AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – ERCOT is asking Texans to voluntarily reduce electricity use, if safe to do so, due to extreme temperatures and forecasted record demand. The Voluntary Conservation Notice is in effect Tuesday, June 20 from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. CT. The Voluntary Conservation Notice is part of ERCOT’s Texas Advisory and Notification System,…… MORE
Hunter Biden To Plead Guilty To Federal Charges
Dover, Delaware (WBAP/KLIF) – President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, has worked out a deal with the Justice Department, and will plead guilty to three federal charges. A Tuesday morning court filing in Delaware by the DOJ reveals Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to two federal tax misdemeanor charges, and one count of illegal…… MORE
Cooling Stations Opening Up Across North Texas Amid Excessive Heat
NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Cooling stations are opening up across the Metroplex as the excessive heat and heat index values continue to blanket the region. The Salvation Army of North Texas said they’ve got cooling stations on standby. Guidelines at each location vary, as do the rules for each city and county. North…… MORE
19-Year-Old Dallas Man Gets Life in Prison for Fatally Shooting Teenage Girlfriend 10 Times
COLLIN COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A Dallas man who shot his seventeen-year-old girlfriend ten times in February 2022 has been sentenced to life in prison. “This man brutally shot his defenseless, teenaged girlfriend 10 times, at least four times while she was on the ground in a fetal position. And the jury rightly saw…… MORE
Opal Lee, Senator Cornyn Lead annual Freedom Walk on Juneteenth
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and other lawmakers, joined “Grandmother of Juneteenth” Ms. Opal Lee and Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker on Monday to recognize Juneteenth, a celebration marking the news of freedom reaching enslaved people in Texas years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln in 1863. In 2021,…… MORE