Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Arlington Bowie head football coach Danny DeArman who made a daring water rescue Saturday during flooding rains. A woman’s car had stalled out in high water the I-30 service road near Caddo Mills. DeArman waded, then swam to the woman’s car. At one point during the current from the rushing floodwaters swept…… MORE
Divers Search Benbrook Lake in Search of Clues in 1974 Disappearance of 3 Fort Worth Girls
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – In connection with one of Fort Worth’s most notable cold cases, over 100 onlookers Awatched Saturday as divers pulled submerged cars out of Benbrook Lake. Investigators continue looking for clues into the 1974 disappearance of 3 girls who went missing from the then Seminary South Shopping Center on South Freeway. One…… MORE
Report finds dozens of Texas gas leak explosions since 2006
DALLAS (AP) — More than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 along a network of pipelines operated by one of the largest natural gas companies in the U.S, leading to nine deaths and badly injuring at least 22 other people, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Dallas Morning…… MORE
3D Gun Advocate Accused Of Sex With Minor Released From Houston Jail
HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns is back in the U.S. after being arrested in Taiwan. The U.S. Marshals Service says 30-year-old Cody Wilson was booked into Harris County Jail in Houston early Sunday. He was released Monday morning on…… MORE
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Receives Donation Worth Estimated $18 Million
HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say bananas donated to a Texas prison turned out to have nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden inside the boxes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a Facebook post that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated because they were already ripe. The…… MORE
Hundreds of Soldiers Returning Home From Afghanistan
OKLAHOMA CTY (AP) – Hundreds of Oklahoma National Guard soldiers are returning home after deploying to Afghanistan for almost one year. The Guard says 350 members of the 1st Squadron, 180th Cavalry Regiment will return to Oklahoma on Tuesday. The unit deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, in late 2017. Officials say the unit was part of…… MORE
Atmos Energy Corp Denies Fault After Home Explosions & Deaths
DALLAS (AP) – A newspaper investigation has found that more than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 because of leaking natural gas. Nine people died and at least 22 others were badly injured. The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday the explosions all happened along a network of pipelines…… MORE
Internationally wanted torturer caught in west Texas
San Angelo (WBAP/KLIF) – Federal authorities say a former Peruvian army sergeant has been arrested in San Angelo on a 27 year old human rights charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says its agents apprehended 48 year old Dennis Wilfredo Pacheco-Zambrano for the 1991 killings of 15 villagers in Peru. The incident is known…… MORE
Plano sewers overflowing into creeks
Plano (WBAP/KLIF) – The city of Plano says flooding Saturday caused two of its sanitary sewers to overflow into nearby waterways. The first occurred near the intersection of San Simeon Way and Independence Parkway. That forced an estimated 100,000 gallons of raw sewage into Spring Creek. The second overflow was reported where Plano Parkway crosses…… MORE
A Mesquite Man Arrested On A Capital Murder Charge, After 3 Year Old Dies
MESQUITE, Texas (AP) – Police in suburban Dallas have arrested a 26-year-old man on a capital murder charge after a young child who was left in his care died. Authorities in Mesquite said in a statement Friday that police were called to a home the previous day where a 3-year-old boy was found unresponsive. The…… MORE
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