SEATTLE (AP) – President Joe Biden spent Earth Day in Seattle, where he signed an executive order intended to help restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight. The visit was intended to reassert his environmental credentials when he’s been more focused on lowering gas prices that have risen during the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Earth X 2022 is running through the weekend at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. The expo returns after a three year hiatus amid the COVID pandemic. The event will feature vendors, education, panels, and ore surrounding the importance of the environment. The event is one of several examples of…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Military Department announced on Friday that a Texas Army National Guard Soldier assigned to Operation Lone Star went gone missing along the river during a mission related incident in Eagle Pass. According to the department, the Soldier has not been found. “We are aware of reports of a fatality, although those…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Dallas Police Department homicide detectives made an arrest in the case of a missing Duncanville woman whose body was found in a tarp in a wooded area in south Dallas this week. Clinton Smith is in the Dallas County jail awaiting a bond hearing on charges connected to 54-year-old Juanita…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – A recent alert by the FBI warned that food and agriculture businesses could become a target of ransomware attacks during the industries busiest time of the year in order to inflict maximum damage. The Food and Agriculture Sector is almost entirely under private ownership and is composed of an estimated 2.1 million…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The former Allen City Mayor Pro Tem has pleaded guilty to felony child pornography charges. 57 year old Gary Caplinger will serve up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty, Thursday, to two felony counts of child pornography with the intent to distribute. Caplinger was booked into the Collin County Jail in…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A $300-million Medicare fraud scheme results in nearly a dozen charged in Texas. According the U.S. Justice Department, the fraud involved the founders of Unified Laboratory Services, Spectrum Diagnostic Laboratory, and Reliable Labs for paying kickbacks to medical professionals in return for ordering unnecessary lab tests. Paul Madison and David Michael Lizcano both…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) The statewide gas price average in Texas is $3.77 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is seven cents more than on this day last week and is $1.18 more per gallon compared to this day last year. Of the major metropolitan areas surveyed…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – The man charged in the murder of a Bedford girl in 2017 pleaded guilty on Thursday. According to the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, 21-year-old Jordin Roache pled guilty Thursday to the charge of murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The D.A. said Roache admitted to the murder…… MORE
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in the strategic port of Mariupol, even as he ordered his troops not to storm the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war’s iconic battleground. Russian troops have besieged the southeastern city since the early days of the conflict and largely pulverized it.…… MORE
