PLANO, TX (WBAP/KLIF News) – The North Texas Municipal Water District says an independent study shows the water in Plano is safe, despite widespread complaints about a strong chlorine smell. The district posted results of the independent study to its website — The study shows the amount of disinfectant by-products is well below the…… MORE
Update at 4:10pm: (AP) – Austin’s police chief says package bombs caused both explosions in Texas’ capital city on Monday, making it three this month. Police Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference that the latest bombing injured a 75-year-old Hispanic woman. Manley says investigators believe that attack and one earlier Monday that…… MORE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A Dallas-bound flight was diverted to the Albuquerque International Sunport after smoke filled the aircraft’s cabin. According to KRQE-TV , Southwest flight 3562 took off from Phoenix on Sunday night and was headed for Dallas Love Field Airport. The plane was forced to land in Albuquerque after what might have been…… MORE
DALLAS, TX (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service employee in Dallas. The U.S. Attorney’s office says one person was taken into custody early this morning in relation to the shooting that left 58-year-old Tony Mosby dead. Mosby was shot to death while driving his…… MORE
(AP) Hunstville, Texas – A former Dallas accountant condemned for fatally shooting his two young daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone has been put to death in Texas. John David Battaglia received lethal injection Thursday night for the May 2001 killings of his 9-year-old daughter, Faith, and her 6-year-old sister, Liberty. Battaglia and…… MORE
DALLAS, TX (WBAP/KLIF News) – Several North Texas Congressmen were among the passengers on an Amtrak train headed to a GOP retreat that hit a garbage truck in Greenbriar, West Virginia Wednesday morning Authorities said one person in the truck was killed. An aid confirms House Speaker Paul Ryan was on the train in addition…… MORE
ITALY (WBAP/KLIF News) – One student was injured after being shot at Italy High School Monday morning. Authorities said the victim was a 15-year-old girl and the suspect, a 16-year-old boy, currently in police custody. The girl was transported to Parkland Hospital and her condition is unknown. The shooting occurred just before 8 a.m. and Italy ISD…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The Mayor of Dallas says North Texas has as good a shot as any when it comes to landing Amazon’s second headquarters. Mayor Mike Rawlings told WFAA TV’s “Inside Texas Politics” Dallas-Fort Worth has the financial edge over all of the east coast cities on Amazon’s short list, but that they…… MORE
DALLAS, TX (WBAP/KLIF News) – Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 89 years old today, as DFW commemorates his birthday with events all across North Texas. The Dallas MLK Jr. Day Parade steps off at 10am from MLK Blvd. at Holmes St., ending at Fair Park. The event also includes a community fair and…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) –The Richardson Police Department received a plaque from community members today as gratitude for how they’ve handled the Sherin Mathews investigation. Mathews went missing last fall, and her body was found weeks later in a culvert a short distance away from her home. “We wanted to recognize our police department for their compassion…… MORE
