Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Grand Jury Indicts Alec Baldwin for 2021 Movie Set Shooting

Grand Jury Indicts Alec Baldwin for 2021 Movie Set Shooting

(WBAP/KLIF) — SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the actor. Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe this…MORE

DOJ Releases Scathing Report on Law Enforcement Response to Uvalde School Shooting

DOJ Releases Scathing Report on Law Enforcement Response to Uvalde School Shooting

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of one of…MORE

Denton County First Responders to the Icy Rescue

Denton County First Responders to the Icy Rescue

COPPER CANYON – (WBAP/KLIF) – First responders in Denton County pull more than people from dangerous or life-threatening situations. Turns out even cows are grateful for a helping hand. Denton County Emergency Services say a citizen called asking for help with a cow that had fallen through an ice crusted pond in Copper Canyon. WFAA-TV…MORE

Mike McCarthy To Remain Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys

Mike McCarthy To Remain Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) The Cowboys’ loss to the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round had caused speculation about Mike McCarthy’s future however he will be back for the 2024 season. Owner and General manager Jerry Jones reportedly met with McCarthy Wednesday after he finished exit interviews with the players. Here is the full statement from…MORE

Denton Fentanyl Dealer Charged with Murder

Denton Fentanyl Dealer Charged with Murder

(WBAP/KLIF) — For the third time the City of Denton has charged a drug dealer with murder, after a new Texas law went into effect late last year. 18-year-old Zakkary McReynolds sold fentanyl to Ryan Erwin that the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office determined caused the the 17-year-old’s death. According to Amy Cunningham with denton…MORE

Bipartisan House Resolution Rebukes Biden for Border Crisis

Bipartisan House Resolution Rebukes Biden for Border Crisis

(WBAP/KLIF) — FOX NEWS.COM — More than a dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives formally rebuked President Biden over his border and immigration policies on Wednesday. Lawmakers passed a Republican-led resolution “denouncing the Biden administration’s open-borders policies, condemning the national security and public safety crisis along the southwest border, and urging President Biden to…MORE

Lawmakers Pass Measure Blaming Biden Administration for Border Crisis

Lawmakers Pass Measure Blaming Biden Administration for Border Crisis

WASHINGTON — House republicans helped push a measure through the House formally condemning the Biden Administration over the ongoing border crisis. The mostly symbolic move puts blame on the White House in an election year over the ongoing crisis dealing with a continued surge of migrants at the southern border with Mexico. This comes while…MORE

Appeals Court Rules Sexually Explicit Books Must Remain in Texas Schools

Appeals Court Rules Sexually Explicit Books Must Remain in Texas Schools

(WBAP/KLIF) — The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Texas law aimed at removing sexually explicit books from school libraries is unconstitutional. The federal appeals court determined that the law to rate books violates free speech rights. The law had required booksellers to use a rating system to classify books based on…MORE

A Maine Judge Puts Decision to Remove Trump from Ballot on Hold

A Maine Judge Puts Decision to Remove Trump from Ballot on Hold

(WBAP/KLIF) — PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine judge on Wednesday put on hold a decision on former President Donald Trump’s ballot status to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a similar case in Colorado. Trump’s lawyers appealed in state court when Secretary of State Shenna Bellows removed the Republican front-runner…MORE