FLORESVILLE (WBAP/KLIF News) – Authorities in Wilson County responded to reports of a shots fired call in Floresville on Wednesday, where Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to speak at a vigil in a few hours. The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office said they were searching for a suspect who fired at a nursing home just after…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF News) – The survivors of mass shootings across the country and their families are uniting to raise money for the victims of the Sutherland Springs mass shooting. 26 people lost their lives on Sunday when a gunman, identified as David Kelly, stormed into the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs and opened fire. The group,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Oak Farms Dairy is offering a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and indictment of the suspect in connection with the murder of a clerk at the Dollar General store on Sunnyvale and 52nd Street. 27-year-old Gabrielle Simmons was gunned down Sunday night during an aggravated robbery. The Dallas Police Department…… MORE
(CNN) — House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady pledged Wednesday that people at every income level would see tax cuts as part of the GOP’s tax plan, but stopped short of guaranteeing some people would not see their taxes go up. “I’m confident we’re going to have tax relief at every income level for…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Residents who live within the Fort Worth Independent School District voted Tuesday night to pass the largest school bond in Tarrant County History. The district’s Clint Bond said the $750 million bond will focus on improvements to primarily 14 schools. “We are going to spend money from bond sales on capital improvements…… MORE
(CNN) — Many of them had known each other for years. That’s no surprise in a small town like Sutherland Springs, Texas, where lives intersect daily on the street, at school and in church. 26 of those lives ended Sunday when Devin Kelley walked into the First Baptist Church with an assault rifle. Law enforcement has…… MORE
(CNN Money) — Twitter rolled out a 280 character limit for most of its users Tuesday, and, predictably, lots of people are unhappy. That doubles the original 140 character limit that Twitter has maintained since it launched in 2006. Twitter began testing longer tweets in late September, and found that once the novelty of tweeting longer wore…… MORE
(CNN) — Pitcher Roy Halladay, who won two Cy Young awards and more than 200 major league baseball games during a stellar career, died Tuesday in a plane crash off the Florida coast, authorities said. Halladay, 40, was the only person on the two-seater plane that crashed just off Holiday, on Florida’s Gulf coast north…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The FBI of Dallas is searching for a serial bank robber known as the “Longhorn Bandit”. The Bureau’s Lauren Hagee said the suspect hit two banks in the Metroplex last month. The first robbery occurred at the Bank of the West on Irving Boulevard and Story Road on October 18th. The suspect allegedly…… MORE
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The families of the victims in the mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs will receive state-run funding and private donations to ease the burden of the funeral expenses. The Crime Victim’s Compensation Fund set up through the Texas Attorney General’s Office will allow for each family to…… MORE
