(WBAP/KLIF) — Over a dozen Austin police officers face charges for using force to quell violent protestors. After riots and protests erupted after the death of George Floyd in 2020, Austin police used bean bag guns to subdue violent protestors. Now, a Texas grand jury has indicted 19 Austin officers on charges of aggravated assault…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management, on Thursday, to activate additional state resources in response to critical fire weather conditions across Texas heading into the weekend. The Texas A&M Forest Service has activated three strike teams from Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System that include approximately 75…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A Garland father charged in connection to a triple murder in December is indicted and his son is still on the loose. On Thursday, a Dallas County grand Jury indicted Richard Acosta on Capital Murder. The 33-year-old father is the accused get away driver in the December convenience store shooting in Garland…… MORE
AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A former Los Angeles Angels employee has been convicted of providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in Texas. Eric Kay was convicted one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. He faces up to life in…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Tarrant Area Food Bank was one of several North Texas food pantries that received a large donation from the Bank Of America this week. The food bank got a $25,000 donation that will help fund 125,000 meals. TAFB said the money couldn’t have come at a better time as…… MORE
Updated 2/17/22 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden warned Thursday that Russia could still invade Ukraine within days, and the No. 2 diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was expelled as tensions flared anew in the worst East-West standoff in decades. NATO allies accused Russia of misleading the world with “disinformation” by…… MORE
Washington, DC (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal judge in Washington, DC will decide on Friday whether to allow Stewart Rhodes out of jail until is trial. Rhodes of Granbury is among several people charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the riot at the US Capitol Riot last year. During a hearing Wednesday lawyers for Rhodes…… MORE
Coppell, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Just outside a popular coffee shop in Old Town Coppell Wednesday, a violent tragedy left two people dead Police say a 20-year old Nicholas Twining shot 21-year old Caitlin Rogers in front of George Coffee Shop, then turned the gun on himself just a few feet away. Residents in the upscale…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys paid $2.4 million to four members of the team’s cheerleading squad who accused a team vice president of watching them undress in a locker room during a 2015 event at AT&T Stadium, ESPN reported Wednesday. Each of the women received $399,523, the network reported, citing documents and unidentified people as…… MORE
ALLIANCE TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF)-AllianceTexas, Hillwood’s 27,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use community in north Fort Worth, continues to be one of the state’s most formidable economic engines with approximately $100 billion generated in regional economic impact and over $3.13 billion in total taxes paid to local public entities during the past three decades. According to its annual Insight Research…… MORE
