AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Travis County prosecutors say in a court filing that state Rep. Dawnna Dukes spent more than $51,000 on an online psychic, appeared for work at the Capitol impaired and hid a cellphone from investigators. The filing this week was provided by prosecutors ahead of her Oct. 16 misdemeanor corruption trial and…… MORE
(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced an expansion of sanctions on North Korea Thursday and praised China for taking action to limit financial transactions with the isolated communist nation. The effort to project forward momentum in his bid to isolate Pyongyang came at the end of Trump’s four-day visit to the United Nations General Assembly,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Rescue efforts are still underway in Mexico City after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Tuesday afternoon, killing over 230 people. In the DFW Metroplex, people are doing what they can to help those affected by the earthquake. Maria Hernandez, a west Dallas resident, was in Mexico City for her mother’s funeral and left…… MORE
ROCKWALL (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Rockwall Police Department is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting. Investigators said officers had responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex in the 300 block of Lake Meadows Drive shortly before noon on Thursday. When they arrived, they found the suspect sitting in a car in the parking lot. He…… MORE
Rockport (WBAP/KLIF News) – Governor Greg Abbott and country music singer George Strait met with victims of Hurricane Harvey Thursday in Rockport. Strait owns a home in Rockport, along the Texas Coast, about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi. “We like it just the way it was, and we want to get it back there,”…… MORE
By Elliot Spagat | AP September 20 HOUSTON — Immigrants came from across Houston to a Baptist church gymnasium and stacked dollies with boxes of cereal, orange juice and household necessities like cleaning bleach.For many of them, the church was the safest place to seek relief after Harvey devastated Houston and left thousands of immigrants fearful of turning to…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Dallas citizens who are against renaming streets with Confederate ties are making their voices heard online. As of Thursday morning, more than 800 people have signed a petition asking the city and Councilman Mark Clayton not to change the name of Gaston Avenue. A historical commission told the mayor’s Confederate task…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Officials have made three arrests in connection with a March murder case where a body was found in the Trinity River. Kevin Kidd (28), Emmanuel Kilpatrick (31), and Jermon Simmons (35) all sit in jail with a capital murder charge for the death of 31-year-old Liza Saenz. She was found shot to…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – A convicted child sexual predator accidentally became a free man Tuesday night after a mix-up between authorities in neighboring counties. Last month in Johnson County, Shaun James was sentenced to more than ten years in prison on multiple counts of sexual assault with a child. Earlier this week, he was…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Police have arrested a man they say brutally raped a Lake Highlands woman over the course of several hours overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday. Police were called to an apartment complex in the 9900 block of Whitehurst drive (near I-635 and Skillman) around 11:40 am Wednesday after a neighbor found the 67-year-old…… MORE
