ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF News) — A fire in Allen took the home of a firefighter who was out fighting a separate fire while it happened. Jeremy West has been with the Allen Fire Department four years and received a call early Thursday morning while on the job saying his home was ablaze. His wife made it…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF)- Crews are searching for a missing fisherman after a boat capsized on Eagle Mountain Lake in Tarrant County Thursday afternoon. Mike Drivdahl with the Fort Worth Fire Department said two men were fishing below the lake’s dam and their boat overturned near Ten Mile Bridge and Robertson Road. One man was able…… MORE
DUNCANVILLE (WBAP/KLIF)- Crews are cleaning up in Duncanville after heavy rainfall Wednesday caused several sewage overflows. April Reiling with the City of Duncanville says the overflows happened at Mauk Branch Creek and Horne Branch Creek located near Little and South Main Street and Forest Circle in South Dallas County. Reiling tells residents to avoid the…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – House lawmakers don’t plan to vote this week to end the government shutdown. That’s according to the office of Republican Whip Steve Scalise, who announced the schedule Thursday. Scalise’s office says lawmakers are waiting on the Senate. But the Senate already approved a bill to keep government running. The House panned that…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – Texas Governor Greg Abbott is in Japan meeting with Toyota Motor Corporation’s C E O. The automaker relocated it’s North American headquarters to Dallas last year. Abbott has also met with the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Bill Hagerty. Governor’s spokesman John Wittman says the Governor is paying for the trip, and returns…… MORE