(WBAP/KLIF) — In 2021 President Joe Biden designated Juneteenth as a national holiday, realizing the efforts of Fort Worth resident Opal Lee. Now, the 97-year-old has been selected to be one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announced Friday by the White House. Lee is best known for her decades-long campaign to…… MORE
Johnson County Jury Sentences Jerry Elders to Death Row for Shooting Burleson Cop, Killing Carjacking Victim
JOHNSON COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The North Texas man convicted of shooting a Burleson police officer and killing a woman he carjacked in 2021 has been sentenced to death row. A Johnson County jury found 31-year-old Jerry Elders guilty of capital murder for the death of 60-year-old Robin Waddell last week. He shot Officer…… MORE
Police Not Filing Charges Against Cowboys QB Dak Prescott
(WBAP/KLIF) – Last February, a woman filed a lawsuit accusing Dak Prescott of sexually assaulting her in 2017, and then filed a report seven years later with Dallas Police seeking charges. Prescott’s legal team stated that the woman first sent a letter demanding $100 million dollars in exchange for not reporting it to police. In…… MORE
DFW’s Morning News-Texas Stands with Israel
DFW’s Morning News speaks with Dallas Jewish conservatives about recent demonstrations.… MORE
Traffic Delays: Crane Rolls off Truck Dallas North Tollway Southbound at Bush Turnpike
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) If rush hour weren’t bad enough, DFW drivers who plan to use the southbound Dallas North Tollway are likely to run into delays and possibly traffic diversions near the George Bush Turnpike. Crews are responding to reports a construction crane has rolled off a truck on the southbound tollway road near the…… MORE
2 Northwest ISD Students Arrested After Officials Learn of Violent School Attack Plot with Classmate Watch List
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Northwest Independent School District will have additional security and counselors on hand for the rest of the week, after two students were arrested for creating an online document outlining an attack plan a school in far north Fort Worth. The district said a parent alerted Wilson Middle School…… MORE
Occasional Heavy Rains through the Weekend
WBAP WX CENTER FCST: 5-2-24 TODAY…CLOUDY, BREEZY AND MILD WITH ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.. HEAVIEST RAINS MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA… HIGH NEAR 81 WINDS SOUTH 15-20 MPH AND GUSTY TONIGHT..MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS.. SCATTERED HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE.. LOW NEAR 67 TOMORROW…CLOUDY…… MORE
Fort Worth Police Investigating Drive-By Shooting That Left 6 People, Including 4 Children, Injured
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fort Worth police are searching for the gunman who shot up an apartment complex along the 3600 block of Las Vegas Trail just north of Camp Bowie Boulevard Wednesday night. Investigators said at least six people were shot, including four children, outside the Miramar Apartments and Townhomes. Officers arrived…… MORE
Texas DPS Troopers Move In To Bust Up Anti-War Demonstrators; University of Texas at Dallas.
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas state troopers with Department of Public Safety are moving in to the University of Texas at Dallas campus to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration rallying against the Israel-Hamas war underway in Gaza. No physical altercations are reported at this time despite several arrests. No injuries are reported, though chanting by…… MORE
USGS Reports Two Minor Earthquakes Near Mansfield
MANSFIELD (WBAP/KLIF) – The US Geological Survey is reporting two earthquakes that struck near Mansfield Wednesday but there are no reports of damage as the first registered as a 3.0 and the second one registered as a 3.2. The USGS earthquake map lists both as hitting about seven kilometers south southwest of Mansfield. The USGS…… MORE
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