The Palo Pinto County wildfire burning about 60 miles west of Fort Worth is still 65 percent contained, though it’s charred 45-hundred acres as of this afternoon. Meteorologists with the National Weather Service offices in Fort Worth are helping commanders on the fire lines with very specific area forecasts and weather updates. With a 30…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Five schools in Austin named for Confederate heroes likely won’t get new names for another school year. The Austin American-Statesman reports that district administrators have slowed down the process after the school board voted in February to rename five campuses. That’s to give a task force enough time to examine criteria…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth Police are looking for three people who may be involved in a pawn shop robbery that went bad. Shots were fired during a holdup at the Fort Worth Gold and Silver Exchange. An elderly clerk at the Exchange, Gary Duke, was severely wounded and later died of his injuries.…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Department of Transportation has begun a study of a three freeway interchange in southern Tarrant County. When the three way meeting of U.S. Highway 287, Interstate 20 and Loop 820 was designed in the late 1950s it was in a rural area, and was all that was needed there…… MORE
The Trump administration has done away with federal guidelines for universities on including affirmative action in their admissions selections process.… MORE