DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Thousands of demonstrators have gathered at Dallas City Hall Plaza for an anti White Nationalist rally. Some counter protesters are demonstrating at the event but are outnumbered by their opposition. The Dallas Police Department has gone to great lengths to secure the area. Buses and utility trucks are parked on streets and on…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Six Flags Over Texas has decided to stop flying the Confederate flag as a result of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a man, identified as James Fields Junior, plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters at a white nationalist rally. The “Unite the Right”…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway says confederate statues in the city will be taken down. Caraway was joined by other members of the City Council Friday in an effort to move the process along. “As the nation grapples with what to do with the vestiges of the Confederacy, so does Dallas,” said…… MORE
(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon has been fired, multiple White House officials told CNN on Friday. Sources told CNN that Bannon’s ouster had been in the works for two weeks and a source said that while Bannon was given the option to resign, he was ultimately forced out. White House press…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dickies Arena in Fort Worth will host the American Athletic Conference Tournament for three years, starting in March of 2020. The arena is under construction now and should be complete in November of 2019. “This was a great win for us,” says Matt Homan, the president of Multipurpose Arena Fort…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Five Dallas-based members of the Texas Legislature are urging Mayor Mike Rawlings to appoint a task force to decide what’s to be done with the city’s Confederate monuments. In a letter they sent to the Mayor they say the monuments are “offensive, hurtful and repugnant.” Mayor Rawlings has already said he believes…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — Divers have been searching for a 15-year-old boy who disappeared into the Trinity River near the East 4th St. Bridge in Fort Worth late Thursday afternoon. Two dive teams worked until 9:00 pm Thursday night and will resume the search Friday morning. Searchers said the water was murky and that…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Police have arrested a Dallas doctor and believe he’s the serial flasher that many residents have been reporting about on social media. According to the arrest warrant, Reginald Newsome was arrested Wednesday after a woman says he exposed himself to her in the parking lot of Target off Haskill Road. Warrant paper…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A top Texas Republican wants the accuracy of memorials around the state Capitol reviewed amid calls to remove Confederate monuments. A spokesman for Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said Thursday that the powerful GOP leader will work with a Dallas lawmaker who this week singled out one Confederate plaque as “indefensible…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – North Texans are securing their solar eclipse glasses before a total eclipse of the sun is visible on Monday. The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Dallas was given 300 pair of solar eclipse glasses for the viewing, allowing hundreds of kids to safely experience the event. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon blocks any part…… MORE
