FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The Fort Worth City Council approved a $782 million fiscal 2021 general fund budget Tuesday and voted to keep the property tax rate at 74.75 cents per $100 assessed valuation. The general fund budget is only a portion of the city’s Capital and Operating Budgets that total just under $2 billion for fiscal…… MORE
Four Additional businesses in the City of Dallas are being fitted with surveillance cameras that are connected to, and monitored by, the Crime Center at the Dallas Police Department. Major Jim Lewis says since the Starlight Program began with three locations in October 2019 and has led to a nearly 40 percent reduction in calls…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth Police have made an arrest in the 46-year old cold case murder of a 17-year old Western Hills student who was brutally attacked and killed in 1974. 77-year old Glen McCurley is charged with capital murder in the death of Carla Walker. Police say McCurley was responsible for the attack…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face off on the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic and race and violence in the nation’s cities next week when they meet for their first presidential debate. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday announced the six topics for the first face-to-face…… MORE
ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Allen ISD families who are struggling financially amid the COVID-19 pandemic now have some additional help. The district is offering free breakfast and lunch meals for all in-person elementary and middle school students, as well as PreK through 12th grade students who are learning virtually at home through the end of the…… MORE
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) – First-ever remote U.N. General Assembly leaders meeting begins under cloud of pandemic, divisiveness. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning the U.N.’s first-ever virtual meeting of global leaders that the world is facing an “epochal” health crisis, the biggest economic calamity and job losses since the Great Depression, dangerous threats to human…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police have arrested a 59-year old man who admitted to intentionally setting fire to his townhouse on Holly Hills drive early Sunday. According to the arrest affidavit Bruce Hamilton called 9-1-1 to self-report that he had started the blaze around 4am, and that he wanted to meet officers at a…… MORE
Washington (AP) Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham says Republicans have the votes to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick before the Nov. 3 presidential election. Graham, R-S.C., said late Monday on Fox News that he wouldn’t be intimidated by Democrats, who vehemently oppose any confirmation vote until a new president is inaugurated. In 2016,…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – A woman suspected of sending an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to the White House is also suspected of sending similar packages to Texas Law enforcement agencies. 53-year old Pascale Ferrier, (pictured right) is a Canadian citizen and a computer programmer. She was taken into custody by U. S.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- The Federal Railroad Administration gave its final approval for a high speed bullet train between Dallas and Houston. The FRA approved framework and safety requirements for this high-speed rail system and the official environmental approval, which will select the path of which the bullet train will follow between Dallas and Houston. Developer, Texas…… MORE
