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3 Found Dead Inside Burning Carrollton Home

3 Found Dead Inside Burning Carrollton Home

CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF) – Carrollton Police are investigating the deaths of three people found dead inside a home on the city’s north side Saturday afternoon. Carrollton Fire Rescue responded to a report of smoke coming from a house in the 3900 block of Alto Ave. shortly before 4 p.m. Firefighters arrived to find the house on…MORE

Feds Vow Major Aid For Hurricane Ian Victims Amid Rescues

Feds Vow Major Aid For Hurricane Ian Victims Amid Rescues

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) – U.S. officials are vowing to unleash a massive amount of federal aid in response to Hurricane Ian as the death toll rises amid recovery efforts. The monster storm killed at least 68 people, including 61 in Florida. Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses remain without power. Officials warn that…MORE

Feds Vow Major Aid For Hurricane Ian Victims Amid Rescues

Feds Vow Major Aid For Hurricane Ian Victims Amid Rescues

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) – U.S. officials are vowing to unleash a massive amount of federal aid in response to Hurricane Ian as the death toll rises amid recovery efforts. The monster storm killed at least 68 people, including 61 in Florida. Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses remain without power. Officials warn that…MORE

North Texas Man Accused of Murdering 22 Elderly Women Back on Trial Monday

North Texas Man Accused of Murdering 22 Elderly Women Back on Trial Monday

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Accused North Texas serial killer Billy Chemirmir will face his second trial in Dallas County on Monday. He’s charged with capital murder in the death of 87-year-old Mary Brooks, who was found dead on the floor of her condo. Authorities initially believed she died of natural causes but later reconsidered.…MORE

Putin Illegally Annexes Ukraine Land; Kyiv Seeks NATO Entry

Putin Illegally Annexes Ukraine Land; Kyiv Seeks NATO Entry

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to illegally annex parts of Ukraine, while Kyiv has submitted an “accelerated” application to join NATO. At the Kremlin, Putin and the pro-Moscow heads of the four Ukrainian regions inked the treaties in a sharp escalation of the war. The signing came three days…MORE

Ian Makes Landfall Again, This Time in South Carolina

Ian Makes Landfall Again, This Time in South Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Hurricane Ian has made another landfall, this time in South Carolina, after carving a swath of destruction across Florida earlier this week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian’s center came ashore Friday afternoon near Georgetown with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast as a powerful…MORE

Ian Makes Landfall Again, This Time in South Carolina

Ian Makes Landfall Again, This Time in South Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Hurricane Ian has made another landfall, this time in South Carolina, after carving a swath of destruction across Florida earlier this week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian’s center came ashore Friday afternoon near Georgetown with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast as a powerful…MORE

5 Killed, 1 in Custody Following Domestic Dispute in Central Texas

5 Killed, 1 in Custody Following Domestic Dispute in Central Texas

MCGREGOR (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Texas Department of Public Safety said five people were fatally shot in a shocking familial domestic dispute in McGregor, about twenty miles southwest of Waco. The tragedy happened around 7:30 a.m. Thursday at a home in the 900 block of Monroe. An unidentified man killed his wife and her…MORE

Suspect Arrested for Damaging Texas State Capitol Grounds

Suspect Arrested for Damaging Texas State Capitol Grounds

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A damaged perimeter fence, broken glass, a smashed sign and tire tracks marked a path of damage along the east entrance to the Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin on Thursday morning. Pictures posted by local news station KXAN show a state department of public safety officer inspecting the damage, which…MORE

500 Oncor Employees & Contractors Get to Work in Florida in the Wake of Hurricane Ian

500 Oncor Employees & Contractors Get to Work in Florida in the Wake of Hurricane Ian

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – An abundance of Texas resources are aiding in the daunting clean-up and recovery efforts in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian. The Texas A&M Forest service dispatched it’s mobile command post to the Florida on Thursday; and, staged in the region before the storm was some 500 Oncor employees and contractors.…MORE