Grapevine (WBAP/KLIF News) – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with local, state and federal law enforcement in North Texas Tuesday. Sessions has been meeting with US attorneys across the country. Sessions also met with faith leaders and attended a briefing on violent crime with the FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He then…… MORE
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/NVDVRrWLs4 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017 DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The controversial First Baptist Church in Dallas performed at the “Celebrate Freedom Rally” at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. last Saturday and they sang a song based off of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.…… MORE
SOUTHLAKE (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the bones found in Southlake Monday afternoon are human. Southlake Police said the bones were scattered in a wooded area off North White Chapel Boulevard near State Highway 114 and had likely been there for a while. A utility worker found them around 3:15…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The University of North Texas and Southern Methodist University have been awarded scholarship funding for students who want to pursue a career in education. The universities are two out of ten recipients of the Raising Teachers Program. It’s a program that was launched by the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation. UNT Dallas President…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says his campaign war chest has grown to almost $17 million. The legislative session prohibited lawmakers from raising money before June 19, and they faced a financial disclosure deadline at the end of last month. In a statement Monday, Patrick said he used that 12-day window alone…… MORE
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A trial in Texas is underway with Democrats and minority rights groups arguing that the booming state needs new election maps for 2018 to undo discrimination. Texas on Monday returned to court again on the defense over voting rights. Two federal courts this year found that Republican lawmakers purposefully discriminated against…… MORE
ENNIS (WBAP/KLIF News) — One person is dead and another is in the hospital after an 18-wheeler drove through a fender bender that happened just minutes earlier. The initial wreck happened in Ennis on I-45 northbound near Highway 287. Police say the two drivers got out of their cars and called for help, but before…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Texas (WBAP/KLIF News) — Three police officers suffered from smoke inhalation and the man they were attempting to subdue is hospitalized with severe burns after dousing himself in gasoline and then being shot with a police stun gun. At a news conference Monday Sgt. VaNessa Harrison explained that officers responded to the unnamed man’s…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott has formally called state lawmakers into a special legislative session beginning next week – directing them to approve oversight rules allowing some state agencies to continue operating before tackling a host of other proposals he wants approved. Abbott’s proclamation Monday means the Legislature will reconvene July 18…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – John Wiley Price and his assistant have been ordered to pay legal fees. In 2015 a Judge ruled legal fees for Price and Daphne Fain would primarily be paid by taxpayers because a large amount of their assets were seized. But, Fain has since be acquitted on all charges and Price has…… MORE
