Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News

Dallas Reports Significant Progress on Fixing 911 Issue
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The City of Dallas is reporting significant progress to fixing the problem with 911 ghost calls from subscribers of T-Mobile. In a statement, City Manager T. C. Broadnax say...
Cumulus Media Mar 16, 2017

Water District Conducts Annual Maintenance
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – Some customers of the North Texas Municipal Water District may smell and taste chlorine in their water for the next several weeks. The district is adding chlorine at water tr...
Cumulus Media Mar 16, 2017
Advocacy Group Offers Suggestion for Texas and its Improper Medicare Payments
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — An advocacy group says it has a way to help Texas fix its improper Medicare payment problem. Leslie Paige is with the organization Citizens Against Government Waste and...
Cumulus Media Mar 16, 2017

Search Continues for Missing Retired Dallas Firefighter
Photo courtesy Hunt County Sheriff’s Office QUINLAN (WBAP/KLIF News) — Search teams are now six days into their efforts trying to find missing retired Dallas firefighter Michael Chambers. ...
Cumulus Media Mar 16, 2017

Texas House approves statewide ban on texting while driving
Photo: dmv.org AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas House on Wednesday approved a statewide ban on texting while driving, advancing legislation either fizzled out or was vetoed in previous years. Fort...
Cumulus Media Mar 16, 2017

New abortion regulations close to passing Texas Senate
AP photo AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – New anti-abortion efforts in Texas that would ban a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure and prohibit fetal tissue donation for research are close to c...
Cumulus Media Mar 16, 2017

Ft. Worth Officer Marks Year Since Shooting
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – One year has now passed since Fort Worth Police Officer Matt Pearce was shot in the line of duty. Pearce was shot five times by a felon during a chase in March of 2...
Cumulus Media Mar 15, 2017

‘Bathroom Bill’ Clears Texas Senate but Still Faces Hurdles
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas Senate has passed a North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” that targets transgender people, but the proposal still faces big obstacles from becoming law....
Cumulus Media Mar 15, 2017

Dallas Postal Worker Fired After Dumped Mail Discovered
Courtesy of: WFAA DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) A postal worker is out of a job after Dallas city marshals found a large amount of mail dumped into a creek. Twenty pounds of unopened letters, bills other ot...
Cumulus Media Mar 15, 2017

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Says Bathroom Bill Isn’t About Discrimination
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) While the Texas Senate prepares to vote on the bill that would require everyone to use public bathrooms that match their birth gender, state leaders ...
Cumulus Media Mar 15, 2017









