Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A young boy was run down and killed by a hit and run driver Saturday afternoon in south Dallas. 12 year old Ricky Tave was one of a group of boys collecting donations for their youth baseball team at Ledbetter Drive and Vista Wood Boulevard. He stepped into the street, and was…… MORE
FORT WORTH – It’s been a few weeks delayed with constant cold and cool fronts moving into North Texas, bringing violent winds and torrential rainfall, but the terrible Texas heat is finally with us. National Weather Service meteorologist Patricia Sanchez says though we’ve been feeling on and off heat index values in excess of 100F…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Researchers with the Plain View Project identified nearly 200 Dallas Police Officers for allegedly posting hundreds of bigoted or violent posts on social media. The project research lead to a preliminary Internal Affairs investigation. According to a DPD blog, the PVP identified 170 former and current officers who they deemed to have…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Garland Police & Fire, responded to a gas leak just after 5:30 Saturday morning, on North Garland Road. Officials report hearing the sound of gas coming from a regulator station, in front of one of the businesses, when they arrived. Police believed that several test points were intentionally damaged. Officers later…… MORE
PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) – Police and firefighters are investigation an explosion at a Florida shopping plaza that injured multiple people. The explosion happened Saturday morning at a shopping center in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County. The blast sent large pieces of debris about 100 yards (about 91 meters) across the street. The…… MORE
Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – The Mesquite Police Department seeks the public’s assistance in identifying two armed robbery suspects. On 07/03/2019 at approximately 6:24 p.m., Officers were dispatched to a business located in the 1100 block of North Town East Blvd in reference to a robbery in progress. The two pictured male subjects entered the store and…… MORE
Lufkin (WBAP/KLIF) – A video that went viral on social media within the last week showed a person in what turned out to be a Lufkin Walmart opening a carton of Blue Bell ice cream, licking it, then putting it back in the store freezer. Lufkin Police say she turned out to be a teenaged…… MORE
UPDATE: 07.06.2019 3:01 pm – Earthquake again revised in magnitude to 7.1 on the Richter scale. Fires from gas line breaks and leaks are being tapped, first responders are going door to door searching for people who may injured and require help, and some homes have been knocked off foundations. While damage is limited compared…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- AAA Texas tells drivers to drive safe and pack their patience for holiday traffic this weekend. Daniel Armbruster with AAA says a record number of people will be traveling. From Wednesday to Sunday they estimate 3.5 million travelers on Texas highways. He reminds drivers to give yourself extra time when traveling home Sunday,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Thousands are expected to honor the Dallas officers killed in the July 2016 ambush with the annual Run for the Blue event Saturday morning. The annual event started after the July 7th, 2016 ambush in Downtown Dallas that resulted in the loss of four Dallas police officers and one DART officer. Donations…… MORE
