(WBAP/KLIF News) NASA has just announced the discovery of seven Earth-like planets outside our solar system. The planets are all in the same system and 3 of them are considered to possibly contain life. Nikole Lewis is an astronomer at the NASA-operated Space Telescope Science Institute. She says the system is 40 light years away, so…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Dallas Independent School District teacher has been charged with making terroristic threats after police said he allegedly sent threatening emails to school staff. DISD police said Omar Alanis, a world history teacher at Seagoville High School, allegedly admitted to investigators that he sent the emails from his work email to school staff…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – The mayor of Fort Worth has laid out a vision for the next eight years. Betsy Price delivered her sixth “State of the City” address since taking office. “My vision for the future of Ft. Worth is that we are the most livable, healthiest, best education, engaged, fiscally responsible and…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has ordered a new court hearing for a black Texas prison inmate who claims improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence. The justices voted 6-2 Wednesday in favor of inmate Duane Buck. Buck had tried for years to get federal courts to look at his claim that…… MORE
ELLIS COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – A former Maypearl police chief was sentenced to 40 years in prison for child sex crimes. A judge slapped Kevin Coffey with the maximum sentenced allowed after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault and indecency with a 14-year-old girl last Friday. The victim testified that Coffey would kiss her, tough…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A federal judge has stopped Texas from cutting off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015. The decision by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks on Tuesday preserves what Planned Parenthood says are non-abortion services to nearly 11,000 low-income women. Texas originally intended to…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF News) Tacos may become the new official dish of texas. A change.org petition suggests it’s time to change the state food. Chili con Carne has been the official dish for the Lone Star State since 1977. Taco author Mando Rayo, who launched the petition, told the Dallas Morning News that the taco is more diverse than chili…… MORE
MELBOURNE (WBAP & KLIF News) — Three of the four Americans killed in a small plane crash in Australia had Texas ties. The plane crashed in Melbourne, where Greg Reynolds De Haven, Russell Muntsch and Glenn Garland were on their way to play golf. The pilot of the small charter was also killed after reporting…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A new plan to fix Dallas’ Police and Fire pension problem has been approved by the city’s pension board. The plan proposed by State Representative Dan Flynn was chosen over one brought forward by the City of Dallas. Flynn’s plan asks the city to put in $22 million each year. The…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF News) If using Facebook on your phone is more annoying for you now than it was last month, that’s probably because of a new feature. Devices are slowly being updated with a feature that has the audio for videos on your newsfeed play automatically. Chris Kraft is the CEO of Share Rocket, a social media ratings…… MORE
