MANSFIELD (WBAP/KLIF) – The Mansfield city council has “thawed” on the ideal of spending 12 million dollars on a proposed indoor ice rink. Last week, council members initially gave the green light for the 82,000 square foot facility at the corner of Highway 287 and Broad street. But, they changed their minds over growing concerns…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Case workers have been assigned to begin steps to try and clear out Dallas’ largest homeless encampment. Surveys have shown more than 300-people reside in the area below Interstate 45 near Hickory street on any given night. Because of drug use and violence, the city has ordered the area cleared out by…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Some heated words between former Dallas City Councilman Dwaine Caraway and Dallas County Commissioner during a radio interview today. The fight started during a commercial break at a local gospel radio station. Price, Caraway and two other candidates for Price’s County Commission seat were being interviewed about their individual campaigns. The…… MORE
GARLAND (WBAP/KLIF) – A woman is facing intoxication manslaughter charges after Garland police say she struck and killed a person standing by a disabled vehicle on the shoulder of LBJ Freeway. 53-year-old Rhonda Anderson of Mesquite was jailed under a $100,000 dollar bond. Police say she was drunk when she drove off the freeway near…… MORE
EULESS (WBAP/KLIF) – Ground crews at Southwest Airlines have narrowly approved a new contract. It comes after almost five years of negotiations. Members of the Transport Workers Union Local 555 okayed the deal by a 50.4 to 49.6 margin, only a 75 vote difference. The new deal includes a 20-percent pay raise over the life…… MORE
GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Grapevine-Colleyville School District Board of Trustees have voted to call a bond election on Saturday, May 7th. The proposed package totals nearly $249 million and includes 1,300 projects at every campus in the district. Superintendent Robin Ryan explained some of the proposed improvements in a YouTube video. “The recommended projects…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Ethan Couch will be transferred from juvenile court to the adult system by his 19th birthday in April. A judge in Tarrant County made the ruling Friday. Couch was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in a drunken-driving crash that killed four people. There could be new conditions to the teen’s…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Ethan Couch heads before a judge in Tarrant County on Friday. The judge will decide whether to move Couch from the juvenile system to adult court. Without change, his probation for killing four people in a drunk driving crash would come to an end on his 19th birthday in April.…… MORE
BEDFORD (WBAP/KLIF) – A 24-year-old Bedford man is jailed, accused of causing the death of his girlfriend’s infant daughter. Kyle Ray Gooch is being held under a $50,000 bond charged with injury to a child. The little girl’s mother told police she left the baby with Gooch while she went to work. When she returned…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – An Amber Alert originating out of Oklahoma has been extended into Texas. Law enforcement officers are looking for 8-year-old Mabel Lopez. The suspect is Arcenio De Jesus and they may be in a dark grey 2005 Ford Explorer with Oklahoma plates: 689-LHD. Mabel is 4′ 5″ weighing 50 pounds with brown eyes and…… MORE
