Category Archives: Promo Reel

North Texas Woman Partially Paralyzed in Freak Accident During Hawaiian Honeymoon

North Texas Woman Partially Paralyzed in Freak Accident During Hawaiian Honeymoon

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A GoFundMe campaign has been created for a North Texas woman who was partially paralyzed in a freak accident during her Hawaiian honeymoon earlier this month. Friends who went to the destination wedding told WFAA-TV that Nikki Lewis was on a boogie-board when a large wave slammed her head-first into the sand,…MORE

Amber Guyger Fired By Dallas Police Department

Amber Guyger Fired By Dallas Police Department

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall has fired Officer Amber Guyger following a controversial shooting earlier this month. Guyger admits to shooting Botham Jean on September 6th, after she said she accidentally went into his apartment at the Southside at Lamar Flats thinking it was hers. The Texas Rangers and the Dallas County…MORE

Amber Alert for Missing 11-Year Girl Discontinued; Child Found Safe

Amber Alert for Missing 11-Year Girl Discontinued; Child Found Safe

UPDATED: 9/24/18   9:32AM Bellmead, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Bellmead Police say an Amber alert for an 11-year old has been discontinued. The child has been found safe. — Original post: Bellmead, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – An Amber alert is in effect for an 11-year-old girl last seen in Bellmead, just north of Waco. Bellmead Police believe 11-year-old…MORE

Arlington Bowie Football Coach Makes Daring High Water Rescue

Arlington Bowie Football Coach Makes Daring High Water Rescue

Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Arlington Bowie head football coach Danny DeArman who made a daring water rescue Saturday during flooding rains. A woman’s car had stalled out in high water the I-30 service road near Caddo Mills. DeArman waded, then swam to the woman’s car. At one point during the current from the rushing floodwaters swept…MORE

Divers Search Benbrook Lake in Search of Clues in 1974 Disappearance of 3 Fort Worth Girls

Divers Search Benbrook Lake in Search of Clues in 1974 Disappearance of 3 Fort Worth Girls

Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – In connection with one of Fort Worth’s most notable cold cases, over 100 onlookers Awatched Saturday as divers pulled submerged cars out of Benbrook Lake. Investigators continue looking for clues into the 1974 disappearance of 3 girls who went missing from the then Seminary South Shopping Center on South Freeway. One…MORE

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Receives Donation Worth Estimated $18 Million

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Receives Donation Worth Estimated $18 Million

HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say bananas donated to a Texas prison turned out to have nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden inside the boxes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a Facebook post that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated because they were already ripe. The…MORE

Hundreds of Soldiers Returning Home From Afghanistan

Hundreds of Soldiers Returning Home From Afghanistan

OKLAHOMA CTY (AP) – Hundreds of Oklahoma National Guard soldiers are returning home after deploying to Afghanistan for almost one year. The Guard says 350 members of the 1st Squadron, 180th Cavalry Regiment will return to Oklahoma on Tuesday. The unit deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, in late 2017. Officials say the unit was part of…MORE

Atmos Energy Corp Denies Fault After Home Explosions & Deaths

Atmos Energy Corp Denies Fault After Home Explosions & Deaths

DALLAS (AP) – A newspaper investigation has found that more than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 because of leaking natural gas. Nine people died and at least 22 others were badly injured. The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday the explosions all happened along a network of pipelines…MORE

A Mesquite Man Arrested On A Capital Murder Charge, After 3 Year Old Dies

A Mesquite Man Arrested On A Capital Murder Charge, After 3 Year Old Dies

MESQUITE, Texas (AP) – Police in suburban Dallas have arrested a 26-year-old man on a capital murder charge after a young child who was left in his care died. Authorities in Mesquite said in a statement Friday that police were called to a home the previous day where a 3-year-old boy was found unresponsive. The…MORE

Flooding  & Event Cancellations Reported in DFW Area

Flooding & Event Cancellations Reported in DFW Area

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Update: Due to localized flooding from heavy rains overnight, Addison Oktoberfest will be closed on Saturday, September 22 with the exception of those with paid reservations at Chamberlain’s Brau Haus. Due to flooding, the InTouch Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival has been cancelled for the remainder of the weekend. (Copyright2018 WBAP/KLIF…MORE