Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Transportation Security Administration says it’s been affected by a wave of sick calls as the government shutdown goes into its third week with no end in sight. According to the union that represents TSA employees two to three times as many workers as usual are calling in sick at DFW Airport.…… MORE
El Paso (WBAP/KLIF) – Reports in El Paso say dozens of would-be immigrants who have been held in federal custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were dropped off Sunday night at the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown El Paso. It is not clear who dropped them off. A number of the immigrants told El…… MORE
Corsicana (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Corsicana, some 60 miles south of Dallas, are investigating a triple homicide. They got a call over the weekend from a woman who said her sister and her sister’s estranged husband were arguing, and he had a gun. Nancy Castillo told the 9-1-1 dispatcher she was trying at that moment…… MORE
Jasper (WBAP/KLIF) – An execution date has been set for the second of three white men convicted of a notorious murder twenty years ago. John William King will be put to death by lethal injection April 24. He and two others chained a mentally disabled black man to the back of a pickup truck in…… MORE
Tornillo (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke paid a surprise visit to the immigrant teen tent city in Tornillo Sunday, and came out saying it appears to be shutting down. O’Rourke says the tent city’s administrators told him they are no longer accepting new children, and they have 300 ready to leave as soon as…… 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) – There were a total of 25 executions nationwide in 2018. 13 of them were carried out in Texas. The Death Penalty Information Center also reports Dallas County leads the state with the most condemned killers put to death, four, including two who were executed this month. Meanwhile 2019 execution dates have been…… MORE
Balch Springs (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas resident arrested for a Balch Springs armed robbery has turned out to be the masked bandit who also held up three convenience stores in Mesquite in a three day period this week. 20 year old Johnny Monarrez has confessed to all four robberies, admitting he held up the stores…… MORE
