DFW International Airport – (WBAP/KLIF) – National Weather Service indicates North Texas has a chance of beating it’s all time rainfall record during the month of October, last set back in 1981. Through midnight, Saturday October 20, measurements at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport reached 12.3 inches of rain. In 1981, the all time record…… MORE
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) – An earthquake has shaken parts of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 4.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 8:04 a.m. Saturday about 9 miles (15 kilometers) north-northeast of Amarillo. The temblor was recorded at a depth of 3 miles (5 kilometers). There were no immediate reports…… MORE
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A San Antonio police detective who was fired last year for what authorities say was his mishandling of more than 130 sexual assault and other cases now is facing several charges that he tampered with evidence. An indictment filed Tuesday shows 46-year-old Kenneth Valdez is charged with eight counts of tampering…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A jury has convicted a North Texas woman of attempted murder for withholding food and nutrients from her young son in a case prosecutors say included subjecting the child to needless surgeries. The Tarrant County jury Friday also found 42-year-old Danita Tutt of Cleburne guilty of causing injury to a…… MORE
FORT WORTH – (WBAP/KLIF) – Nine year old Payton Summons has died of reported heart failure at Fort Worth’s Cook Children’s Medical Center. Center of a legal battle by her family to keep the girl on life support, battling with doctors who announced Payton had no chance of recovery, the family’s attorney announced Payton’s death,…… MORE
ANKARA Turkey (AP) – Saudi state-run media is reporting that prosecutors in the kingdom believe Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a quarrel. State media also quotes prosecutors as saying 18 Saudi nationals are being held on suspicion of being involved in the Washington Post columnist’s death. Saudi…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – An expansion of Klyde Warren Park was announced Friday by VisitDallas and The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. The estimated $76 million project will add 1.2 acres over Woodall Rodgers Freeway, just west of St. Paul Street. This land is planned to be used for a 20,000-square-foot pavilion that will house the state-of-the-art VisitDallas…… MORE
UPDATE: 10:43AM Fort Worth, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – In an email to our news department, the Fort Worth Police Department’s Public Information Office said: “At this time Chief Fitzgerald has not accepted any job offer.” And a tweet from the Baltimore mayor’s office says the the search continues. Spokesperson for office of @MayorPugh50 says selection process…… MORE
Plano, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Plano ISD parents were notified in an email this week that the district will soon begin conducting random metal detector searches of middle and high school students. The Dallas Morning News reports, the students must comply with the random searches or face removal from the school and possible disciplinary action. The searches…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Farmers and business owners voiced concerns Thursday in Dallas about tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. At a town hall meeting on tariff’s at the Texas Ale Project, the President was praised for pressuring countries like China in the trade war. But farmers and ranchers, like Scott Frazier, said he’s feeling the affects…… MORE
