(Texas A&M Forest Service) – WBAP/KLIF – Texas A & M Forest Service officials warn 2022 is shaping up to be the most destructive fire season since 2011.Central Texas is particularly hard hit this year; 988 fires there, and statewide, 6900 fires statewide so far, charring 699-thousand acres. A small wildfire in hard-hit Bastrop County…… MORE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE – (WBAP/KLIF ) – The National Hurricane Center is closely watching a tropical disturbance that is sitting along the entire Texas coast east into far west Louisiana. Heavy rainfall is expected this weekend in the South Texas Valley up east through Houston, and forecasters say they expect as much as 6-10 inches…… MORE
People with chronic conditions, obesity, heart disease, and those with poor blood circulation are more likely to undergo heat exhaustion. DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – On Thursday, Aug. 11, Dallas County Health and Human Services reported their second heat- related death. A 77-year-old male with underlying health conditions suffered from a heat stroke. DCHHS Director Dr. Philip…… MORE
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) – Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied Rushdie, who is 75, was flown…… MORE
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Multiple news reports say the FBI has recovered several documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, a federal judge was weighing whether to unseal the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week. Attorney General Merrick Garland declared…… MORE