Category Archives: WBAP Morning News Team

Paxton Wins Big Money State Senate Race; Valdez Faces Runoff for Governor; Cruz to Face O’Rourke
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – In a wrap up of primary election results in Texas, In the hotly contested Collin County State District 8 race, Angela Paxton defeated Phillip Huffines. The combin...
Cumulus Media Mar 07, 2018

University of Texas sued over removal of Confederate statues in Austin
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The University of Texas is being sued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans over the removal of four statues at UT Austin. Statue of Robert E. Lee being removed from UT A...
Cumulus Media Aug 25, 2017
Black Women are Stepping Up
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A new generation of black women is moving to take and keep a place at the forefront of the fight against racial bias. Black women have not been strangers to past protes...
Cumulus Media May 06, 2017
Siren Hackers Frighten Many Dallasites over the Weekend
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from tornadoes and other inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an h...
Cumulus Media Apr 08, 2017
Medical Marijuana Arrest made in Texas
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A California man is facing possible prison time in Texas after he was arrested while carrying his supply of medical marijuana as he drove to Houston to visit his grandd...
Cumulus Media Feb 27, 2017
Roe v. Wade Death
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – The woman at the center of Roe v. Wade has died. Norma McCorvey was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time when she tried to get an abortion in Texas...
Cumulus Media Feb 18, 2017
NFL Warning to Texas
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – The NFL is expressing sharper warnings about a Texas “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy has now raised the prospect ...
Cumulus Media Feb 11, 2017
A Happy Weekend for Jerry Jones
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Cowboys owner Jerry Jones with a reason to smile because his grandson, John Steven Jones led the Highland Park Scots to the state’s 5-A Division-1 football champi...
Cumulus Media Dec 17, 2016
We’ve lost a Texas Trailblazer
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Famed heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who implanted the world’s first artificial heart, has died. Dr. Cooley was 96. Linden Emerson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Hear...
Cumulus Media Nov 19, 2016

Study shows Metroplex has two of top 10 fastest growing American cities
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A new study conducted by WalletHub.com of the fastest growing cities in America shows five Texas cities in the top 10, with two of them in the Metroplex. Frisco is rank...
Cumulus Media Oct 04, 2016






