DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – The city of Dallas revives a big New Year’s Eve downtown event with 15 thousand pounds of fireworks scheduled to explode at Reunion Tower. Dallas Area Rapid Transit is again working with Coors Light, in offering people free rides on any DART transportation mode. Dart spokesman Mark Ball says the free…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Dallas fire officials are investigating the cause of a building collapse on highway 183 southbound just south of Mockingbird Lane. It appears no one was inside the structure, which at last report was indicated to be a restaurant open only during weekdays. No injuries are reported; cause of the collapse is…… MORE
PASADENA, Texas (AP) – Authorities say two workers cleaning a chemical tank at business near Houston died after apparently becoming overcome by fumes. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a tweet Saturday that deputies responded to the plant overnight in Pasadena, located just southeast of Houston. Gonzalez says deputies found two men dead at…… MORE
UPDATE: Authorities now report that nine people were shot (injured). HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say two men were killed and seven others were wounded by gunfire when a group filming a rap music video was “ambushed” near Houston. The Harris County sheriff’s office said Saturday morning that 20-year-old Gonzalo Gonzalez and 22-year-old Jonathan Jimenez died at the…… MORE
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial slur, has died. He was 79. Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before President Clinton…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Flu Surveillance Report provided to the Centers For Disease Control in the last two weeks by health officials in Tarrant County, confirm there has been a second pediatric flu death in Tarrant County. The first flu related pediatric death in the last four years, was reported earlier this month. County…… MORE
McKinney WBAP/KLIF – A Citizens group in McKinney today filed a petition to recall district one Councilman La’Shadion Shemwell. The document contains more than 3,000 signatures. The City Secretary has five days to certify the petition. If certified, Shemwell has five days to resign from the city council or submit to a new election that…… MORE
DALLAS – Dallas Area Rapid Transit is consulting the 13 municipalities it offers services in to ask what parameters might be preferred as it considers digital and other advertising methods. Dallas metro is one of the few larger U S cities or metroplexes in which public transit systems are not generating income via advertising. New…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas police are investigating the city’s 203 homicide of the year today. The murder happened last night in the 3000 block of Falls Drive not far from Cowart Elementary School and Planet Fitness. Officers responded to a complaint of shots fired and fighting around 9 pm Thursday. Upon arrival they discovered the…… MORE
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A federal appeals court has ruled American Airlines workers at Newark’s airport who claim they’ve been shorted on overtime pay can’t sue as a class. The ruling published Tuesday reverses a New Jersey judge’s decision that would have allowed the lawsuit to go forward and include all non-exempt hourly workers employed…… MORE
