UPDATE: 6:17AM 3/11/22 Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – An explosion and subsequent fire at a home near White Rock Lake in Dallas overnight caused significant damage to a home on San Leandro Drive near Lakeland Drive. Dallas Fire Rescue spokesperson Jason Evans says the home suffered a partial roof collapse and that people are known to be…… MORE
Addison, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A little bit of a reprieve at the gas pump in the Addison area this morning. Motorists have been feeling the pain at the pump for several weeks amid supply chain shortages. That pain worsened almost immediately after President Biden banned Russian oil imports on Tuesday. Gas at the RaceRrac on…… MORE
CHICAGO (AP) – Jussie Smollett has decided not to make a statement at his sentencing hearing for lying to police in a racist and homophobic attack that he staged himself. Smollett said he agreed Thursday with his attorney’s advice to remain quiet. Special prosecutor Dan Webb is seeking incarceration for Smollett. Webb also sought $130,000…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Dallas civil rights attorney Lee Merritt has suspended his campaign for Texas attorney general. Merritt’s Thursday announcement sets up a May runoff between the Democratic primary’s top vote-getter, Rochelle Garza, and former Galveston mayor Joe Jaworski. Merritt acknowledged during a news conference in Houston that as a ballot recount continues from last…… MORE
A Dallas Kimball high school basketball player was arrested and a student trainer was injured after a player’s gun discharged on the team bus after a practice in San Antonio on Wednesday night. 18-year-old Kyron Henderson faces with two felony gun charges. The team was preparing for the state tournament and was heading to dinner…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- A North Texas construction company is breaking the stigma on women in the industry. The commercial masonry industry is a $31 billion market according to IBISWorld, a leading market research company. Currently there are more than 225,000 people employed in commercial masonry across the United States but women only represent approximately 1.1% of…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson introduced Bart Bevers, the city’s first-ever Inspector General, on Thursday at Dallas City Hall. According to Mayor Johnson, the Office of Inspector General will monitor, investigate, and prosecute potential ethics violations . The office was established as part of the ethics reforms proposed by the mayor and passed…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The statewide gas price average in Texas is $4.00 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. That price is 62 cents more than from this day last week and is $1.45 more per gallon compared to this day last year. Of the major metropolitan…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Another winter snap is headed for North Texas Friday night and the City of Dallas wants to make sure its most vulnerable citizens have a place to stay warm. Below freezing temperatures and wintry precipitation will blanket the region until Saturday morning. The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library downtown at 1515…… MORE
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three people brought condemnation down on Moscow on Thursday, with Ukrainian and Western officials branding it a war crime, while the highest-level talks yet yielded no progress in stopping the fighting. Emergency workers renewed efforts to get food and medical supplies…… MORE
