DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)-Teach For America DFW is working with KIPP Texas Public Schools to train more than 350 new teachers in Texas over the summer through an intensive, multi-month program before the teachers enter the classroom. 100 of these new teachers will be placed in DFW-based schools. Teach For America DFW’s newest teachers will lead virtual…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Ceremonies are planned this week to honor the officers killed on July 7th 2016 in Downtown Dallas. Dallas Area Rapid Transit police will honor DART Officer Brent Thompson who became the first DART officer to die in the line of duty. “The pain is still there. Time gives you the tools to…… MORE
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) – Rescuers are searching through fresh rubble after the last of the collapsed Florida condo building was demolished. Officials said Monday that the demolition allowed crews into previously inaccessible places, including bedrooms where people were believed to be sleeping at the time of the disaster. Three more victims were discovered in the…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling nearly 8.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products because they may be contaminated with Listeria, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday. “The frozen, fully cooked chicken products were produced between December 26, 2020 and April 13, 2021. The products subject to recall bear establishment…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police are trying to work out who did what in a pair of late night, Fourth of July shootings. At 11:15 PM officers were called to Hamilton Park, east of Central Expressway, south of 635 where a group of people was celebrating the Fourth of July. Someone opened fire. It’s not…… MORE
Lewisburg, PA (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas long haul truck driver apparently will not face a possible death penalty if he is convicted of first degree murder in the killing of a woman whose body was found beside an interstate highway earlier this year. Pennsylvania prosecutors decided not to request capital punishment for 29 year old…… MORE
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Demolition crews set off explosives late Sunday that brought down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building, a key step to resuming the search for victims as rescuers seek access to new areas of the rubble. A loud rat-at-tat of explosions echoed from the structure just before…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Sometime during the day Sunday the state of Texas reached a milestone. 50% of its eligible population has now been vaccinated against COVID-19. 14 million of us have received at least one dose of the vaccine. 12 million are fully vaccinated. 19 other states have also reached the 50% vaccination rate. Dallas…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Allen West, the former Florida congressman and firebrand who rode into office on the tea party wave a decade ago, said Sunday that he will run for governor of Texas in a bid to again seize on restless anger from the right. His odds are far longer this time around:…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – As Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker settles into her new role, she released a significant statement regarding a former Fort Worth police charged with murder. Parker said that it is “imperative that the trial be scheduled.” Dean was charged with murder in the 2019 shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson. She was…… MORE
