MANSIFIELD – WBAP/KLIF – Methodist Hospital of Mansfield is celebrating its first birth of the New Year. A little girl named Emma Leigh Petermeier chose the time of 12:01 AM to push into the New Year, weighing in at 6 pounds, 12 ounces. The new parents received a new baby book to help Emma Leigh…… MORE
DENTON (WBAP/KLIF) – The Denton Police Department is investigating a deadly New Year’s Eve shooting. According to Denton PD, dispatch received a call around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday reporting a shooting at 905 Cleveland Street. When Officers arrived they found a man lying on the ground inside the apartment complex gated parking lot with a gunshot…… MORE
Plano, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A freak accident claimed the life of a man in Plano on New Year’s Eve. Party-goers reportedly discovered the 64-year old victim lying in the middle of the street outside a home on Williams Way. When police arrived, they initially thought the man had been shot due to his extensive head…… MORE
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — With the future of coach Jason Garrett in limbo, the Dallas Cowboys have other reasons to believe there will be plenty of change in 2020 — 23 of them, to be exact. The Cowboys have 23 unrestricted free agents-to-be, headlined by quarterback Dak Prescott and No. 1 receiver Amari Cooper, after…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Healthcare and law enforcement experts at Parkland Health & Hospital System are urging North Texas to have a plan before celebrating this New Years Holiday. “This time of the year there are multiple factors that come into play when you’re out on the highways,” said Shelli Stephens-Stidham, Director of the Injury Prevention…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – The man who fatally shot two people at a North Texas church before a congregant shot and killed him was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trail in 2012. Keith Thomas Kinnunen was eventually deemed competent for trial on those charges and others, but the charges were reduced to misdemeanors to which he…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-supported militiamen shows that President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has not crippled its ability to strike at American interests. Trump says Iran will be held “fully responsible.” It’s not clear whether that might mean military retaliation. The breach of…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – President Donald Trump is weighing in on this week’s church shooting in White Settlement. According to Police, the gunman was shot and killed by an armed parishioner within seconds of killing two church members during a Sunday service inside West Freeway Church of Christ. The President took to Twitter on the topic late Monday…… MORE
GOLIAD, Texas (AP) – Benny Martinez, a Mexican American civil rights leader who helped organize the historic Latino gala with President John F. Kennedy, has died at 85. His daughter Loretta Martinez Williams said Martinez died Sunday of natural causes. Born in Goliad, Martinez served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He returned…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF – A tragic discovery at a motel in south Dallas where the body of a 3-week old infant was found inside a cooler. Dallas child abuse detectives had been called by Children’s Protective Services over the weekend to the motel on South Lancaster to do a welfare check; the baby was found in…… MORE
