DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Cowboys owner Jerry Jones with a reason to smile because his grandson, John Steven Jones led the Highland Park Scots to the state’s 5-A Division-1 football championship Saturday with a 16-7 win over Temple. The Highland Park quarterback ran in two touchdowns at his grandfather’s AT&T stadium and he happens to wear…… MORE
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We’ve lost a Texas Trailblazer
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Famed heart surgeon Denton Cooley, who implanted the world’s first artificial heart, has died. Dr. Cooley was 96. Linden Emerson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Heart Institute that Cooley founded, says he died Friday. In 1969, Cooley implanted the world’s first artificial heart as a temporary measure while a heart transplant was…… MORE
Study shows Metroplex has two of top 10 fastest growing American cities
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A new study conducted by WalletHub.com of the fastest growing cities in America shows five Texas cities in the top 10, with two of them in the Metroplex. Frisco is ranked at No. 1 as the fastest growing city since 2009, with job growth higher than the national average at more…… MORE
Fort Worth police respond to suspicious clown call
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — Fort Worth Police responded to a call late Sunday night involving screams in a residential neighborhood and somebody in a clown costume. A resident near Melanie Lane around i-35W and Western Center reported the supposed clown running down the sidewalk and yelling, but police could not find the person in…… MORE
Religious and LGBT groups unite to denounce shooting in Orlando
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – A coalition of local religious and community groups are pulling together after this weekend’s mass shooting in Florida. “Gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual members of our community here in North Texas and throughout this country too often are the targets of hate,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. “But here in…… MORE