Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – The Arlington Fire Department is grieving the loss of one of their comrades. 35-year old Elijah Snow died under suspicious circumstance while vacationing with his wife at a Cancun resort. Arlington Batallion Chief Jackie Parker told WFAA, the couple was celebrating their 10-year wedding anniversary. He says that Snow’s wife called police…… MORE
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Big 12 leaders held a call without Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday to discuss how to keep the league’s flagship schools from bolting to the Southeastern Conference — and contingency plans to survive without them. “There was no panic,” a person familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press on condition of…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring. But it may be too late to change the minds of many who are refusing. After months of ignoring – and, in some…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities said Thursday that at least 10 people have been jailed so far and more are expected in the coming weeks. The arrests are part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions that he says are needed to slow…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — More than a million migrants have already crossed the U.S. border. The border crisis threatens the safety of both U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants. Uvalde mayor Don McLaughlin details how the open border gates are effecting his community. the mayor believes that the number of migrants that will enter the country this year…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — There has been a steady surge of migrants crossing the southern border since President Joe Biden took office in January. Bill Melugin is in Del Rio, Texas, and says the crisis isn’t getting better. The Border Patrol is now forced to let in entire family units. A family from Haiti just walked through the open…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — New information was released, Thursday, about a quadruple murder near New Summerfield earlier this week. Authorities say the three men charged in the fatal shooting of four people at a home in East Texas had arranged to purchase a gun from one of the victims. However, Jesse Pawlowski, Billy Phillips and Dylan Welch…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF)- If you’re planning an international trip soon, you may want to double check to see if your passport is valid. Over 3 months is what the State Department is saying it will take to get a U.S. passport due to extreme backlogs and increased desire to travel in the wake of the pandemic.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Evidence of an untreatable fungus has spread to two Dallas-area hospitals. According to U.S. health officials a cluster of 22 patients have the fungus and two were resistant to all three major classes of antifungal medications. Both those patients died. The fungus is said to be a harmful form of yeast that…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – It’s not your ordinary week on Cleveland Drive in Plano. “I mean helicopters have been here overnight and their trying to get all the wreckage cleared,” said John Farley who lives several houses down from the home that exploded. “It’s just the recovery process.” Plano Fire-Rescue initially said that the explosion was…… MORE
