LOS ANGELES (AP) – Award-winning television, film and theater actor Rip Torn has died at the age of 88, according to his publicist. Publicist Rick Miramontez says Torn died Tuesday afternoon at his home with his wife, Amy Wright, and daughters Katie Torn and Angelica Page by his side. No cause of death was given.…… MORE
(McKinney, Texas) – A group of Mckinney teens having some fun in a golf course pond Tuesday night resulted in tragedy. McKinney fire says a 16-year went underwater and began struggling in a pond at the Ranch Country Club golf course. Firefighters arrived on scene and found the teen dead just after 8pm. An investigation…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Self-made billionaire and two-time independent candidate for U.S. president, Ross Perot has died at the age of 89. Perot had been fighting a battle with leukemia. The East Texas native founded Electronic Data Systems Corp, known as EDS, in 1962. The company made him a multi-millionaire by 1968 and he’s often referred to as the “Bill Gates…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A time-battered 95-year old building, north of downtown Fort Worth that once served as the meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan is set for demolition. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the building may be the last standing purpose-built Klan building in the U.S. And now, there is a move…… MORE
Rendon, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A weak earthquake was rattled Tarrant County Monday. A the 2.6 trembler was recorded in Rendon, west of Mansfield, shortly after noon Monday. The depth of the quake was about 3 miles, according to the United States Geological Survey. The Dallas Morning News reports that vibrations of weak earthquakes are similar…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The four Dallas Police Officers and one DART Officer killed in the 2016 Police ambush were honored Monday with the unveiling of a memorial outside the Dallas Police Headquarters. The ceremony came a day after the third anniversary of the shootings, which was the deadliest attack on law enforcement since September 11, 2001.…… MORE
Collin County, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Collin County Sheriff’s Department may have unraveled a counterfeit money operation in the process of its investigation into an alleged assault at an assisted care facility in Lucas last month. In a tweet, the department said that their investigation, over the past three weeks revealed that a former caregiver…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth police say a tow truck driver was killed this morning after being struck by his own truck on I35W at Alliance Gateway Freeway. Police say the driver was pulled over on the service road around 3am, trying to secure a vehicle that he was towing from a nearby apartment…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Officials are set to unveil a sculpture honoring five police officers killed in a sniper attack in downtown Dallas three years ago. Sunday marks three years since Micah Johnson opened fire on a peaceful protest. The Army veteran killed four Dallas police officers and one transit officer. Authorities killed Johnson using a…… MORE
FORT WORTH – It’s been a few weeks delayed with constant cold and cool fronts moving into North Texas, bringing violent winds and torrential rainfall, but the terrible Texas heat is finally with us. National Weather Service meteorologist Patricia Sanchez says though we’ve been feeling on and off heat index values in excess of 100F…… MORE
