Chicago (WBAP/KLIF) – The city of Chicago has pulled in its welcome mat, and says travelers coming from Texas and 14 other states are no longer free to come, and then go where they please. As of Monday, visitors from those 15 states will have to quarantine for two weeks after they arrive in Chicago.…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – Five airlines including American Airlines have reached tentative agreements for new loans from the government to help them survive the virus pandemic. The Treasury Department said Thursday it has letters of intent with American, Spirit, Frontier, Hawaiian and SkyWest. Those and all other leading U.S. airlines previously accepted a combination of grants…… MORE
Searcy, AR (WBAP/KLIF) – The largest private college in Arkansas has decided not to re-name a building after a graduate who was killed by a Dallas police officer. Botham Jean, a black man, was shot and killed in his own living room in early September, 2018 by a white, off duty Dallas police officer. Harding…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) Four suspects have been arrested for the fatal shooting ten days ago of Thomas Scott. He was gunned down in the parking lot of Sam’s Grocery in east Oak Cliff, apparently by someone trying to steal his car. 19 year old Jahquan Ferguson and three juveniles have been arrested for the killing. They…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – Three Dallas women arrested amid protests against racism and police violence are suing the city and surrounding county in a challenge to the Texas anti-rioting law. Yolanda Dobbins, Lily Godinez, and Megan Nordyke filed suit in federal court Tuesday. They claim police selectively enforced Texas’ anti-rioting law in a way that targeted…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A head-on collision on the Dallas North Tollway late Tuesday night killed at least one person. According to the Texas Highway Patrol, a pickup truck heading southbound on the tollway near Mockingbird Lane was hit head-on by a car traveling the wrong direction. The driver of the car was killed. The driver…… MORE
Quinlan (WBAP/KLIF) – A small child has been killed by a dog in a semi-rural part of Hunt County. Hunt County deputies say the child slipped, unnoticed, out of the family’s fenced yard on the west side of Lake Tawakoni late Monday morning, and was walking down a gravel road when a neighbor’s dog got…… MORE
Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that rejected environmental groups’ challenge to sections of wall the Trump administration is building along the U.S. border with Mexico. The high court on Monday declined to hear an appeal involving construction of 145 miles of steel-bollard walls along the border in Texas,…… MORE
Mansfield (WBAP/KLIF) – A carjacking call Monday afternoon in Mansfield quickly became a murder case. Mansfield Police were called to a shopping center parking lot by a woman who said her car had been stolen from her by a man who leaped out of a nearby parked car, and took hers at gunpoint. When police…… MORE
WACO, Texas (AP) – Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past. The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded…… MORE
