PLANO – Golf ball sized hail pelted Denton and Collin Counties this week, and many homeowners may not even know their roofs are damaged. Mark Hanna with the Insurance Council of Texas says, “The storm damage appears to have been on a line that included Plano, Wylie and Sachse.” Estimated insured losses from this week’s…… MORE
ANNA (WBAP/KLIF) – A warning for parents across North Texas. Police have released a sketch of a middle-aged man accused of approaching children in Anna, Van Alstyne, Melissa, Tom Bean and Princeton. In at least four cases, children have told investigators the suspect tried to lure them into his vehicle. He offered candy or a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – After 18-months of renovation the monorail at the Dallas zoo is up and running again. Over the past 25-years the monorail had been plagued by electrical issues. It was shutdown in 2014 after a number of passengers were stranded. The zoo spent three million dollars to update electrical and mechanical parts, and…… MORE
FARMERS BRANCH (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Farmers Branch Police Officer charged in the shooting death of a teenager has resigned from the department. Addison Police say Ken Johnson intentionally shot 16-year-old Jose Cruz while Johnson was off-duty. Johnson has claimed he was chasing after Cruz and another teen after he caught them breaking into his…… MORE
LUBBOCK – Texas Tech University has canceled its summer and fall study abroad programs in Belgium in the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. Four Texas Tech students were in Brussels at the time of the attacks according to Tibor Nagy, Tech’s vice provost for international affairs. “The students are doing a semester abroad in Spain,…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – Residents across a wide swath of North Texas are out again surveying damage from storms. Rain, gusty winds, hail and the threat of tornadoes swept from west to east Wednesday night. The slow moving system tracked across Colleyville, Grapevine, Coppell, Carrollton and Plano. It started a little before 10 o’clock. At one…… MORE
FORT WORTH – A Benbrook mother accused of killing her two young daughters made her first court appearance to enter a not guilty plea and say that she cannot afford an attorney. Sofya Tsygankova’s bail was set at $2 million dollars. She’s being held in the Tarrant County Jail’s medical housing unit after trying to…… MORE
BRUSSELS (WBAP/KLIF News) A Brussels woman is choosing to stay home, even as authorities announce the lock-down is over. KLIF Morning News managed to get a hold of Irish Jinger, a web radio host, through Facebook’s live audio call feature. Jinger says the mood in her neighborhood has changed drastically in just 24 hours and that the public…… MORE
(CNN) – One person has been arrested after the bloody terrorist attacks in Belgium, state broadcaster RTBF reported Wednesday, though it wasn’t immediately clear if this means authorities have the man they’ve been looking for. The unnamed person was taken into custody in Anderlecht, one of the districts in the capital region of Brussels. Brussels is…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The number of homeless people living in the Dallas “Metro” area continues to rise. More than 3,900 men and women admitted to being homeless in the latest survey, which was taken last month. That’s a 24-percent increase compared to a year ago. Of that number, more than 700 live on the streets.…… MORE
