Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Gas Prices in NTX Reach New Record High

Gas Prices in NTX Reach New Record High

DFW (WBAP/KLIF)- DFW hit a new milestone today, but it’s not one that’ll make you smile as gas prices reached a new record high at $4.78 a gallon for regular unleaded. Daniel Armbruster with AAA-Texas that prices will fluctuate across the metroplex as indicted by the cover photo of $4.85 for regular unleaded which was…MORE

Over a Dozen DPS Troopers Stood Inside a Uvalde School During Shooting Massacre

Over a Dozen DPS Troopers Stood Inside a Uvalde School During Shooting Massacre

San Antonio (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas state lawmaker has revealed more details about about the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school massacre. The San Antonio Express-News reported Monday that State Senator Roland Gutierrez was told by Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw that up to 13 DPS troopers were in the hallway…MORE

Aaron Dean Trial Delayed, Again

Aaron Dean Trial Delayed, Again

Ft. Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The murder trial of former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean will not take place next week as scheduled. The trial has been delayed again after his attorneys filed a motion asking for a new judge because, according to them, presiding Judge David Hagerman has become increasingly hostile toward them. The…MORE

Texas House Speaker Submits Proposals on School Safety

Texas House Speaker Submits Proposals on School Safety

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, on Monday, announced proposals surrounding school safety that lawmakers can begin to address this summer. “I’m confident that [lawmakers] can work together on these proposals and more over the summer and throughout the 88th legislative session that begins in January,” Tweeted Speaker Phelan. “We must…MORE

January 6 Witness: Trump ‘Detached from Reality’ over Election

January 6 Witness: Trump ‘Detached from Reality’ over Election

WASHINGTON (AP) – Former President Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were systematically dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. But the defeated president was becoming “detached from reality” clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power. That’s the…MORE

January 6 Witness: Trump ‘Detached from Reality’ over Election

January 6 Witness: Trump ‘Detached from Reality’ over Election

WASHINGTON (AP) – Former President Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were systematically dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. But the defeated president was becoming “detached from reality” clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power. That’s the…MORE

U.S. Department of Education Delivers $1.5 Million to Support Uvalde Schools  

U.S. Department of Education Delivers $1.5 Million to Support Uvalde Schools  

(WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Department of Education announced funding for the Uvalde community in the wake of last month’s massacre at Robb Elementary School. The department announced Monday that it is disbursing a $1.5 million School Emergency Response to Violence grant to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District . Project SERV funds are authorized under the…MORE

Errol Spence Jr. Pleads Guilty to DWI, Uses Platform to Discourage Drunk Driving

Errol Spence Jr. Pleads Guilty to DWI, Uses Platform to Discourage Drunk Driving

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Famed professional boxer Errol Spence Junior is taking accountability for his 2019 drunk driving crash. According to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, the 32-year-old pleaded guilty and was convicted in Dallas County Court of Criminal Appeals No. 2 of Driving While Intoxicated in connection to a 2019 single-vehicle crash that sent him…MORE

Texas Patriot Front Leader Among those Arrested Near Idaho Pride Event

Texas Patriot Front Leader Among those Arrested Near Idaho Pride Event

Patriot Front is a white supremacist neo-Nazi group whose members perceive Black Americans, Jews and LGBTQ people as enemies. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (WBAP/KLIF) – After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern Idaho pride event, including one identified as its founder, LGBTQ advocates said Sunday that…MORE