IRVING (WBAP/KLIF)- Irving police say a person whose body was recovered from Lago De Claire in a Las Colinas neighborhood may be a woman who was reported missing earlier this week. Officer Robert Reeves with the Irving Police Department said police had been searching the area over the past two days looking for 38-year-old Lashun Massey who…… MORE
GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF) – Grapevine Police are asking for the public’s help obtaining information about an injury that occurred at Great Wolf Lodge. According to Police, on Saturday, April 10, between 1:30pm and 2:30pm, a 4-year-old girl suffered serious head trauma inside the waterpark. Her father found the child injured at the bottom of the interactive…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A bill that would allow the permanent sale of alcohol-to-go at Texas restaurants is headed to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk. The Texas Senate passed HB 1024 by Representative Charlie Geren and Senator Kelly Hancock on Wednesday, making to-go cocktails from restaurants a permanent perk of living in Texas. “Texas restaurants took a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest jobless numbers show the economy is healing. The U.S. Labor Department reports the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 last week to 553,000, the lowest level since the pandemic hit in March of 2020. Jobless claims were down from 566,000 a week earlier. They have fallen…… MORE
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas (AP) – Authorities say a Texas man has died after going into cardiac arrest when he was attacked by an aggressive swarm of bees outside his home. Seventy-year-old Thomas Hicks was mowing his lawn Monday when he was repeatedly stung by the bees outside his home in Breckenridge, about 130 miles west of…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden declares “America is rising anew” as he calls for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the coronavirus pandemic and broadly extend the social safety net on a scale not seen in decades. Biden’s first nationally televised address to Congress on Wednesday raised the stakes for…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Cleanup is underway after large hail and damaging winds hit parts of North Texas last night. Residents of the Westhouse Apartments in North Fort Worth say the hail damage was massive and widespread. In Parker County high winds toppled a mobile home on Enchanted Lakes Drive near Eagle Mountain Lake.…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) — Texas has topped 50,000 COVID-19 deaths during the 14-month pandemic, university researchers reported Wednesday. Johns Hopkins University researchers placed the Texas COVID-19 death toll at 50,037 Wednesday, out of 3,092,597 cases. That toll is the nation’s third-highest. But researchers say the rolling two-week average of new cases continues to decline, with a…… MORE
UPDATE: A tornado warning issued for Tarrant County has been canceled by the National Weather Service. The warning was issued shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday and while a tornado was not spotted the storm brought rain, lightning and large hail. 3 inch size hail was reported in North Ft. Worth, Keller, Flower Mound and other…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – The calls for justice in the death of Marvin Scott III inside the Collin County jail are growing louder following the medical examiner’s ruling that Scott’s manner of death was “homicide.” Community reacts to ruling that manner of #MarvinScottIII was homicide. @WBAP247NEWS @570KLIF pic.twitter.com/HxHLhoa0dL — Clayton Neville (@ClaytonNeville) April 28, 2021 Collin…… MORE
