Ft. Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – Hundreds of people lined the streets of Fort Worth and attended a rally on Sundance Square Plaza Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Day. “A lot of these schools, they’re not teaching enough about what went on back then,” one parent said while she sat with her kids along…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The North Texas theater community is raising money to help a director who was attacked over the weekend.… MORE
NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – About 4,000 residents were without power Monday morning and dozens of homes were damaged after severe weather tore through parts of North Texas Sunday night. A tornado touched down near the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport. One man didn’t want to be caught out in the open and waited out the storm under the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) — A Dallas County Judge is taking a different approach to her case work. Judge Shequitta Kelly is expediting her domestic violence cases by getting more involved in the pre-court process. Last June, Kelly started encouraging prosecutors to release evidence to attorneys sooner and lawyers to plea bargain or go to court earlier. Her…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) Anticipation will be tense this Sunday with the Cowboys facing off against the Packers again this season, but this time in their first playoff game. One Dallas man calls himself a Cowboys fan, but actually used to play for Green Bay. Dr. John Michels is a physician now at Interventional Spine and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas police said the suspect in the vandalism of the Cathedral of Hope Church was caught on camera. It happened around 11 p.m. on January 4th. The video shows a black man, about 40 years old with a goatee, spray painting the graffiti on the church’s Interface Peace chapel. The graffiti included…… MORE
HORATIO (WBAP/KLIF News) – More than 100 dogs that had been rescued from an animal shelter in Fort Worth last year were found abandoned and living in squalid conditions in a southwest Arkansas home. Investigators said eight dogs were found shot to death outside the home in Horatio, about 160 miles west of Little Rock, last month.…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE (AP) – Texas has executed inmate Christopher Wilkins for 2005 double slaying; first US execution of 2017. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block the scheduled execution of Wilkins who killed two men in Fort Worth after one of them mocked him for falling for a fake drug deal. The court’s ruling on appeals…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF News) – Event planners from across the country gathered outside the Texas Capitol Wednesday to call on state lawmakers to reject Senate Bill 6. The measure would require people in parks, schools and government buildings to use the bathroom of their physical gender. “We’ve seen what happens across the United States, and I…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Fort Worth man who once told jurors that the death penalty was “no big deal” is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. It will be the nation’s first execution of 2017. Christopher Wilkins was convicted of murdering Willie Freeman and Mike Silva in Fort Worth in 2005, after Freeman sold him…… MORE
