Klein (AP) – Seven people have been injured in a natural gas explosion near Houston. Comcast workers reportedly struck a gas line while working in Klein on Friday. CenterPoint Energy crews that were brought in to fix the line struck a larger, 6 inch gas line that sparked the explosion. All seven of the injured…… MORE
Juneau, Alaska (AP) – An Alaska Native cultural organization and the Dallas based luxury department store Neiman Marcus have settled a lawsuit over the sale of a coat with a copyrighted, geometric design borrowed from Indigenous culture. The Sealaska Heritage Institute says it has agreed to work with Neiman Marcus and 11 other defendants to…… MORE
Houston (AP) – The FBI says it has arrested a Houston area man accused of throwing a desk drawer and other items at officers, and smashing a window during the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. The FBI’s Houston office says Shane Jenkins was arrested Friday morning at his home. Agents allege Jenkins used a…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Prosecutors filed a second murder charge against a Texas woman accused of killing an expectant mother and removing her baby. 28-year-old Taylor Parker was originally charged with murder and kidnapping in the death of 21 year old Regan Michelle Simmons-Hancock. On Thursday, a Bowie grand jury also charged Parker in the death of…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas is set to receive over a million COVID-19 vaccine doses, next week. Sccording to state officials the vaccines will consist of first doses, along with almost a quarter-million being the new single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The federal government will send more than 200,000 doses directly to pharmacies and federally qualified health…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF)- A Plano mother and her attorneys met with Plano police asking for justice after her 13-year-old son was severely bullied. Summer Smith says in the video, her son SeMarion was bullied, tortured and forced to drink his teammates urine while they were yelling racial slurs at him. The incident took place at a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The FBI Dallas Office denies claims that it recommended against taking a Dallas Police Officer off-duty while he was being investigated in two murder cases. Former Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said late Thursday on Twitter that Bryan Riser wasn’t placed on leave at the recommendation of the FBI. FYI: @wfaa @dallasnews…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is creating awareness around what it calls the continued increase in violence and hatred directed at Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the group, ‘Stop Asian American and Pacific Islander Hate,’ nearly 3,000 incidents of anti-Asian incidents in the United States between March and…… MORE
NEW BOSTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Texas woman jailed on kidnapping and murder charges for the brutal slaying of a pregnant New Boston woman and the removal of her baby is now facing a second murder charge, according to the Associated Press. The Texarkana Gazette reports, a Bowie County grand jury on Thursday indicted 28-year-old…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A report commissioned by the Texas Public Utility Council says ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, overcharged utility companies to the tune of $16 billion for two days after widespread power outages ended last month. Potomac Economics, the independent market monitor for the PUC, has confirmed what some independent power…… MORE
