Silver Spring, MD (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill. Thursday’s approval of the oral contraceptive Opill will allow consumers to purchase a birth control pill without a prescription in the U.S. The tablet only contains progestin and is taken once daily. It can be…… MORE
Euless, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A gas leak in Euless forced the evacuation of over two dozen homes overnight. Euless Fire Assistant Chief Mark Williams says the call came in around 1 a.m. about the rupture of a 6-inch high pressure line at South Main Street and South Pipeline. Williams says the neighborhood at the corner…… MORE
WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Department of Justice is appealing the 18-year prison sentence handed down to Oath Keepers founder and Granbury native Stewart Rhodes for his role in the Jan 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. In the Wednesday filing, federal prosecutors argued that the sentence handed down by U.S. District Court…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – A hometown airline will be a huge beneficiary of a proposed expansion at a Southeast Texas airport. A planned $450M expansion at Houston Hobby’s west concourse would add seven new gates, with six of them designated for Dallas-based Southwest Airlines. While work to be done to finalize the plan and to get…… MORE
Heat Advisory URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 222 PM CDT Thu Jul 13 2023 Montague-Cooke-Grayson-Fannin-Lamar-Young-Jack-Wise-Denton-Collin-Hunt-Delta-Hopkins-Stephens-Palo Pinto-Parker-Tarrant-Dallas-Rockwall-Kaufman-Van Zandt-Rains-Eastland-Erath-Hood-Somervell-Johnson-Ellis-Henderson-Comanche-Mills-Hamilton-Bosque-Hill-Navarro-Freestone-Anderson-Lampasas-Coryell-Bell-McLennan-Falls-Limestone-Leon-Milam-Robertson-Including the cities of Bowie, Nocona, Gainesville, Sherman,Denison, Bonham, Paris, Graham, Olney, Jacksboro, Decatur, Bridgeport, Carrollton, Denton, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Plano, McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Greenville, Commerce, Cooper, Sulphur Springs, Breckenridge, Mineral Wells, Weatherford, Briar,…… MORE
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The United States and other major industrialized nations are pledging long-term security assistance for Ukraine as it continues to fight Russia’s invasion. At the annual NATO summit, G7 countries began laying the groundwork for member nations to negotiate individual security agreements with Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the commitments will…… MORE
The Texas Senate has unanimously passed an $18 Billion property tax relief bill.Highlights of the bill include spending over $12 Billion on reducing the school property tax rate and a $100,000 Homestead Exemption. Senator Paul Bennencourt, who authored the bill, says it was made possible because of bipartisan supportThe bill now moves to the Texas…… MORE
DESOTO (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Desoto police are asking for help in catching the driver who fatally hit a man who was walking along I-35 near Wintergreen Road this week. A passerby called 911 after seeing a body laying on the ground around 4 a.m. on Tuesday. A preliminary investigation revealed the victim may have…… MORE
Prosper, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Prosper arrested three people accused in a string of car burglaries over the last several months. The trio is suspected in eight incidents in the Villages of Legacy and Whitley Place neighborhoods in Prosper dating back to April. The department says that early Tuesday a Flock System Alert indicated…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — After two years of painfully high prices, inflation in the United States has reached its lowest point in more than two years — 3% in June compared with 12 months earlier — a sign that the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes have steadily slowed price increases across the economy. The inflation figure…… MORE
