Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Mother Pleads Guilty in Death of 2-Year-Old Daughter

Mother Pleads Guilty in Death of 2-Year-Old Daughter

(WBAP/KLIF) — The mother of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a Houston bayou two years ago has pleaded guilty for her role in the child’s death. Court records show 22-year-old Sahara Ervin pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence, a human corpse, during a court hearing this week. Maliyah Bass had been playing…MORE

Texas Abortion Clinics Employ New Lawsuit Strategy

Texas Abortion Clinics Employ New Lawsuit Strategy

(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas abortions clinics are plowing ahead with a more narrow challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion law. The Texas law bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks. However, an appeals court in New Orleans didn’t immediately decide, Friday, where to send the case next in a procedural…MORE

Mother Locks Son In Trunk for COVID Isolation

Mother Locks Son In Trunk for COVID Isolation

(WBAP/KLIF) — A Houston mother is facing charges for placing her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car to isolate him after he tested positive for COVID-19. The 41-year-old teacher then took him to a drive-thru testing site where school district officials found him in the trunk. The woman is charged with endangering a…MORE

Dallas Police Asking For Help to ID Woman Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Child

Dallas Police Asking For Help to ID Woman Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Child

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Police is asking the public to help identify a suspect in the aggravated sexual assault of a child. On January 1, 2022 a woman is accused of committing the attack on the child near Rose Haggar Elementary School on Campbell Road and Plumtree Drive around 5 p.m. She’s black, between…MORE

Pioneering Actor Sidney Poitier Dies at Age 94

Pioneering Actor Sidney Poitier Dies at Age 94

Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Legendary actor of stage and screen Sidney Poitier has died at the age of 94. The Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed his death. Poitier, broke numerous Hollywood barriers in the 1950s and 1960s and in 1964 became the first Black man to win the Oscar for best actor.The award was for…MORE

US Jobless Rate Sinks to 3.9% as Many More People Find Jobs

US Jobless Rate Sinks to 3.9% as Many More People Find Jobs

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added a modest 199,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate fell sharply, at a time when businesses are struggling to fill jobs with many Americans remaining reluctant to return to the workforce. At the same time, Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed that the…MORE

2 held in Seattle woman’s slaying skip bond in Dallas

2 held in Seattle woman’s slaying skip bond in Dallas

DALLAS (AP) — Two women charged with murder and evidence tampering in the 2020 slaying in Texas of a Seattle woman have cut off their ankle monitors and fled while free on bond, a court filing said. Nina Marano, 50, and her wife, Lisa Dykes, 58, were free on their $500,000 bonds when they removed…MORE

Ted Cruz Under Fire for Calling January 6th Rioters ‘Terrorists’

Ted Cruz Under Fire for Calling January 6th Rioters ‘Terrorists’

(WBAP/KLIF) — Senator Ted Cruz is taking heat from conservatives over calling January 6th rioters “terrorists”. The Texas Republican is under fire for his comments on Wednesday during a U.S. Senate committee hearing about Capitol Police oversight during the 2021 riot.. Cruz says he only meant those who attacked police officers on that day, and…MORE

Widow of Euless Police Officer Speaks Out

Widow of Euless Police Officer Speaks Out

(WBAP/KLIF) — Ahead of the funeral of a Euless police officer, his widow breaks her silence about the night of his death. Priscilla Cervantes was severely injured in the Thanksgiving weekend crash that killed her husband, officer Alex Cervantes. Priscilla was in a comma for a month after the car accident that took the life…MORE