Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Oak Cliff woman died, along with a number of pet dogs in a duplex fire early today. Dallas fire crews are still on the scene where the one-alarm blazed gutted the home in Kessler Park. Firefighters pulled sevearal dead dogs out of the home. One man in the adjoining unit…… MORE
Grand Prairie, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – An HIV-infected businessman from Richardson was charged by Grand Prairie Police for allegedly trying to meet a teen for sex. 51-year old Jeffrey Steven Rudluff had unknowingly been communicating online with an undercover Grand Prairie detective posing as a teen. Rutliff admitted to being HIV-positive after police found what is…… MORE
Garland (WBAP/KLIF) – The next time you apply for or renew a Texas driver’s license or Identification card, you’ll have the option to support victims of sexual assault. In-person, mailed, and online applications will now ask if you’d like to donate $1 or more towards testing evidence in sexual assault cases. State representative Victoria Neave,…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House said President Donald Trump is proposing to provide a path to citizenship for 1.8 million younger immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The plan is likely to get a mixed reaction on Capitol Hill. Senior White House officials are offering a preview of Trump’s immigration framework, casting it as a…… MORE
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
