FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — According to Fort Worth city records, thousands of drivers are refusing to pay tickets that come from the hotly debated red light cameras. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports more than half of the nearly 225,000 tickets issued by the cameras last year were sent to collection agencies. For a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – True to form, Democrat Beto O’Rourke started the day with a rally in his hometown of El Paso. According to a press release, O’ Rourke has a series of rallies scheduled across the state, including a stop at Texas Southern University in Houston, a historically black university, late this afternoon around…… MORE
UPDATE: 3/30/2019 10:18 am – After holding police at bay for nearly 15 hours, a suspect identified as Bryan M. Cahill, 42, of Frisco is in custody after a long standoff at a Frisco apartment complex ended Saturday morning. Cahill had barricaded himself inside of a unit at Frisco’s LA Valencia Apartments all night. He…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The white man caught on video repeatedly punching a black woman in Deep Ellum last week was re-arrested Friday morning. According to jail records, Austin Shuffield was booked into the Dallas County jail after 8:30 a.m. Friday for carrying a weapon without a license. The Dallas Police Department added the charge to…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Fire Rescue battled a four-alarm apartment fire Friday afternoon in Northwest Dallas. The blaze took out Forest West Condominiums at 3022 Forest Lane near LBJ Freeway and I-35E. There were no reported injuries however 40 people are without homes. American Red Cross DFW has been notified and will assist these people.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police filed additional charges Thursday against a man seen on camera repeatedly punching a woman outside a Deep Ellum bar last week. Austin Shuffield is now also charged with Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon. The Dallas Police Department has also sent a an Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon charge, which is…… MORE
CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF) – The Carrollton Police Department is asking for the public’s help investigating the death of an infant. According to Police, on Monday, March 11, a caretaker at the Perry Cemetery emptied what he knew to be an out of place flowerpot and discovered the body of a deceased infant beneath the pot’s soil. The medical…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Southwest Airlines says thousands of canceled flights, including 2,800 due to grounding its Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, are contributing to weaker bookings and $150 million less in first-quarter revenue than previously expected. The airline expects to cancel 9,400 flights in the quarter, which ends Sunday. Some have been caused by bad…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth firearm parts distributor shredded tens of thousands — millions of dollars worth — of bump stocks Tuesday as a nationwide ban took effect. RW Arms destroyed 60-thousand of the controversial devices that essentially turned legal weapons into machines guns, bringing the company into compliance with the ban. It’s…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Richardson woman is vying to make freshman Rep. Colin Allred a one-term congressman. Just months after being sworn in as Texas’ newest 32nd District congressman following his defeat of Republican Pete Sessions last year, another Republican has emerged in an effort to take back the seat from the Democrat. Tania Burgess…… MORE
