TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Officials in Tarrant County are warning the public to be on alert after they said local voters received postcards asking them to find out if their vote counted in the recent Fort Worth runoff elections. These postcards, officials said, did not come from Tarrant County, nor did they come from the…… MORE
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) – The Border Patrol says at least six people were injured when a semitrailer cut off one of its vans on a West Texas highway, forcing it off the road. Border Patrol spokesman Greg Davis says the crash happened Thursday morning on Interstate 10 about two miles east of Van Horn.…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Construction will soon begin on a project aimed at improving the busy University Drive in Fort Worth and improve access to the city’s cultural district. “We are focusing on improving pedestrian safety and enhancing alternative modes of transportation and bike paths as well as some enhancements to transit along the corridor,” said William…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB) has extended their agreement with Fort Worth ISD to hold Mega Mobile Markets at Herman Clark Stadium through the month of August. This will allow Tarrant area families to continually receive food assistance from this location, one of TAFB’s most consistent distribution locations of the past…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democratic leaders are demanding that former Attorneys General Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions testify about the secret seizure of data from House Democrats in 2018. They called it “shocking” and a “gross abuse of power.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said in a statement Friday that…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF News) – McKinney Police are hoping recently released surveillance video will help them catch the suspect in a rash of porch thefts. They’re hoping the public can help them identify and catch the woman caught on camera stealing residents’ packages. Investigators said one theft took place just south of El Dorado Parkway, between…… MORE
Lancaster, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Lancaster isd has confirmed that it was the target of a ransomeware attack. a hacking group known as “Grief” unloaded sensitive information like social security numbers and dates of birth to dark web, according to WFAA. Cyber-threat analyst Brett Callow says that it’s the kind of data dump that generally leads…… MORE
Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed by a cop. And amid the national reckoning on policing, communities are questioning who should become a police officer today. Mass protests and calls for…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – In a written column for RealClearPolicy, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson touted several Dallas public safety initiatives. In the column titled, ‘We Must Make Policing Better Without ‘Defunding’ or ‘Dismantling,’ Mayor Johnson wrote that instead of talking about stripping funding from police departments for other programs amid an uptick in violent crime, local…… MORE
Wichita Falls, (AP) – A Texas man has pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia. 28 year old Seth Pendley of Wichita Falls entered his plea before a federal magistrate judge . Pendley admitted he told an undercover FBI agent posing as an explosives supplier that he wanted to…… MORE
