HOUSTON (AP) – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner wants Houston property owners to chip in with higher taxes to help the city recover from Hurricane Harvey. The mayor says the 8.9 percent boost in the property tax rate he’s proposing to Houston City Council would raise about $113 million. The tax jump would be in effect…… MORE
San Antonio (WBAP/KLIF) An 11 year old Plano girl started a fundraising effort to buy shoes for Hurricane Harvey victims. Now, a San Antonio based shoe company is helping Brooke Cobb meet her goal. S-A-S Shoes has announced it’s donating 200 pairs of shoes to Cobb’s cause which she is calling “Harvey Soles”. S-A-S Shoes…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) — One woman is dead and a man is in the hospital after someone went on a stabbing spree at an Arlington shopping center Monday night. Police say a man was stabbed around 9:30 across the street from the Parks Mall near I-20 and Cooper. He was taken to the hospital and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – SMU students planted 3,000 American flags on the Dallas Hall Lawn as part of their 9/11: Never Forget Project. Last month, school officials agreed to allow the display, put on by SMU’s Young Americans for Freedom, in the central part of campus after backlash from their previous decision to move it…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF) – The mass shooting during a Dallas Cowboys watch party at a home in Plano Sunday night was unlike anything the city had ever seen, according to Police. “We’re one of the safest cities in the country,” said Plano Police Chief Gregory Rushin. “We’ve never had a shooting of this magnitude. We’ve never…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF News) – FedEx partnered with Heart to Heart International and Pat and Emmitt Smith Charities Monday to put together hygiene kits for families impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Brian Philips, President and CEO of FedEx Office, said there were 3,200 kits assembled, but not all would be delivered to South Texas. “500 of those…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – The NFL is appealing a Federal Judge’s decision to block Dallas Cowboys Running Back Ezekiel Elliot’s six game suspension. The league filed documents in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday to try and reverse the Sherman Judge’s ruling. The case will eventually go in front of a panel of Judges, but when that will happen…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – A second bell tolled at 9:03 a.m. at ground zero to mark the moment a second terrorist-piloted plane slammed into the World Trade Center’s south tower. Monday marked the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. In New York, the victims’ relatives again began reading the names of the nearly 3,000…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) So far so good for the Dallas Cowboys! The team won the season opener against the New York Giants Sunday night. Fans who attended the game had to shell out a pretty penny. According to the website GoBankingRates.com it costs $333.40 for two people to go to a game at AT&T Stadium. Here’s…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — An accident involving an 18-wheeler and the crane set to remove the Robert E. Lee statue in Dallas’ Lee park has left one man dead. The city brought the crane up from Houston after attempts to remove the statue last week were unsuccessful. They had originally used a crane that was…… MORE
