(WBAP/KLIF) FORT WORTH, Texas — More than 30 people, including 9 firefighters, were treated after a hazmat incident at a Fort Worth business on Friday afternoon. According to the Fire Department, the firefighters were taken to a hospital for further treatment. The remaining 23 civilians went through a “decontamination process” at the scene, fire officials…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police have arrested two people in connection with a string of alleged armed robberies of DISD students in Oak Cliff in recent weeks. 18-year old Christopher Wade and a 17-year old were taking into custody Thursday. Police say Dixon and Wade were positively identified as the suspects who robbed students of…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Big Tex asked and Texas answered! After over 250 entries in the Big Tex Boot Design contest, the winner is Katie Sauceda of Keller. Katie created a design that pays homage to Lone Star State, complete with the Texas flag, the Alamo and a longhorn on the boots. She now gets to…… MORE
Denton, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A Denton man was sentenced Thursday to nearly five decades in prison after being convicted for causing injury to a child. 48-year old John Scott Tufts was found guilty of using a toy doll in the gruesome sexual assault of a 5-year girl in 2016. Tufts caused serious injury from what…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Former Congressman Ralph Hall, the oldest-ever member of the U.S. House, has died at age 95. Hall’s longtime strategist, Ed Valentine, says the Texas Republican died at his home Thursday morning. Hall became the oldest member of the U.S. House in 2012, breaking North Carolina Representative Charles Manly Stedman’s record. Stedman…… MORE
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – The U.S. Border Patrol reports it has taken more than 700 migrants into custody at the Texas-Mexico border in El Paso within a 24-hour period. In a statement, the patrol said the detentions involved several large groups of migrants that crossed the border illegally late Tuesday and Wednesday. It said…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A former Dallas police officer who was fired two years ago for inappropriate use of force and turning off a police camera says it took the department until this week to ask for his gear back. Josh Forner tells WFAA-TV, since he was fired, nobody ever asked him to return his uniform,…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas judge has given Sini Mathews her passport back nearly a week after charges were dropped against her in connection with the death of her adoptive daughter in 2017. 3-year old Sherin Mathews was found dead in a culvert in Richardson, weeks after she was reported missing; her adoptive father is…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson visits Fort Worth to talk with Mayor Betsy Price about public private public partnerships to help end homelessness. Carson spoke with Price about Fort Worth’s successful initiative that housed over 180 homeless veterans in 100 days. “the key that has really cut veteran homelessness from 2010 to…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The Fort Worth city manager plans to implement all 22 recommendations made by the Fort Worth Task Force on Race and Culture after the city council approved them Tuesday. The task force was created in 2017 after the controversial police arrest of a mother who called police for assistance after alleging…… MORE
