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
NFL’s Top Defense and Offense Clash When Patriots Host the Cowboys
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — As a young football fan growing up in California, it didn’t take Tom Brady long to dislike the Dallas Cowboys. “I’ve really not liked the Cowboys since coming out of the womb as a Niner fan,” Brady joked this week. “They’ve got a lot of great players in their history. Guys…… MORE
Two Women Arrested Near Waco, Charged with Capital Murder of Two Elderly Plano Residents
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF)- Two women arrested near Waco and connected to the deaths of two elderly Plano residents are now charged with capital murder. 29-year-old Cynthia Wingate and 23-year-old Carmen Moreno were caught during a traffic stop. David Tilley with the Plano Police Department said they found two knives- one of them covered in blood, debit…… MORE
Impeachment Hearings Wrap for the Week with Former White House Russia Adviser
WASHINGTON (AP) – A former White House national security aide says a July 10 meeting of U.S. and Ukrainian officials was so alarming that her boss told her to call a lawyer. Fiona Hill says a key moment was when European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he and Trump’s acting chief of staff had worked…… MORE
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