HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton avoided an April 15 trial in his 9-year-old securities fraud case and has entered an 18-month pretrial agreement with the State of Texas. He’s accused of defrauding investors in the Mckinney tech company Severgy by not disclosing that he was being paid to promote the…… MORE
UPDATE: (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Rescuers are still searching for at least six people after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland just before 2 a.m. Tuesday. Maryland Governor Wes Moore said the crew on the Singaporean cargo ship, the Dali, issued a mayday call moments before it collided with the bridge. The…… MORE
Arlington, VA (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Boeing President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun will be stepping down at the end of the year. The embattled company is under pressure from airlines and regulators amid increasing calls for major changes due to a number of quality and manufacturing flaws on its planes. In a letter…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – A baby gorilla born in a historic emergency C-section at the Fort Worth Zoo will be available to see this week only ahead of a transfer to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Jameela was not bonded with her mother, and zookeepers think that’s because hormones play a vital part in mother and…… MORE
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
