PARKER COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – Firefighters have contained a series of massive grass fires in Parker and Grayson Counties Monday. The Texas Forest service said gusty winds of up to 30 mph help spread the blaze across 1,000 acres. Parker County Judge Mark Riley gave an update shortly after 5 p.m. He said he declared a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP/WBAP/KLIF News) – The House passed a bill Monday afternoon that would fund federal agencies through February 8th. The 266-150 vote came hours after the Senate passed the bill. The move marks the potential end of a government shutdown that began Saturday after Democrats derailed a Republican measure that would have kept government open until…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The Mayor of Dallas says North Texas has as good a shot as any when it comes to landing Amazon’s second headquarters. Mayor Mike Rawlings told WFAA TV’s “Inside Texas Politics” Dallas-Fort Worth has the financial edge over all of the east coast cities on Amazon’s short list, but that they…… MORE
DALLAS(WBAP/KLIF)- Guilty is the verdict for the man accused of murdering an 18-year-old Dallas teen. 36-year-old Antonio Cochran was found guilty on a charge of murder in court Saturday in the slaying of Zoe Hastings, who disappeared in October of 2015 after she went to return a video and go to church in the Lake…… MORE
(CNN) – The federal government shut down at midnight Friday as senators continued to scramble to reach a deal to fund the government. This is the first modern government shutdown with Congress and the White House controlled by the same party, and it comes on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s White…… MORE