Category Archives: WBAP News Team

Record Low Travel Expected For Memorial Day Weekend

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) –Travel for this upcoming Memorial Day weekend is expected to be at an all time low despite gas prices being more than a dollar less than they were this time last year. “Even though we have these record low gas prices for Memorial Day, it’s not going to matter because travel is going…MORE

Fort Worth Police Release Officer Involved Shooting Body Cam Video to Address Rumors

Fort Worth Police Release Officer Involved Shooting Body Cam Video to Address Rumors

(WBAP/KLIF) FORT WORTH – UPDATE: Fort Worth Police held a press conference Thursday afternoon to show body cam video of an officer involved shooting Wednesday night on Boca Raton Boulevard in East Fort Worth. Interim Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus says police were trying to locate 18-year-old Amari Malone, a person of interest in…MORE

Texas school superintendent says can’t count on black QBs

Texas school superintendent says can’t count on black QBs

HOUSTON (AP) — An East Texas school superintendent who wrote “You can’t count on a black quarterback” in the comment section of an online news article says he thought it was a private message. Lynn Redden is superintendent of the Onalaska Independent School District in the Piney Woods, about 75 miles north of Houston. In…MORE

Black Women are Stepping Up

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A new generation of black women is moving to take and keep a place at the forefront of the fight against racial bias. Black women have not been strangers to past protests but historians say they’ve often been overshadowed, first by white women during the suffragette movement and then by the black…MORE

Siren Hackers Frighten Many Dallasites over the Weekend

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from tornadoes and other inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an hour and a half Friday night into Saturday morning until officials deactivated the system. Rocky Vaz, who heads the city’s Office of Emergency Management, says the person or…MORE