DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas Police Department has changed its uniform policy to be more competitive in recruiting. Officers in Irving are no longer required to cover up their tattoos. Irving Police Chief Jeff Spivey said that other departments in the metroplex have also changed tattoo policies. “If I’m a recruit with a tattoo…… MORE
Update at 1:15pm: Dallas Fire Rescue says all streets, except Flora between Peal and Olive, have reopened. Original Story: DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A gas leak in downtown Dallas forced first responders to evacuate the area around several busy streets Monday morning. Dallas Fire-Rescue said units were dispatched to the leak near 1801 Pearl Street…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI has fired a longtime agent who once worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation after he sent text messages criticizing President Donald Trump to a colleague. Former agent Peter Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team a year ago after the text messages were discovered. The FBI had been reviewing…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – The McKinney City Manager proposed a $414.5 million total budget for Fiscal Year 2019 that would result in more than a 1.5-cent reduction in the city’s property tax rate. The budget, which includes more than $149 million in the general fund, would lower the city’s property tax rate from 0.540199 to 0.525170. The…… MORE
Arlington, TX (WBAP/KLIF) U.S. Marshalls and Arlington Police SWAT arrested a man who allegedly rammed an officer’s motorcycle during a traffic stop Saturday. The unidentified officer’s bodycam captured the ordeal. He’s heard telling the dispatcher what happened and said that he was able to jump out of the way. 27-year old Lonnie Johnson is charged…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Former Dallas County Sheriff James Carl Bowles died in Mexia Saturday night at the age of 89. Bowles served in the Dallas Police Department for 30 years before his election to five terms as county sheriff from 1985 until 2005. He is remembered as a good administrator who ended cronyism in…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – An Uber driver located a 10-year old fort worth boy who went missing last night. Fort Worth police say Evan Banda had climbed out of a window of his home on Elk Creek Lane near West Risinger Road, with a backpack. After police circulated flyers about the missing child, the Uber…… MORE
UVALDE, Texas (AP) – At least 27 people have been rescued after 8 to 9 inches of rain caused flash flooding in the Nueces River at a park west of San Antonio. The Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office says on its social media that the 27 were rescued from high water Sunday at Chalk Bluff Park,…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Donors pouring money into the November midterm elections are putting cash into races in places they never have before to help Democrats. More than $1 billion raised so far nationally is helping finance battlegrounds that will likely decide control of Congress. But longshot Democratic candidates in historically invincible GOP districts are also…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Glendale Heights, Illinois, a little west of Chicago, have arrested 62 year old David Medina who’s been on the run for the last six months trying to avoid child sex abuse charges in Bell County and Austin. Medina has been convicted of similar charges before: in Florida in 2008, and…… MORE
