(Texas A&M Forest Service) – WBAP/KLIF – Texas A & M Forest Service officials warn 2022 is shaping up to be the most destructive fire season since 2011.Central Texas is particularly hard hit this year; 988 fires there, and statewide, 6900 fires statewide so far, charring 699-thousand acres. A small wildfire in hard-hit Bastrop County…… MORE
People with chronic conditions, obesity, heart disease, and those with poor blood circulation are more likely to undergo heat exhaustion. DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – On Thursday, Aug. 11, Dallas County Health and Human Services reported their second heat- related death. A 77-year-old male with underlying health conditions suffered from a heat stroke. DCHHS Director Dr. Philip…… MORE
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) – Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied Rushdie, who is 75, was flown…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Multiple news reports say the FBI has recovered several documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, a federal judge was weighing whether to unseal the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week. Attorney General Merrick Garland declared…… MORE
ELLIS COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Ellis County Sheriff’s Offices’ Criminal Investigations Division arrested five people as part of an undercover operation targeting those who prey on children. “Operation Overwatch” is joint operation between nine state and location agencies. Investigators identified eight suspects. Arrest warrants have been issued for three suspects who were not…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced this week the mobilization of additional state resources to assist local fire departments in battling wildfires across Texas. With increased fire potential worsened by excessively dry conditions, the Governor is directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management to deploy state resources in collaboration with the Texas A&M…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County Health and Human Services, on Thursday, reported the second heat-related death in the County for the 2022 season. According to DCHHS, the patient was a 77 year-old male and a resident of the City of Dallas who had underlying health conditions. “We are very saddened to report our second heat-related death this…… MORE
CINCINNATI (AP) — An armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio on Thursday, then fled and was injured in an exchange of gunfire in a standoff with law enforcement, authorities said. The confrontation that began at the FBI’s Cincinnati field office…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department has asked a court to unseal the search warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday. Garland cited the “substantial public interest in this matter” in announcing the request at a hastily scheduled Justice Department…… MORE
HAWAII (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Hawaii Police arrested an OnlyFans model and Instagram influencer accused in the stabbing death of her North Texas boyfriend in Miami in April. The Miami Herald reported that 26-year-old Courtney Clenney was taken into custody on Wednesday in Hawaii and will be extradited to Miami-Dade County to face trial in…… MORE
