COLLEGE STATION (WBAP/KLIF News) – A hurricane-relief campaign backed by all of the living former United States presidents has raised over $41 million for victims in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The George Bush Foundation’s David Jones said the fundraiser shows how Americans come together despite their differences when tragedy strikes. Over…… MORE
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan judge sentenced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 in prison for multiple sexual assaults of women and girls. At the Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina told Nassar, “I just signed your death warrant.” The sentence capped a remarkable seven-day hearing that brought more than 150 victims…… MORE
ITALY,Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Family and friends of the victim of a shooting at Italy High School in Ellis County said she’s in “good spirits” despite a long-road to recovery. According to a GoFundMe account set up for 15-year-old Noelle “Cricket” Jones, she sustained serious injuries including a bullet lodged in her neck, another removed from her abdomen and her…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A Fort Worth man has been identified as one of five employees killed following an explosion on an Oklahoma oil rig. Authorities confirmed that 35-year-old Josh Ray’s remains, along with four others, were found Tuesday, a day after the explosion at the drilling site near Quinton, Oklahoma about 100 miles southeast of…… MORE
ITALY, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – A tearful prayer vigin at a small North Texas church to pray for a girl wounded in a shooting at the town’s high school. The vigil Monday night at Central Baptist Church in Italy was held to bring comfort to residents in the town of about 2,000 in the wake of…… MORE