TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Tarrant County Health Department says there are two new cases of the Zika virus being reported. That brings the total number of cases in Tarrant County to three. The County’s Health Department Director, Vinny Taneja, says if a mosquito bites one of the new patients, it could carry the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) The Dallas Zoo will be taking in 18 elephants from Africa soon, despite an effort to stop the transfer. The animals from Swaziland are in route to DFW today. The nonprofit group Friends of Animals filed a request for a restraining order and is suing the US Fish and Wildlife Service which issued a permit to the…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A man will serve the rest of his life behind bars. A jury in Tarrant County has sentenced Broderick Cofer, 45, to nine life sentences after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a relative. Cofer acted as his own attorney at trial. The jury didn’t take long to determine he had…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Tarrant County medical examiner is working to determine what killed an inmate from Mansfield. Jeremiah Gillispie, 22, was arrested Feb. 27 on charges of driving under the influence and possession of dangerous drugs. Jailers and a staff nurse found him unconscious and were unable to revive him. Video from the jail’s…… MORE
MANSFIELD (WBAP/KLIF News) – Three students in Mansfield overdosed on Xanax while at school on Tuesday, according to school officials. Teachers at Summit High School noticed the teenage girls were acting strangely in class and called an assistant principal. The students were taken to a nearby hospital. The girls are expected to recover. Classmates said the…… MORE