Frisco (WBAP/KLIF) – The criminal prosecution of Frisco-based Novus Health Services is moving into high gear with another of the defendants accepting a plea bargain with prosecutors. Hospice nurse Taryn Stuart has agreed to plead guilty to one count of health care fraud while admitting she fatally over-dosed at least two patients at the direction…… MORE
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Fuel Spill Closes High Five Interchange in North Dallas
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The headache of headaches for North Texas travelers came Thursday with most of the Dallas High Five interchange closed for hours. A fuel spill Thursday morning led to hours of cleanup on various ramps in the large interchange connecting I-635/LBJ Freeway and U.S. 75/Central Expressway in North Dallas. The High Five was…… MORE
Anti-Liberal Billboard in Texas Panhandle to Come Down
VEGA, Texas (WBAP/KLIF News) — The billboard in the Texas panhandle that told liberals to keep on driving out of Texas is coming down. The owner of the billboard tells the Fort Worth Star Telegram that media coverage and social media backlash resulting from its message is the reason he’s removing it. He says he…… MORE
Poor Air Quality Leads to New TxDOT Clean Air Campaign
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Poor air quality in North Texas has TxDOT telling drivers to take action. TxDOT is launching its “Drive Clean Texas” campaign to help move the Metroplex out of a classification that says its air quality does not meet federal standards. “Summer’s just now beginning, and when slow wind speeds and hot sunny…… MORE
Trump Signs Executive Order Keeping Families Together
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep families together at the southern border, saying at the White House that he doesn’t like the sight of children being separated from their families. He said, “We are keeping families together.” But the president added the “zero tolerance” policy will continue. Vice…… MORE
Fort Worth Non-Profit Housing Immigrant Children Separated From Families
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — Some of the children being separated from their families at the Texas-Mexico border are being given refuge in Fort Worth. Catholic Charities Fort Worth is housing a handful of the kids, though its unknown exactly how many that is. The non-profit has 26 beds available for refugees. According to WFAA…… MORE
You Could Be Fined Up To $500 For Wild Parties in Mesquite
MESQUITE (WBAP/KLIF) – The Mesquite City Council amended the City’s Code to provide a stricter enforcement of parties with ten or more attendees that become a nuisance for neighbors. The new ordinance allows police officers to shut down a party if there is evidence of excessive noise, vehicles blocking the street or other actions of…… MORE
HUD Secretary Ben Carson Launches EnVision Center in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – A program started by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is operating in Fort Worth. One of Secretary Carson’s signature initiatives, EnVision Centers offers HUD-assisted families access to support services that can help them achieve self-sufficiency, thereby making scarce federal resources more readily available to a greater number of…… MORE
Ted Cruz: “This Must Stop. Now.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he is introducing emergency legislation intended to keep migrant families together. Cruz has released a statement saying: “All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers. This must stop. Now.” The Republican…… MORE
A road rage incident results in criminal charges
Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – A 27 year old Sunnyvale resident has been arrested for a road rage incident about two weeks ago in Mesquite. According to police Corey Graham became enraged while following a group of motorcyclists on Highway 80. When they pulled over to the shoulder he did too. They argued, then Graham got back…… MORE
