DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – The NFL is expressing sharper warnings about a Texas “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy has now raised the prospect of Texas being passed over for future Super Bowls if state lawmakers were to an enact laws that are “discriminatory or inconsistent with NFL values.” (Copyright 2017 WBAP/KLIF News.…… MORE
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A Fort Worth Police Officer Facing Disciplinary Action Monday
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Fort Worth Police say they expect an announcement Monday on what, if any disciplinary action one of their officers will receive. It has to do with an officer seen on video that went viral last month. The internal investigation into the officer’s encounter, in which Jacqueline Craig and her two daughters…… MORE
A Happy Weekend for Jerry Jones
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Cowboys owner Jerry Jones with a reason to smile because his grandson, John Steven Jones led the Highland Park Scots to the state’s 5-A Division-1 football championship Saturday with a 16-7 win over Temple. The Highland Park quarterback ran in two touchdowns at his grandfather’s AT&T stadium and he happens to wear…… MORE
We’ve lost a Texas Trailblazer
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Famed heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who implanted the world’s first artificial heart, has died. Dr. Cooley was 96. Linden Emerson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Heart Institute that Cooley founded, says he died Friday. In 1969, Cooley implanted the world’s first artificial heart as a temporary measure while a heart transplant was…… MORE
Study shows Metroplex has two of top 10 fastest growing American cities
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A new study conducted by WalletHub.com of the fastest growing cities in America shows five Texas cities in the top 10, with two of them in the Metroplex. Frisco is ranked at No. 1 as the fastest growing city since 2009, with job growth higher than the national average at more…… MORE