AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Texas Department of Public Safety is hoping its latest effort to crack down on speeding drivers will help curb the growing number of annual fatalities. According to TX-DOT, there more than 163,000 speed-related crashes in 2021 and 1,532 of them were fatal. The initiative is called “Operation Slowdown.” TX-DOT…… MORE
UVALDE (WBAP/KLIF) – Uvalde County officials are opening a temporary facility for the newly created Uvalde Together Resiliency Center on Monday, to begin providing long-term support services for the community. Operated initially by the local district attorney’s office, the Center will offer ongoing mental health resources and other assistance provided by state agencies and local…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office is mourning the loss of one of its own. According to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 5 p.m. on Sunday, a Deputy suffered a medical emergency while on a call. Life-saving measures were conducted on scene and he was taken to Harris Hospital in…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – (WBAP/KLIF)- Two more mass shootings overnight; in fact, 22 mass shootings in the United States since the massacre in Uvalde taking the lives of 19 schoolchildren and two of their teachers. Saturday night, 3 people died immediately from gunfire wounds in Philadelphia and 3 more in Chattanooga with scores injured. In both…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas state lawmakers are expected to hold committee meetings surrounding ways to better protect Texas children later this month. The committee’s were formed after Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state leaders in a letter to convene them in the wake of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde. 19 students and 2 teachers…… MORE