MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF News) – McKinney has been named on the fastest growing cities in the country. According to the city’s annual population estimate, nearly 180,000 North Texans live there. That’s a 6.8 percent increase from January 2017. The city estimates that the population has increased 365 percent during the last 20 years. Mayor George Fuller said…… MORE
(Forney, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Allegations of hazing involving players of the Forney High School boys soccer team have prompted a criminal investigation. The Kaufman County Sheriff’s Department says five student athletes are facing Sexual Assault charges. Four of the five students are juveniles. Arrests were made Thursday. Forney ISD officials released a statement confirming that…… MORE
UPDATED 7:47AM Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – As the shooting death of a 3-year old Fort Worth boy continues, police now say that it’s now known if the toddler, identified as Jonnie Colon accidentally shot himself or whether or not the shooting was intentional. Police were called to home on Lawnwood Street around 9:45 last night…… MORE
COLLEGE STATION (WBAP/KLIF News) – A hurricane-relief campaign backed by all of the living former United States presidents has raised over $41 million for victims in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The George Bush Foundation’s David Jones said the fundraiser shows how Americans come together despite their differences when tragedy strikes. Over…… MORE
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan judge sentenced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 in prison for multiple sexual assaults of women and girls. At the Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told Nassar, “I just signed your death warrant.” The sentence capped a remarkable seven-day hearing that brought more than 150 victims…… MORE
ITALY,Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Family and friends of the victim of a shooting at Italy High School in Ellis County said she’s in “good spirits” despite a long-road to recovery. According to a GoFundMe account set up for 15-year-old Noelle “Cricket” Jones, she sustained serious injuries including a bullet lodged in her neck, another removed from her abdomen and her…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A Fort Worth man has been identified as one of five employees killed following an explosion on an Oklahoma oil rig. Authorities confirmed that 35-year-old Josh Ray’s remains, along with four others, were found Tuesday, a day after the explosion at the drilling site near Quinton, Oklahoma about 100 miles southeast of…… MORE
ITALY, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – A tearful prayer vigin at a small North Texas church to pray for a girl wounded in a shooting at the town’s high school. The vigil Monday night at Central Baptist Church in Italy was held to bring comfort to residents in the town of about 2,000 in the wake of…… MORE
PARKER COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – Firefighters have contained a series of massive grass fires in Parker and Grayson Counties Monday. The Texas Forest service said gusty winds of up to 30 mph help spread the blaze across 1,000 acres. Parker County Judge Mark Riley gave an update shortly after 5 p.m. He said he declared a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP/WBAP/KLIF News) – The House passed a bill Monday afternoon that would fund federal agencies through February 8th. The 266-150 vote came hours after the Senate passed the bill. The move marks the potential end of a government shutdown that began Saturday after Democrats derailed a Republican measure that would have kept government open until…… MORE
