Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Fire Fighters Association says hundreds of its members still haven’t been paid for the overtime they worked last December and January when COVID-19 hit Dallas Fire-Rescue especially hard. Before December, city policy was to use the overtime earned by a firefighter to cancel the cost of sick leave if that…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – Country star Mickey Gilley has died. He was 86. He was known for such hits as “Window Up Above” and for the Texas honky-tonk he owned that inspired the hit film “Urban Cowboy.” Based on an Esquire magazine article about two regulars at Gilley’s, the film starred John Travolta and Debra…… MORE
(UPDATED 05.08.2022 12:15 pm) National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Fano reports a nearly 20 degree warmer than usual heat wave sitting atop the Lone Star State. Fano says it’s unlikely heat or humidity will significantly ease through at least Saturday of next weekend. With continued tinder dry conditions almost statewide and through the nation’s Southwest,…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection says one of its Texas agents has been arrested, and charged with assaulting and mistreating a juvenile in custody. The agency says the agent was based in the Del Rio area along the border with Mexico. It neither named the agent nor described the alleged assault. It…… MORE
Los Angeles (WBAP/KLIF) – A multiple murder suspect who pleaded guilty to at least five killings in September, 2018 has been sentenced to serve multiple life sentences.Ramon Escobar admitted murdering his aunt and uncle in Houston, then fleeing to southern California where he lived on a beach, and attacked at least a dozen homeless men…… MORE