DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A former Farmers Branch Police Officer will be sentenced early next year in the 2016 murder of a local teenager. Ken Johnson was found guilty by a Dallas County jury Tuesday, in the Murder of 16-year-old Jose Cruz. He was also found guilty of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon for injuring another teen…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats say three provisions in the Republican $1.5 trillion tax bill violate Senate rules and will likely be removed before that chamber votes on the measure. The House approved the legislation Tuesday. But this means the House will have to vote again on the legislation once it’s been amended and approved by…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas County Commissioners Court unanimously selected Deputy Chief Marian Brown as the interim Dallas County Sheriff Tuesday morning. Brown said this is something she said she’s wanted for almost 30 years. “To whom much is given much is required. So, I realize there’s a lot of work for me to do.…… MORE
Fort Worth, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The Tarrant County Sheriff’s office says it wrapped up its investigation into an Amazon delivery driver accused of dumping packages. The driver was caught on video dumping undelivered packages into a field and a dumpster in Eagle Mountain. The department’s David McClelland says it recovered about 25 packages and reached…… MORE
DALLAS (KLIF/WBAP) — This past weekend, Producer Robyn went to purchase an item off Facebook Marketplace, and found the seller didn’t know her own address. What’s more, Robyn says several of her friends either don’t know or don’t use their own address for correspondence. What do you think? Is it because of smartphones and turn-by-turn…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Mavericks will retire Derek Harper’s #12 jersey on January 7, 2018 vs. the New York Knicks. He joins Brad Davis (#15) and Rolando Blackman (#22) as the only Mavericks to have their jerseys hung in the rafters. In a news release, owner Marc Cuban said, “Like every Mavs fan around the…… MORE
Dallas, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – It’s believed that a bright red substance spotted near White Rock Creek may be a detergent used at car washes. The substance was first spotted by the Dallas Police Department helicopter unit. The substance was draining into a ditch on the property owned by Texas Totes and Barrels, an agricultural service…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) Fort Worth – Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald has fired an officer over the way he handled a domestic violence call last August. Sergeant Kenneth Pierce reportedly became impatient when a woman was producing identification and caused an unnecessary physical confrontation. He ordered another office to tase her. Fort Worth Chief Fitzgerald released the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A judge has given a second chance to a dog once owned by a Dallas panhandler after it had initially been sentenced to die. The dog, named “Lamb of God”, is known as Lamby and was ordered to be euthanized after it bit a child. Lee Jamison is the director of Awwdoptable…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Tarrant County judge sentenced a Fort Worth man to one year in jail for Animal Cruelty. Justin Ryan Rubio pleaded guilty in April to torturing his dog Tara. Police arrested Rubio, a bartender, in March of 2016, after the apartment manager at Monticello Crossroads Apartments, where he was living…… MORE
