COLLIN COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Richardson man accused of killing his girlfriend and hiding her body was found guilty of murder Wednesday afternoon. 28-year-old Jason Lowe testified on Monday that in May of 2016, he and his live-in girlfriend, Jessie Bardwell, took the mind-altering drug GHB and were having sex in the shower when she fell and hit her…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has found a former Dallas accountant convicted of killing his nine and six-year-old daughters mentally competent to be executed. John Battaglia shot his daughters, Faith and Liberty, while they were on speaker phone with their mother, Mary Jean Pearl, in May of 2001. Pearl testified that after…… MORE
HURST/GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF News) – Police are warning parents to be on alert after two suspicious incidents involving a stranger approaching a child near an elementary school have been reported in the Metroplex this week. In Grapevine, a 10-year-old boy was approached by a stranger while walking home from Heritage Elementary School on Monday. On Tuesday, a 9-year-old girl…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The aunt of the 13-year-old Lancaster girl who was kidnapped and murdered in an abandoned South Dallas home is asking that the house be destroyed. On Wednesday, Cynthia King appeared in front of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council on behalf of Shavon Randle’s family. “For myself and my family,…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas is closing its “megashelter,” which housed 3,500 people after Hurricane Harvey. Dallas says about 200 people are staying at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center now. “Full-out, 24 hour effort has resulted in the City of Dallas doing great things for the people in South Texas,” says Mayor Mike Rawlings. Most remaining…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – The McKinney City Council voted Tuesday, to approve the Fiscal Year 2018 budget of $406.7 million and also lowered the city’s property tax rate. The three-cent reduction brought the current rate of 0.57 down to 0.54. This means property owners will pay $0.54 for every $100 of assessed property value. The general fund revenues…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — These are tough times to be named Robert E. Lee, especially for public institutions. In San Antonio the Northeast Independent School District, like others in the country, has decided to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School due to the national debate about symbols of confederacy. Monday night the…… MORE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments over whether a federal border patrol agent can be sued in U.S. courts for shooting across the border and killing a Mexican teenager in 2010. The case is before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court in New Orleans on Wednesday. That court sided…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The Dallas mayor’s task force has decided what to do with the Robert E. Lee statue. The group voted almost unanimously Tuesday night to recommend moving the statue to a museum where members said it can be viewed in the proper context. The Dallas City Council will ultimately make that decision at a…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (WBAP/KLIF News) – One of Dallas’ most wanted fugitives was captured in Los Angeles, California Tuesday morning. Christopher Gonzalez was wanted for the July murder of 54-year-old Horace Davis. He posted an Instagram video showing multiple weapons, including a shotgun that Dallas Police used to pinpoint his location. They contacted LAPD with the…… MORE
