DALLAS, (WBAP/KLIF) – Former Dallas Cowboy Lucky Whitehead speaks out three days after being released from the team. In an interview with ABC news Whitehead talked about his frustrations about how the organization handled his situation. “I just got thrown into the wolves, you know like I like I got blindsided. My back was against the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A new study out of Boston University found that 99 percent of former NFL players who donated their brain for research were diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE. CTE is caused by excessive head trauma often associated with extreme contact in sports like football,…… MORE
DFW Airport (WBAP/KLIF News) – Hundreds of maintenance workers for American Airlines picketed outside Terminal D at DFW Airport Wednesday, calling for an end to outsourcing. “We have every union on the property supporting us, as well as other unions from different airlines,” says the union’s Steve Halter. TWU is the only union that has…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – President Trump announced Wednesday, through a series of tweets, that transgender people will be barred from serving in any capacity in the military. President Trump said the military would not allow or accept transgender service members, reversing a policy begun by the Obama administration. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been fooled by a pair of Russian pranksters impersonating the prime minister of Ukraine. Perry spoke to the pair about the Paris Climate Accord and the possibility of using pig manure as a power source in his 22-minute conversation with Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov. The entire…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Another state sales tax holiday is coming next month but a newly released report from the Tax Foundation argues these sales incentives actually fail to boost sales while reducing state revenue. The report claims tax holidays merely encourage consumers to shift their spending rather than increase it. The Tax Foundation concludes…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) — The Texas Senate has approved a bill that would fund teacher bonuses and improved health care, but not pay raises. Senate Bill 19 passed with a 28-to-3 vote Tuesday night. It will give teachers with six or more years experience a bonus beginning next September. The $1,000 pay raise for teachers…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Five people wanted by the FBI for targeting jewelry salesmen in North Texas have been arrested. US Attorney John Parker’s office says the five are believed to be responsible for the death of a traveling jewelry salesman last year after they followed him from Richardson to Euless and eventually beat him.…… MORE
AUSTIN (AP) – A Texas version of a North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people has again passed the state Senate but still faces obstacles. The vote Tuesday came a week into a special legislative session that Republican Governor Greg Abbott called after GOP leaders deadlocked in May over efforts to restrict which bathrooms transgender…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Senator John Cornyn is calling on Democrats to offer amendments to the Senate’s Republican health care bill. Cornyn’s comments came after Senator John McCain’s Senate floor speech calling for a bipartisan approach. “Should our Democratic colleagues, in the spirit of Senator McCain’s remarks, decide to participate in the process and build a bipartisan…… MORE
