WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior executive of Southwest Airlines apologized to a Senate committee Thursday for a December meltdown and said the airline is upgrading software to help fix its inability to reassign crews after the winter storm. The president of the Southwest pilots’ union told senators that airline leaders ignored calls to improve technology for…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart, changing his plea weeks after the U.S. government said it wouldn’t seek the death penalty for the hate crimes and firearms violations. Patrick Crusius still faces a…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A portrait of Fort Worth’s Opal Lee is now among others approved to hang on the walls of the Texas Senate Chamber inside the Texas State Capitol building in Austin. The Civil Rights icon led the effort to make Juneteenth a Federal holiday. During a ceremony on Wednesday, her portrait was officially…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – The McKinney City Council voted to call an election where voters will consider one general obligation bond proposition and three Council seats. The general and special election is scheduled for May 6. Early voting takes place April 24 – May 2. According to the city, a bond committee made a recommendation to…… MORE
JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — Over 11,000 people are confirmed dead following a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday. Residents digging through rubble on Tuesday in a northwest Syrian town discovered rescued a toddler, and a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble from this…… MORE