DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Dallas City Councilman has come up with an idea to help both homeless people and stray dogs at the same time. Councilman Kevin Felder said the plan is to house a select number of homeless people and train them to rehabilitate stray dogs. “In my district, we have a dog bite…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Nearly 30,000 Mary Kay Cosmetics Beauty Consultants will be in Dallas over the next two weeks for the company’s national seminar. According to the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, the event will pump more than $48 million into the North Texas economy through local spending and support 4,665 jobs in the Dallas…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – FBI Dallas is asking the public to help identify a serial bank robber who is considered armed and dangerous. The department’s Lauren Hagee said the suspect is believed to be responsible for bank robberies in Grapevine and Fort Worth this Summer. Investigators said the first robbery occurred on June 29th at…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police have arrested a man who admits to his involvement in numerous sexual assaults. 23-year-old Sean Padilla is charged for the Aggravated Sexual Assault offense that occurred on July 18, in the 2900 block of Kendale Drive. Padilla was transported to the Dallas Police Department Headquarters and was interviewed. During the interview…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee has started hearings on two bills that would restrict transgender bathroom use. Republican Lois Kolkhorst introduced the measures. One would require people to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their birth certificate in schools and government buildings; the other would prevent school districts…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A school board in South Texas has taken a controversial step in approving an old school cure for misbehaving students: paddling. Corporal punishment is legal in Texas though not widely accepted or utilized. Beginning in the 2017-2018 school year the policy will be in place for the Three Rivers Independent School…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The salvation Army’s Summer Heat Relief Program kicks into gear today with the opening of 13 cooling stations across the metroplex. The cooling stations are intended to provide life-saving relief for the homeless, those who have no air conditioning, and those who must work outside. As their name implies the cooling stations…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) – A Texas coffee company is recalling one of its roasts because it was making some men a bit too excited. Bestherbs Coffee LLC issued the voluntary recall for its New of Kopi Jantan Tradisional Natural Herbs Coffee after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found it contains desmethyl carbodenafil, which…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The former Balch Springs Police Officer indicted for murder says he was justified in the shooting death of teenager Jordan Edwards. In a 22 page filing responding to a wrongful death civil suit against him by Edwards’ parents, Roy Oliver made several claims that he believes justify his actions. Daryl Washington is…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – An Arlington woman whose family is at the center of a viral arrest video is fighting eviction. Latasha Nelson said the Addison Park apartment complex is evicting her over the arrest of her two sons stemming from an alleged car burglary. Nelson shot cell phone video as an Arlington police officer took her…… MORE
