WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A Dallas-area woman at the center of a high-profile abortion debate is among North Texans will attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night. Kate Cox drew national attention in December when she sued Texas seeking an emergency abortion while twenty weeks pregnant. A district court…… MORE
HEMPHILL COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The first lawsuit in connection to the deadly Smokehouse Creek Fire in the panhandle has been filed. Melanie Mcquiddy of Hemphill County filed the lawsuit on Friday. She’s suing the Southwestern Public Service Company after her home near Canadian burned down, alleging the over 1 million acre fire was…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fort Worth police are reassuring the public that the popular West 7th District is safe after a the man wanted for a deadly shooting over the weekend turned himself in Monday. 29-year-old Karlove Palmer is in the Tarrant County Jail on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of…… MORE
BORGER (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Officials with the City of Borger said it’s in need of clean up materials such as shovels, rakes, gloves and heavy duty trash bags as it continues to clean up areas ravaged by the ongoing wildfires in the panhandle. In a Facebook post on Sunday; the city said its immediate…… MORE
PANHANDLE (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A second death has been reported as a result of the wildfires that continue to scorch the Texas panhandle. The family of Cindy Owen said she died on Thursday after being caught in a wildfire near Pampa. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the truck driver got out of…… MORE
STINNETT (WBAP/KLIF News ) – What is now the largest wildfire in Texas history has scorched over 1 million acres in the Texas panhandle since it began Monday and claimed the life of at least one victim. The family of 83-year-old Joyce Blankenship said she died at her house in Stinnett. The Smokehouse Creek fire…… MORE
PANHANDLE (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fast moving wildfires continue to spread in the Texas panhandle, prompting evacuation orders and the shutting down of a nuclear facility Tuesday afternoon. Some residents in the rural towns of Canadian, Pampa and others were told to leave as neighborhoods and livestock were threatened. Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster…… MORE
MESQUITE (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Mesquite Police Department on Tuesday released body camera footage and the 911 calls from the officer-involved shooting at a local academy earlier this month. Officers responded to the Pioneer Technology and Art Academy on February 19, after a school administrator said 16-year-old student brought a gun on campus. In…… MORE
LIVINGSTON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – There’s been an arrest in connection to a Southeast Texas Amber Alert as the search for 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham intensifies. Her family reported Audrii missing after she didn’t get off the bus at the end of the day last Thursday in Livingston, about 74 miles northeast of Houston. Investigators learned…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) -Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson addressed reports surrounding his recent divorce. In a statement on Thursday, the mayor confirmed that he and his wife of 16 years are going through a divorce, but he said that he will keep details about the proceedings private. Johnson’s statement was issued in response to reports…… MORE
