UPDATE: Hurricane Ida has made landfall on Grand Isle, Louisiana, packing sustained winds of 150 miles an hour, 7 miles an hour shy of Category 5 status, and howling wind gusts to 185 miles an hour. Mainland landfall is expected to just west of New Orleans, greatly impacting the cities of Houma, Chavin and Golden…… MORE
UPDATE: Officials say a U.S. military drone strike on a vehicle reported as packed with explosives and headed to the Kabul airport for another suicide bombing mission destroyed the vehicle in the city of Kabul. Officials say they expect more attack threats as the U.S. military final pullout date of August 31rst approaches. ISIS-K is…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Two Texas police officers have been indicted on murder charges in a line-of-duty fatal shooting of an Austin scientist. One of the officers, Christopher Taylor, was already under a murder indictment for another on-duty shooting death in Austin. A Travis County grand jury indicted Taylor and Officer Karl Krycia on murder and…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – A 12 state law enforcement investigation that included operations in Texas rescued 47 victims of human trafficking, and led to the arrests of more than 100 suspects. Most of the arrests were made in a series of rapid apprehensions Thursday night into Friday morning. The investigation, code named Operation United Front, used…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The spread of COVID-19 has hampered this weekend’s high school football games across North Texas. At least 30 games were canceled in Texas and Dallas ISD Executive Athletic Director Slivia Salinas says players and fans have anticipated this longed-awaited event. Salinas says the school continues to work with county health officials to ensure…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A Fort Worth man pleads guilty to killing a fellow college student in Louisiana. 24 year-old Brandon Theesfeld avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to first degree murder in the death of 21 year old Ally Kostial. In 2019, Theesfeld reportedly took the young woman to a lake near campus to discuss Kostial…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – If you’ve got a flight with Southwest Airlines you better make sure it hasn’t been canceled. The Fort Worth base airline is reducing its flight schedule for the remainder of the year. The cancelations are due to numbers factors including the rise in COVID-19 cases impacting travel, and Southwest staff claiming to…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center warned. “The forecast track has it headed straight towards New Orleans. Not good,” said Jim Kossin, a senior scientist…… MORE
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States pressed on into the final days of the chaotic airlift from Afghanistan amid tighter security and warnings of more possible attacks Friday, a day after a devastating suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed well over 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members. The U.S. said more bloodshed…… MORE
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott has ordered Texas flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff to honor the U.S. service members who lost their lives during an attack at the airport yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan. I ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor the U.S. service members killed in yesterday’s horrific…… MORE
