Yearly Archives: 2019

Disc Jockey Don Imus, Dead at Age 79

Disc Jockey Don Imus, Dead at Age 79

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial slur, has died. He was 79. Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before President Clinton…MORE

A Second Pediatric Flu Death Confirmed in Tarrant County

A Second Pediatric Flu Death Confirmed in Tarrant County

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Flu Surveillance Report provided to the Centers For Disease Control in the last two weeks by health officials in Tarrant County, confirm there has been a second pediatric flu death in Tarrant County. The first flu related pediatric death in the last four years, was reported earlier this month. County…MORE

Shemwell Recall Petition Filed in McKinnney

Shemwell Recall Petition Filed in McKinnney

McKinney WBAP/KLIF – A Citizens group in McKinney today filed a petition to recall district one Councilman La’Shadion Shemwell. The document contains more than 3,000 signatures. The City Secretary has five days to certify the petition. If certified, Shemwell has five days to resign from the city council or submit to a new election that…MORE

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Eyes Advertising Opportunities.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Eyes Advertising Opportunities.

DALLAS – Dallas Area Rapid Transit is consulting the 13 municipalities it offers services in to ask what parameters might be preferred as it considers digital and other advertising methods.  Dallas metro is one of the few larger U S cities or metroplexes in which public transit systems are not generating income via advertising.  New…MORE

Dallas Murder Rate Climbs

Dallas Murder Rate Climbs

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas police are investigating the city’s 203 homicide of the year today. The murder happened last night in the 3000 block of Falls Drive not far from Cowart Elementary School and Planet Fitness. Officers responded to a complaint of shots fired and fighting around 9 pm Thursday. Upon arrival they discovered the…MORE