PLANO (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Lightning from the severe storms that rolled through North Texas Monday night may have sparked a house fire in Plano, but officials have not confirmed it. Plano Fire Rescue said flames tore through a house on Crystal Falls Drive in the Kings Ridge development between 8 and 9 p.m. Witnesses…… MORE
Update at 3:00pm: The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has placed portions of North Texas under two different weather watches. A Tornado Watch is in effect north and west of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex including Denton and Wise counties until 9:00pm Monday. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for areas south and west…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is temporarily blocking a Texas law that allows the state to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally. The order late Tuesday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed a March 20 hearing by a three-judge panel of the court. It’s just the latest move…… MORE
HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton avoided an April 15 trial in his 9-year-old securities fraud case and has entered an 18-month pretrial agreement with the State of Texas. He’s accused of defrauding investors in the Mckinney tech company Severgy by not disclosing that he was being paid to promote the…… MORE
UPDATE: (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Rescuers are still searching for at least six people after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland just before 2 a.m. Tuesday. Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the crew on the Singaporean cargo ship, the Dali, issued a mayday call moments before it collided with the bridge. The…… MORE
Arlington, VA (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Boeing President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun will be stepping down at the end of the year. The embattled company is under pressure from airlines and regulators amid increasing calls for major changes due to a number of quality and manufacturing flaws on its planes. In a letter…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – A baby gorilla born in a historic emergency C-section at the Fort Worth Zoo will be available to see this week only ahead of a transfer to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Jameela was not bonded with her mother, and zookeepers think that’s because hormones play a vital part in mother and…… MORE
The Federal Reserve’s updated policy released today indicates Fed officials maintain their forecast of three rate cuts in 2024. The Fed, also keeping its benchmark rate within the 5.25% to 5.5% range. The message remains the same as for some time; interest rates remain stationary, but rate cuts are planned before this year’s end. Inflation…… MORE
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled with an administrative stay for now blocking the state of Texas from enforcing it’s controversial senate bill four in Texas to take effect. It would allow police officers to make arrests of anyone suspected of entering the country illegally, and allow state judges to order…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has turned his State of the Union speech into an animated argument for a second term as he laces into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad. Biden delivered broadsides Thursday at “my predecessor” without mentioning Trump by name,…… MORE
