Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Major League Baseball’s New Pitch Clock Affects Beer Sales

Major League Baseball’s New Pitch Clock Affects Beer Sales

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Rangers are one of four major league baseball teams that have extended alcohol sales at their home games. The first days of the new baseball season have found the games moving faster because of the new pitch clock. Fans seem to like it, with one notable exception. As the game…MORE

Alert DPS Trooper Makes Big Drug Bust

Alert DPS Trooper Makes Big Drug Bust

Mission (WBAP/KLIF) – Operation Lone Star along the Mexican border has made its largest drug bust so far. A DPS trooper making a traffic stop in the border town of Mission found 14 pounds of potentially lethal fentanyl hidden in a black, Cadillac SUV. The highly dangerous drug was contained in five tape-wrapped bundles. Drug…MORE

National Retailer to Close Doors in DFW

National Retailer to Close Doors in DFW

(WBAP/KLIF) — One major DFW retailer is closing its doors for good. The Grapevine tornado in December of last year destroyed the roof of the local Sam’s Club, throwing air conditioning units across the parking lot, overturning a semi, and wrapping cart returns around trees. That same storm damaged Grapevine Mills Mall and a city…MORE

Tom Thumb Coming to South Dallas’ RedBird

Tom Thumb Coming to South Dallas’ RedBird

(WBAP/KLIF) — Residents of South Dallas are getting something they haven’t had in 20 years. The Dallas City Council announced that a Tom Thumb grocery store is coming to Redbird in 2025. There’s usually not a lot of buzz about a new grocery store opening in DFW, however announcement of a one in South Dallas…MORE

Governor Abbott Announces Record Seizure of  Fentanyl in Mission

Governor Abbott Announces Record Seizure of Fentanyl in Mission

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott, on Wednesday, announced that the Texas Department of Public Safety seized over 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl, or about 14 pounds, during a single Operation Lone Star traffic stop in Mission. This seizure marks one of the largest single fentanyl seizures by OLS to date. “Fentanyl is…MORE

Second Expelled Tennessee Lawmaker Reinstated

Second Expelled Tennessee Lawmaker Reinstated

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight. Hundreds of supporters marched Justin Pearson through Memphis…MORE

Fort Worth Police: Missing 11-Year-Old Girl Found

Fort Worth Police: Missing 11-Year-Old Girl Found

UPDATE: Fort Worth Police announced just before 9:30 Wednesday morning that 11-year-old Keyannie Banks has been found safe. No other details have been released. FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Fort Worth Police Department is searching an 11-year-old girl who vanished Tuesday night. Keyannie Banks was last seen at 76133 Kingswood Circle just west…MORE

Dire Warning about the Narcan Resistant Fentanyl Cocktail ‘Tranq Dope’ [LISTEN]

Dire Warning about the Narcan Resistant Fentanyl Cocktail ‘Tranq Dope’ [LISTEN]

The warning comes weeks after the Drug Enforcement Administration said that “tranq’ a mix of animal tranquilizer and fentanyl – is making fentanyl, the most dangerous drug threat our country has ever faced, even deadlier.” Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The White House is issuing an unprecedented warning about xylazine, the veterinary tranquilizer increasingly found in the illicit…MORE

Denton Man Gets 2 Years in Federal Prison for Threatening Jewish Organization

Denton Man Gets 2 Years in Federal Prison for Threatening Jewish Organization

NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A judge in the Eastern District of Texas sentenced a Denton man to two years in federal prison this week for sending threatening messages to the Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish civil rights organization. 34-year-old Anthony Joseph Hammer pleaded guilty on May 3, 2022 to interstate communication of…MORE