FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth ISD (FWISD) Superintendent Dr. Kent P. Scribner has formally notified the FWISD Board of Education of his plan to retire. He intends to continue serving in his position until a new superintendent is selected. In a Dec. 16 letter to the Board of Education, Scribner says announcing his retirement now…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The American Red Cross is in dire need of blood donations as it experiences its worst nationwide blood shortage in a decade. The non-profit organization is calling the situation a “national blood crisis” while trying to keep up with the 40% of blood it supplies to health care centers across the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Two North Texas men accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl off the streets of southwest Dallas have been charged with producing sexually explicit images of the teen. Police arrested 43-year-old Lukumond Olatunji and 41-year-old Vincent Thompson on Wednesday. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Texas, Olatunji and Thompson…… MORE
Wise County, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Rural Texas healthcare workers, like those across the nation are feeling the strain of surging COVID omicron variant. Leanne Jenning, Chief Nursing Officer at Wise Health System, the county’s only hospital said that the hospital’s surge surge capacity was at 100%. With 32 COVID patients in the small rural system,…… MORE
Kyle Shanahan and Dan Quinn will always share the painful memory of coaching in the Super Bowl together with Atlanta five years ago when the Falcons couldn’t hold a 25-point lead in the second half of a loss to New England. At least now the San Francisco coach and the Dallas defensive coordinator will be…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – All lanes of I-30 are blocked as the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office is handling fatal auto-pedestrian crash on eastbound RL Thornton at Jim Miller overnight. Very few details were revealed according to Mike Forbes our media partner WFAA-TV who went to the scene over night around 3:30AM.. The WBAP/KLIF newsroom has reached…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth said the number of pediatric patients treated for COVID-19 is at an all-time high. Today, 69 pediatric COVID-19 patients are in the hospital. Nine of those are currently waiting in the Emergency Department for an available bed to open up. The latest surge, believed to…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The City of Dallas is offering incentives to Ford as it pursues becoming the home of the company’s next self-driving vehicle facility. The Ford Facility would bring an expected 250 jobs to the Love Field area. Dallas and two cities in California are Ford’s top finalists. During its Wednesday meeting, the Dallas…… MORE
RED OAK (WBAP/KLIF) – The COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to take hold in schools. More North Texas school districts are canceling class as absences rise with a spike in COVID cases. Red Oak ISD Communications Director, Beth Trimble said on Tuesday that the district will close Friday to help mitigate the spread of the virus.…… MORE
