DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The State Fair of Texas is celebrating a record year. According to the fair, the 2022 State Fair of Texas welcomes a record-breaking 2,547,289 fairgoers. “At its core, the State Fair of Texas is about community,” said State Fair of Texas President, Mitchell Glieber. “There is nothing more fulfilling for our team…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Department of Criminal Justice released a statement on Tuesday related to the parolee charged with Capital Murder in the killings of two Dallas Methodist Hospital employees on the mother-baby unit over the weekend. On Monday, the Methodist Police Chief said that his department was not notified that Nestor Hernandez would…… MORE
BURLESON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Burleson Independent School District’s Board of Trustees approved the hiring of eight former law enforcement officers with elite training and skills to protect student and staff at their elementary schools. At Monday night’s meeting, the board unanimously approved placing the armed officers on those campuses. According to the district, the…… MORE
Our media partner WFAA-TV took a look at Tarrant, Collin, Denton and Dallas counties. DFW (WBAP/KLIF) _ Heavy rains that pummeled much of the metroplex on Monday didn’t hamper thousands of early voters from casting ballots on Day 1 on early voting. Numbers reported from some of the largest counties across DFW to our media…… MORE
UPDATED: 8:13AM MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian court has upheld the nine-year prison sentence handed to American basketball star Brittney Griner for drug possession, rejecting her appeal. Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing…… MORE
UPDATE 10-25-22 4:02AM McKinney (WBAP/KLIF) – Residents of McKinney’s historic Wilcox neighborhood are stunned by an early Monday fire that destroyed 3 structures. Fire investigators are still looking into the cause of the blaze that torched the New Outreach Church of God in Christ, a Chicken Express and a house where an adult and three…… MORE
Windy conditions are expected to continue through this morning. Make sure to secure all of your outdoor decorations. Tuesday Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 69. Breezy, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 35…… MORE
Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) – A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and wounding six others before police killed him. The shooting just after 9 a.m. at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School forced students to barricade doors and huddle in…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The suspected shooter in the deadly shooting inside the Labor and Delivery Unit at Methodist Hospital in Dallas is said to have been angry at his girlfriend when he shot and killed the two Methodist employees. According to Police, Nestor Hernandez was out of jail on parole and was wearing an ankle…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The man who sold Malik Faisal Akram the gun he used to kidnap hostages in a Colleyville synagogue was sentenced on Monday to nearly eight years in prison for a firearm crime, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. 33-year-old Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams was charged…… MORE
