(WBAP/KLIF) – Headquartered in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, Dick’s Sporting Goods — one of the nation’s largest sporting goods retailers — announced this morning that it will no longer sell assault style rifles. Dick’s is ending sales of the controversial firearm, effectively immediately; additionally, it will no longer sell high-capacity magazines and will cease the sale of any…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A fire station in northwest Dallas has been evacuated due to another gas leak. Dallas Fire Rescue Station 43 is about one mile away from the home that exploded last week, leaving a 12 year old girl dead. The station was evacuated while a town hall meeting was taking place at a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The suspect in a fatal shooting at the North End apartment complex in Uptown was killed in an officer-involved shooting Tuesday afternoon. Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall identified the man as 29-year-old Marlon Smith. A few hours into a manhunt, DPD police officers and the U.S. Marshals task force officers caught up with Smith around 1 p.m. on Hulse…… MORE
South Lake Carroll, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – More and more North Texas students are voicing concern about school safety in the wake of recent school shootings. Katie Silverman is a student at Southlake Carroll High School and used to go to school in Parkland, Florida. She told those gathered for a SLC school board meeting last night,…… MORE
Dallas/Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Fire Rescue is trying to determine if a car reported to have gone into the swollen Trinity River last week may be connected to a missing elderly man. 84-year-old James Booth left his home around 9 a.m. on for an appointment Feb. 21, during heavy rains and hasn’t been seen…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – The Dallas Mavericks have hired former AT&T executive Cynthia Marshall as interim CEO a week after allegations of sexual misconduct against former team president Terdema Ussery in a report that also painted a picture of a wider culture of a hostile workplace for women in the franchise. Owner Mark Cuban said Monday…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – Students at a North Texas High School are asking that their voices be heard regarding gun violence in schools. The ninth and tenth graders at Shepton High School staged a walkout Monday on the school’s tennis courts calling for more gun laws and better security at schools. The walk out came nearly…… MORE
McKinney, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A McKinney High School teacher has been suspended after a viral video shows him recording a student fight in his classroom. The video posted to social media last Wednesday shows the unidentified teacher holding up his phone to record a fight between two students, instead of breakin it up. McKinney ISD…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A candlelight vigil was held for the 12-year old girl who was killed in a natural gas explosion Friday The vigil was held outside the Kay Bailley Hutchison Convention Center where Linda Michelita Rogers was to join her elite cheer team at a national tournament. Linda’s mother said, “Pray for me that…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas city leaders are working to take guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. The City of Dallas, the District Attorney’s Office, the Dallas Police Department and other agencies said Friday that they will work together to take guns away from domestic violence convicts and defendants. Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said her…… MORE
