IRVING (WBAP/KLIF)- Microsoft expands it’s operations in North Texas, bringing over 550 jobs to the area. The Microsoft campus in Las Colinas opened in 2001 but with a $31 million investment, they were able to complete a campus expansion this week with the Microsoft Technology Center. Campus director Raamel Mitchell said the Las Colinas Campus…… MORE
Carrollton Business Owner Being Investigated for Alleged Investments Fraud
CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF) – A Carrollton business owner who was once sent to prison for investments fraud is again under investigation. The Texas Securities Board and the Carrollton Police Department raided the Carrollton-based investment business of Robert Joseph Mangiafico Jr. on Thursday. Mangiafico is on parole from a 40-year prison sentence for stealing $655,000 from elderly widows…… MORE
Minnie’s Food Pantry of Plano Dishes Up Meals and Growing Hunger Issues
PLANO – WBAP/KLIF – Minnie’s Food Pantry is readying to dish up healthy Thanksgiving style meals to more than 2200 families Saturday morning at it’s headquarters, 661 18th Street in Plano. The event will mark the offering of more than 10 million meals to date given at no charge by Minnie’s. Founder Dr. Cheryl Jackson…… MORE
Near Record Holiday Travel Expected
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – AAA is expecting near record travel this holiday season as over 55-million Americans will travel by car, bus, or plane this Thanksgiving holiday. Of that number, about four million Texans will hit the roads, a 2.5% increase over last year. The roughly 100-thousand additional travelers on Texas highways is mainly due to…… MORE
Deadly East Texas Legionnaires’ Outbreak Linked to Hot Tub Display
TYLER, Texas (AP) – Authorities have linked a hot tub display at a state fair in Tyler in September as the likely source of contamination which led to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that’s killed one person and made seven others sick. Tyler officials closed the convention center where the fair was held. The Tyler Morning…… MORE
It’s a Toy Drive in Sherin Mathews’ Honor for Some Needy Kids in Fort Worth
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Carrollton woman continues her efforts to honor Sherin Mathews, the 2-year old year Richardson girl who was killed by her father in 2017. In the name of a Facebook page created in Sherin’s honor two years ago, founder Shanna Poteet has launched a ‘Sherin’s Toy Drive‘ for some impoverished kids…… MORE
KLIF Morning News: Oxford’s “Word” of the Year, and an End to the Impeachment Hearings
0:24 — Finally! The public impeachment hearings are over! Dave and Amy visit with Linda Kenyon on Capitol Hill one last time to put a bow on it, and see where this goes from here. 7:10 — Oxford has chosen its “word” of the year for 2019, but Dave, Amy and Scott have issues with…… MORE
An ‘Active Shooter’ Call Ended Peacefully in Far North Dallas
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police officers responded to an ‘active-shooter-on-foot’ call in far North Dallas last night. Undercover police arrived first to the 18700 block of Lina street around 9:30 to find a woman firing a weapon. Uniformed Dallas police officers arrived shortly afterward and gave loud verbal commands. Police say the suspect responded by…… MORE
Parkland Hospital Police Officer Charged With Rape
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Parkland Hospital police officer has been arrested on several felony charges including sexual assault, according to the Dallas Morning News. Police were called late Saturday to the hospital where they say 28-year old Keivon Gamble had been in an altercation with a woman in the parking lot. The woman who was…… MORE
EPA Ends Safety Rules Put In Place After Deadly Texas Blast
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Trump administration is scaling back chemical plant safety measures that were put in place after a Texas fertilizer plant explosion in 2013 that killed 15 people. The changes announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency include ending a requirement that plants provide members of the public information about chemical risks…… MORE
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