Category Archives: KLIF News & Information In The Morning

Arkansas university won’t name building after Botham Jean

Arkansas university won’t name building after Botham Jean

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

Four Arrested for Allegedly Killing a man Whose Car They Were Trying to Steal

Four Arrested for Allegedly Killing a man Whose Car They Were Trying to Steal

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

Lawsuit claims police ignored Constitutional rights

Lawsuit claims police ignored Constitutional rights

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

One dead in head-on collision

One dead in head-on collision

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

A small child has been killed in a dog attack near Lake Tawakoni

A small child has been killed in a dog attack near Lake Tawakoni

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

Supreme Court refuses to hear a border wall challenge

Supreme Court refuses to hear a border wall challenge

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 carjacking turned into a murder case

Mansfield carjacking turned into a murder case

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

Baylor to review statues, buildings over links to slavery

Baylor to review statues, buildings over links to slavery

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

Houston area pilot killed in early morning plane crash

Houston area pilot killed in early morning plane crash

Zavalla (WBAP/KLIF) – A 40 year old pilot was killed early Saturday morning when his small plane crashed as he tried to land on a private runway in East Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says James VanLue of Tomball was killed in the crash about 2:00 AM, but no one happened upon the…MORE

Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall

Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall

San Francisco (AP) – A federal appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of military money to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in two opinions Friday that diverting $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build the wall illegally sidesteps…MORE