FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Fort Worth Police are touting a new plan to decrease violent crime after what the department calls an “unfortunate” increase in murder. Officers recently responded to four murders in four days. Last year, 112 people lost their lives to violence, that’s a 26 year high. The department said unfortunately, officers…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 444,000, a new pandemic low and a sign that the job market keeps strengthening as consumers spend freely again, viral infections drop and business restrictions ease. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 34,000 from a revised 478,000…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Kluber stopped for a moment before his first pitch of the ninth inning. “I had to take a breath after the warmups and calm myself down a little bit,” said the pitcher nicknamed Klubot for his robot-like demeanor. Kluber then finished the sixth no-hitter in the majors this season and…… MORE
SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) – Officials say a Texas man accused of torturing and killing four kittens had worked as a geometry teacher at a Houston-area high school before his arrest. Twenty-nine-year-old Graham Reid, of Sugar Land, faces four counts of felony cruelty to non-livestock animals. The Fort Bend Independent School District said in a…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening without media witnesses present because prison agency officials neglected to notify reporters it was time to carry out the punishment. Quintin Jones received the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in…… MORE