WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave his post on Jan. 1. Trump announced Mattis’ new departure date in a tweet, and said he’s naming deputy defense chief Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary. The move comes just three days after Mattis resigned in protest over Trump’s decision to pull…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave his post on Jan. 1. Trump announced Mattis’ new departure date in a tweet, and said he’s naming deputy defense chief Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary. The move comes just three days after Mattis resigned in protest over Trump’s decision to pull…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A rookie Dallas Police officer has been arrested for domestic violence. 23 year old Reginal Thomas joined the Dallas Police Department in February. He was was assigned to the north-central patrol division as an officer-trainee. He was booked into the Dallas County Jail early Saturday morning, and is charged with family violence…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth man has been arrested for shooting his wife’s laptop. Police were called to Gary Lykins’ home early Saturday morning after he put a bullet through the laptop because he was annoyed by the loud music his wife was playing. Lykins then barricaded himself inside his home, and refused…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Several employees at the Fed Ex distribution hub in Hutchins have been arrested for stealing from packages moving through the facility. Package handlers Larry Poole and Wade Hal allegedly stole $50,000 worth of cellphones and other merchandise. A Fed Ex manager and a security guard were also arrested. Police say Poole and…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Dallas Police report a three year old child has been declared dead after an apparent accident, in which it’s believed the child was run over by a backhoe driven by a family member. Few details are available at this time, other than the child was taken to Children’s Hospital where he…… MORE
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police indicate they are looking for four Black male suspects in a home invasion type shooting of a man and a dog in the southeast part of the city on Etta Drive late Friday night. The victim is expected to survive the attack with a shoulder wound; the dog was…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – The presidential libraries in Texas of George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush are being impacted during the U.S. government’s partial shutdown. Officials with the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center at Texas A&M University said Saturday its National Archives facilities are closed during the shutdown. The library, located in…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – (WBAP/KLIF) – President Trump dug in during a standoff with Democrats concerning his demand for billions of dollars in US-Mexico border wall money. The shutdown will disrupt government operations and leave hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed, or forced to work without pay just days before Christmas. White House negotiators left…… MORE
ARLINGTON; WFAA – (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas pastor, who may have most recently worked in the Terrell area, has been arrested in Arlington, before being moved to the Tarrant County Jail, and charged with 7 counts of sex assault of a child, three of the charges aggravated sex assault of a child. Police say…… MORE
