(WBAP/KLIF) — The City of Fort Worth has come to the aid of businesses suffering economic loss after the Sandman Signature Hotel explosion, earlier this year. Downtown businesses adversely affected by January’s hotel natural gas blast are now being offered financial help from the city. Ori Fernandez is the city’s Assistant Economic Director and says…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is temporarily blocking a Texas law that allows the state to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally. The order late Tuesday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed a March 20 hearing by a three-judge panel of the court. It’s just the latest move…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The trial for the North Texas doctor accused of injecting heart-stopping medication into patient’s IV bags starts next Monday. One person died and eleven others suffered cardiac emergencies after receiving the tainted bags. Surveillance video captured 60-year-old anesthesiologist Doctor Raynaldo Ortiz allegedly placing the IV bags into a warmer at…… MORE
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chose Nicole Shanahan on Tuesday to be his vice presidential pick as he mounts an independent White House bid that has spooked national Democrats. Shanahan is a California lawyer and philanthropist who’s never held elected office. Shanahan leads Bia-Echo Foundation, an organization she founded to direct money…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Dallas Fire-Rescue is responding to a fire at a church near Dallas Love Field this (Tuesday) afternoon. The first call about the fire at Denton Drive at Bombay Avenue occurred around 1:35 p.m., Tuesday. Motorists could see heavy smoke and flames from miles around Love Field, as crews battled the blaze. No further…… MORE
HOUSTON – (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott announces Texas is stepping back into a leading role of space exploration; creating the new “Texas Space Commission”. Abbott says Texas will be the launchpad for Mars…in his words, “As we look to the future of space, those who reach for the stars, do so from the Lone…… MORE
HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton avoided an April 15 trial in his 9-year-old securities fraud case and has entered an 18-month pretrial agreement with the State of Texas. He’s accused of defrauding investors in the Mckinney tech company Severgy by not disclosing that he was being paid to promote the…… MORE
UPDATE: (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Rescuers are still searching for at least six people after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland just before 2 a.m. Tuesday. Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the crew on the Singaporean cargo ship, the Dali, issued a mayday call moments before it collided with the bridge. The…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Two law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press that two properties belonging to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation. The officials say the Monday searches were…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S. Abortion opponents want the high court in arguments Tuesday to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to a medication called mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions last year.…… MORE
