Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

July Fourth Fireworks Start Dozens Of Fires

July Fourth Fireworks Start Dozens Of Fires

Fort Worth/Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth’s fireworks show had to be canceled Monday night a few minutes after it began. The city had been billing the show on Panther Island Pavillion as the largest in north Texas. However, fires broke out along the Trinity River banks as soon as hot debris from the exploding fireworks…MORE

July Fourth Fireworks Start Dozens Of Fires

July Fourth Fireworks Start Dozens Of Fires

Fort Worth/Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth’s fireworks show had to be canceled Monday night a few minutes after it began. The city had been billing the show on Panther Island Pavillion as the largest in north Texas. However, fires broke out along the Trinity River banks as soon as hot debris from the exploding fireworks…MORE

Person Of Interest in Highland Park Parade Shooting Is In Custody

Person Of Interest in Highland Park Parade Shooting Is In Custody

CHICAGO (AP; Fox Network) — Authorities have taken the “person of interest” – Robert “Bobby” Crimo III into custody in connection with the Highland park Illinois parade shooting earlier today. 6 people were killed and over two dozen were reportedly injured. Hundreds of police had been going door to door looking for Crimo. A citizen…MORE

Woman Shot For Flashing Her High Beams

Woman Shot For Flashing Her High Beams

Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth police are looking for a suspect who they say shot a woman in the face while she was driving westbound on King’s Oak Lane near North Beach early Monday morning.The victim told told officers she flashed her high beams at a car traveling toward her as a sign for…MORE

Murder Suspect Returned To Texas

Murder Suspect Returned To Texas

Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – An Austin woman who’s accused of murdering bicycle racer Anna Wilson in mid May has been returned to Texas from Costa Rica. Kaitlin Armstrong fled the country after the killing of Wilson. She was found in a Costa Rican beachfront hostel June 29th. Costa Rica returned her to Texas July 2, and…MORE

Grass Fires Erupt In North And South Texas

Grass Fires Erupt In North And South Texas

DeSoto (WBAP/KLIF) – A fast moving grass fire on the western edge of DeSoto scorched about 250 acres before it was brought under control Sunday afternoon. The wind driven blaze was moving west toward homes in neighboring Cedar Hill for a while, and many residents evacuated, but in the end DeSoto firefighters managed to bring…MORE

Two Teenage Girls Missing In Central Texas

Two Teenage Girls Missing In Central Texas

McGregor (WBAP/KLIF) – The authorities in the town of McGregor, Texas west of Waco, have issued an amber alert for two young teenage girls. They say 14 year old Emilee Solomon and 14 year old Aysha Cross may have been abducted by a person or persons unknown. Emilee and Aysha have been missing since Tuesday.…MORE

17-Year-Old Girl at Center of Amber Alert is Found Safe

17-Year-Old Girl at Center of Amber Alert is Found Safe

GARLAND, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – 17-year-old Yadhira Medina was found safe after an Amber Alert was issued for her Sunday morning. Authorities believe Medina was kidnapped by 20-year-old David Maldonado, who is still at large. Police have issued a warrant for Maldonado who was allegedly seen dragging Medina into a pickup truck Saturday evening. Police confirmed…MORE

Garland Police Are Looking For A Kidnapped Girl

Garland Police Are Looking For A Kidnapped Girl

Garland, (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Garland are calling for help to find a 17 year old girl who’s believed to have been kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend Saturday night. Witnesses say they saw Yadhira Medina being dragged against her will into a White Ford or GM pickup truck with a tan or silver trim. Witnesses identified…MORE

The Texas Supreme Court Issued An Important Abortion Ruling Friday Night

The Texas Supreme Court Issued An Important Abortion Ruling Friday Night

Austin (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court blocked a lower court order late Friday night that said clinics could continue performing abortions, just days after some doctors had resumed seeing patients after the fall of Roe v. Wade. It was not immediately clear whether Texas clinics that had resumed seeing patients this week would halt…MORE