Text DFW to 24042 to join 97.9 The Beat’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). Follow The Beat On Twitter: A teenager, Christopher Bonilla, was recently killed in a bus/train accident in Athens, Texas (about 1.5 hours outside of Dallas). The teen’s 9 year-old cousin, Joselyne Torres, who was the only other student on […]

On Saturday, DART’s local day pass is going up from $5 to $6 and the regional pass from $10 to $12. Monthly and Annual passes will go up as well.  DART is ending the 2-hour passes and instead offering an A.M. and P.M. pass for $3. $2.50 (cash only) for a single-ride pass is coming back […]

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Fredzania ‘Zanie’ Thompson, 19, was struck by a train Friday during a photo shoot in Navosta, Texas.

Another day, another hate crime. A woman has been taken into custody after allegedly stabbing a transgender black man in his face on Sunday night after he offered her his seat on the subway. The woman reportedly made racial remarks like “I don’t want to sit next to black people” before the attack that left […]

A New Jersey Transit train crashed at a Hoboken station on Thursday morning, killing at least one person and injuring about 100 others, NBC News reports.

In today’s joke, Rock-T asks, what is the difference between a teacher and a train? Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Listen to the audio player to…

As President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands at Friday night’s Summit of the Americas, the two power players quietly made history. Though…

I Can only say one thing about this one,…..this has to be one lucky/blessed  individual. He needs to play the lottery asap!! LOL Authorities say a Kansas man who was walking along railroad tracks wearing headphones was hit by a train that he didn’t hear approaching behind him — but that he got back up […]