Dallas (WBAP-KLIF) – Dallas police have made an arrest in the Thursday evening murder of a 56 year old man who was gunned down in the Cedar Crest neighborhood of south Dallas. 21 year old Deaaron Wheaton was identified as the probable shooter through surveillance photos. He’s in the Dallas County Jail charged with murder.…… MORE
TORNILLO, Texas (AP) – The nonprofit running what once was the largest U.S. detention camp housing migrant teenagers says the last children have left the facility. The federal grantee that operated the tent city in Tornillo, Texas, said the center is shutting down beginning Friday. BCFS Health and Human Services’ says everything will be removed…… MORE
Corpus Christi (WBAP/KLIF) – A former Texas congressman who resigned under pressure last year because of sexual harassment allegations against him has now quit his $160,000 a year lobbyist position for the Calhoun Port Authority. The Port Authority announced former Republican representative Blake Farenthold’s resignation with a terse statement that he had left “to pursue…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – Houston authorities have arrested a suspect in the December 30 killing of a young girl who apparently was gunned down by mistake. 20 year old Eric Black, Jr. was arrested Saturday, and charged with capital murder early Sunday morning. Black reportedly told Houston detectives he was driving the car from which the…… MORE
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
