Yearly Archives: 2017

Arlington Police Seek Help Identifying Attacker

Arlington Police Seek Help Identifying Attacker

Arlington (WBAP/KLIF News) – Arlington police are asking for help identifying a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a massage parlor last month. Police said the man went into the business in the 100 block of E. Park Row about 6 pm July 22. They said he talked to an employee, then sexually assaulted her.…MORE

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Response to Prison Heat Order Expected

Texas Department of Criminal Justice Response to Prison Heat Order Expected

HOUSTON (AP) – Texas corrections officials are under a federal judge’s order to submit a plan by the end of the day to relieve hundreds of “heat-sensitive” inmates from the sweltering conditions inside a Southeast Texas prison. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison has ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to lower the housing area…MORE

Special Counsel Robert Mueller Launches Grand Jury in Russia Investigation

Special Counsel Robert Mueller Launches Grand Jury in Russia Investigation

 (CNN) — Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has launched a grand jury in his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Mueller had impaneled the grand jury in Washington, where his team of investigators continue to look into whether…MORE

Supporters of the “Bathroom Bill” Rally in Austin

Supporters of the “Bathroom Bill” Rally in Austin

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Supporters of the so-called bathroom bill called on the Texas House to take up the measure passed by the Senate. Several dozen people gathered outside the state capitol on Thursday to urge lawmakers to consider the bill, which would only allow people to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their…MORE

Local Parole Officer Arrested by Police

Local Parole Officer Arrested by Police

(WBAP/KLIF) North Texas Parole Officer Michael Lee Bush, who is 52 years old, was arrested by Denton Police on Tuesday, August 1st, for possession of a controlled substance. According to officials, Bush scheduled an ‘unscheduled’ meeting with a parolee of his to allegedly receive drugs. Shane Kizer with the City of Denton says a tip…MORE

President Trump Warns of ‘Dangerous Low’ in Russia Relations

President Trump Warns of ‘Dangerous Low’ in Russia Relations

(CNN) — The United States and Russia are plunging deeper into their worst crisis since the Cold War, with politics in both nations outpacing the capacity of either government to mitigate the danger. President Donald Trump’s grudging signature on new sanctions punishing Russia for alleged meddling in last year’s US election sparked an explosive rhetorical…MORE

Developers Break Ground on 27-Story Condo Tower in Plano

Developers Break Ground on 27-Story Condo Tower in Plano

Plano (WBAP/KLIF News) – Developers have broken ground on a 27 story building that will become the tallest residential building in Collin County. Windrose Tower will be part of the Legacy West development in Plano. “It’s a beautiful opportunity to live in Plano,” says Mayor Harry LaRosiliere. “You can live, work and play all in…MORE

Man Brutally Attacked on DART

Man Brutally Attacked on DART

(WBAP/KLIF) Riding the DART Green Line home on Sunday, July 30th, Kennan Jones was brutally beaten by a group of at least 7 people. Jones says this all happened after he asked them to stop smoking their marijuana on the train: “All of a sudden, they started smoking. I’m like come on man. We’re on the…MORE

Oklahoma shaken by half a dozen earthquakes

UPDATE – Three more earthquakes ranging from 2.9 to 3.3 magnitude have been reported in central Oklahoma this morning. EDMOND, Okla. (AP) – At least six quakes of magnitude 3.0 or stronger have struck since Tuesday in an area about 4 miles northeast of Edmond – about 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. The strongest was a…MORE

Two hurt in southeast Texas plane crash

Bullard (WBAP/KLIF) – The two occupants of a single engine private plane were injured when they crashed alongside Highway 69 some 100 miles southeast of Dallas. They had taken off from Tyler Pounds Regional Airport shortly before their plane went down, pitching nose-first into the ground in full view of several passing vehicles. Why they…MORE