CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget. New Year’s experiences in Asia and the South Pacific varied greatly depending on country, just like the coronavirus itself, Some…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – The most prolific serial killer in U.S. history has died. Samuel Little died Wednesday in a California hospital. He was 80 years old, and serving 3 life in prison sentences for multiple murders. Little claimed he killed 93 people between 1970 and 2005, most of them in Florida and California, but several…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police officers were called out early Thursday morning to rescue a woman who had somehow driven her SUV off Spring Valley Road, and into the rapidly rising waters of White Rock Creek. Icy cold water was up to the windows of her Range Rover when she called her family in a…… MORE
DENVER (AP) – The first person in the U.S. reported infected with a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been identified as a Colorado National Guardsman who had been sent to help out at a nursing home struggling with an outbreak. And health officials say a second Guard member may be…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A winter storm moving across southwestern Texas on Wednesday could dump more than a foot (0.30 meters) of snow before moving eastward and possibly spawning tornadoes in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi on New Year’s Eve, according to weather forecasters. Jeremy Grams, a forecaster with the National Weather Services’ Storm…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” has died. Her publicist says Wells died Wednesday morning in Los Angeles of causes related to COVID-19. Besides TV, film and stage acting credits, her other real-life roles included teacher and motivational speaker. Born in Reno, Nevada,…… MORE
CORSICANA (WBAP/KLIF) – Emergency crews in Navarro County say there was a tornado touchdown in Corsicana Wednesday morning as storms moved through the area. Several mobile homes are damaged and trees are blown over in an area in the southwest portion of the city. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth said that a video…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Police and firefighters are asking North Texans to keep safety in mind when celebrating the new year. The Dallas Police Department is cracking down on celebratory gunfire and illegal use of fireworks this New Year’s holiday. “We’ll have inspectors that will be riding out with our Officers and they will be taking…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in North Texas local leaders are asking residents to avoid group gatherings over the New Year’s holiday. “As we approach the New Year’s holiday, I ask all Dallas County residents to please reconsider their plans if they involve spending time with individuals outside their…… MORE
DENVER (AP) – Health officials say a Colorado man who became the first reported person in the U.S. to have a COVID-19 variant that is spreading in the United Kingdom hadn’t been traveling. The statement Monday triggers a host of questions about how the new strain showed up in the Rockies. Gov. Jared Polis and…… MORE
