PLANO (WBAP/KLIF News) – J.C. Penney announced today that it’s closing more stores in an effort to compete with online retailers. The Plano based retailer plans to close between 130-140 stores over the next few months, in addition to two distribution centers in Florida and California. Marvin R. Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of JCPenney…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — As a transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity High School competes in a state tournament this weekend, the lawyer who is suing the University Interscholastic League for allowing it to happen is speaking out. Attorney Jim Baudhuin is the father of a girl wrestler in a different weight class as Mack Beggs,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The House will consider a bill that could lead to the dismantling of Dallas County Schools. It’s the first of two proposals expected in the legislature that could shut down the agency, which serves as the bus contractor for numerous school districts in Dallas County including Cedar Hill, Irving and Weatherford. State…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The corruption trial of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price got off to a bumpy start Thursday. There was an hour-long delay at the beginning of the trial so the court could replace a juror who was hospitalized. She was eventually dismissed, leaving the jury now with 12 members and three…… MORE
(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
