelosi home’

REPORT: U.S. Capitol Police ‘weren’t monitoring live security cams outside Pelosi home’

FOX NEWS (WBAP/KLIF)- Officers from the U.S. Capitol Police have live video surveillance outside the Pelosi’s San Francisco residence, but weren’t watching it when David DePape, 42, allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sources tell Fox News. The officers were monitoring a live-feed of many cameras, which include surveillance of the capitol…MORE

Fundraising Numbers Released in Final Stretch of Governor’s Race

Fundraising Numbers Released in Final Stretch of Governor’s Race

(WBAP/KLIF) – The final stretch of fundraising in the race for Texas Governor saw Democrat Beto O’Rourke edge incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott. Beto O’Rourke announced on Tuesday that his campaign for governor raised $10.5 million from more than 237,500 contributions between September 30 and October 29. Teachers once again pitched in more times than…MORE

Pre-School Students Sickened after THC Exposure on Halloween

Pre-School Students Sickened after THC Exposure on Halloween

PROSPER (WBAP/KLIF) – A pre-school student is in stable condition in a local hospital after Police say four children were exposed to THC on Halloween. An employee at the school was arrested. According to Prosper Police, on Monday, October 31, Officers responded to Primrose School of Prosper, located at 1185 La Cima Blvd just after…MORE