Update at 2:30pm: LOS ANGELES (AP) – Veteran seismologist Lucy Jones says the earthquake Thursday was the strongest to hit Southern California in 20 years. She says the previous large quake was a 7.1 on that struck in the area on October 16, 1999. Jones told reporters at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,…… MORE
Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Happy Independence Day from the State of Texas where thousands of people are enjoying holiday festivities across the state. In Round Top, Texas on Wednesdsay, a 166 year old celebration continued. Started in 1851, the Round Top celebration is the oldest Fourth of July observance west of the Mississippi. Through all the…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – District attorneys in at least four Texas counties say they’ll stop accepting misdemeanor marijuana cases until the problem is fixed. A new law legalizing hemp in Texas is creating problems for authorities that will likely cost millions of dollars to fix and has temporarily stopped the prosecution of some misdemeanor cases involving…… MORE
Garland, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – In a YouTube video Wednesday, former Florida congressman Allen West announced his intentions to run for chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who now lives in Garland with his family, says his overall goal is to defeat the “scourge called progressive socialism in Texas.”…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Many North Texans will continue to pop fireworks over the Independence Day weekend and the Parkland Burn Center in Dallas wants residents to be safe. Stephanie Chapman is a nurse at the burn center and said every year they see a spike in fireworks-related injuries. “In the last five years, we’ve admitted…… MORE