The Federal Reserve’s updated policy released today indicates Fed officials maintain their forecast of three rate cuts in 2024. The Fed, also keeping its benchmark rate within the 5.25% to 5.5% range. The message remains the same as for some time; interest rates remain stationary, but rate cuts are planned before this year’s end. Inflation…… MORE
By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled with an administrative stay for now blocking the state of Texas from enforcing it’s controversial senate bill four in Texas to take effect. It would allow police officers to make arrests of anyone suspected of entering…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has turned his State of the Union speech into an animated argument for a second term as he laces into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad. Biden delivered broadsides Thursday at “my predecessor” without mentioning Trump by name,…… MORE
WASHINGTON D.C. (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A Dallas-area woman at the center of a high-profile abortion debate is among North Texans will attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night. Kate Cox drew national attention in December when she sued Texas seeking an emergency abortion while twenty weeks pregnant. A district court…… MORE
HEMPHILL COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The first lawsuit in connection to the deadly Smokehouse Creek Fire in the panhandle has been filed. Melanie Mcquiddy of Hemphill County filed the lawsuit on Friday. She’s suing the Southwestern Public Service Company after her home near Canadian burned down, alleging the over 1 million acre fire was…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fort Worth police are reassuring the public that the popular West 7th District is safe after a the man wanted for a deadly shooting over the weekend turned himself in Monday. 29-year-old Karlove Palmer is in the Tarrant County Jail on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of…… MORE
BORGER (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Officials with the City of Borger said it’s in need of clean up materials such as shovels, rakes, gloves and heavy duty trash bags as it continues to clean up areas ravaged by the ongoing wildfires in the panhandle. In a Facebook post on Sunday; the city said its immediate…… MORE
PANHANDLE (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A second death has been reported as a result of the wildfires that continue to scorch the Texas panhandle. The family of Cindy Owen said she died on Thursday after being caught in a wildfire near Pampa. The Texas Department of Public Safety said the truck driver got out of…… MORE
STINNETT (WBAP/KLIF News ) – What is now the largest wildfire in Texas history has scorched over 1 million acres in the Texas panhandle since it began Monday and claimed the life of at least one victim. The family of 83-year-old Joyce Blankenship said she died at her house in Stinnett. The Smokehouse Creek fire…… MORE
PANHANDLE (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fast moving wildfires continue to spread in the Texas panhandle, prompting evacuation orders and the shutting down of a nuclear facility Tuesday afternoon. Some residents in the rural towns of Canadian, Pampa and others were told to leave as neighborhoods and livestock were threatened. Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster…… MORE
