Lake Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – One person is dead after being shot by a Lake Worth police officer overnight during a high speed chase. Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian says officers attempted a traffic stop on a speeding car with no lights on, on I-20 just after 2am. One of three suspects was fatally shot after allegedly…… MORE
Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes the central and eastern United States in killer cold, a study finds. The study in the journal Science Thursday is the first to show the connections between changes in the polar…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Dallas school district officials say a data breach exposed personal student, parent, teacher and staff information dating to 2010. In statements posted to its website Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District said it learned of the breach the Aug. 8. Since then, the district says it has been investigating and working to…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Another case of attempted human smuggling at the U.S. southern border. Security camera footage recently showed roughly 200 illegal immigrants crossing into Texas and boarding a tractor trailer. The semi then disappears into the night with a destination unknown to authorities. Fox’s Jonathan Hunt in Laredo, Texas, says border patrol agents frequently encounter…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — In-person classes are canceled at a Dallas area school due to COVID-19. Richardson ISD is moving to virtual education for Brentfield elementary school after 29 students tested positive for the virus. According to RISD’s Tim Clark, the district determined that the virus has been transmitted during school activities. Brentfield elementary will go completely…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A 40 year veteran of Dallas Fire Rescue is the first Dallas firefighter to die from COVID-19. According to DFR, 62-year-old David Leos passed away on Thursday afternoon after being hospitalized with COVID since mid-July. His family said he wasn’t vaccinated for the virus. Leos leaves behind a wife, eight children, and…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF) – Tarrant County Public Health announced on Thursday the location of numerous pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics that will be open to the public next week. According to the county, each site has the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and at times the Johnson & Johnson. Children 12 and older are eligible for a vaccination.…… MORE
The General Motors plant in Arlington will remain open… The global shortage of computer chips is causing many automakers to temporarily close factories. GM recently announced that it would pause production at eight North American plants during the next two weeks, including two that make the company’s top-selling pickup truck. Ford will also stop making…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – The Fort Worth Fire Department continues to provide assistance in the southern part of Louisiana in the aftermath of Ida, which made landfall on Sunday as a category 4 hurricane. Fort Worth firefighters, and others from across North Texas, are part of a statewide task force providing recovery help to Louisiana.…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden says his administration is “ready to provide all the assistance that’s needed” in response to a massive wildfire in California and to Hurricane Ida, which knocked out power and wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast before causing deadly flooding and tornadoes in the Northeast. Biden outlined his administration’s response…… MORE
