Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has ordered Justice of the Peace courts throughout the county to clear their backlogs of old, un-pursuable cases. The J.P. courts are now in the process of wiping out hundreds of thousands of cases of unpaid traffic tickets, and payment for hot checks. Some of those…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize the private land it needs to build a border wall in south Texas. The Justice Department has filed three lawsuits so far this month against landowners in the Rio Grande Valley, targeting border towns and farms at Texas’ southernmost point. Many more…… MORE
Kansas City (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal jury in Kansas City has convicted a Virginia man of swindling women in Texas and elsewhere across the country out of nearly $3 million. Henry Asomani, a naturalized American citizen from Ghana cheated them by persuading women who had posted ads on online dating sites, or through their Facebook…… MORE
Grand Prairie (WBAP/KLIF) – The latest victim was an 81 year old Grand Prairie resident whose death was confirmed Friday. The first fatality was a 36 year old Dallas resident who died of the illness earlier this month. The County’s Health Director says “this is the earliest we have had this much flu activity in…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A white supremacist gang member has been executed for strangling a West Texas woman over fears she would alert police about his drug operation. Justen Hall received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The 38-year-old Hall was condemned for the 2002 killing of 29-year-old Melanie Billhartz…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – On Election Day Tuesday, Texas voters had many constitutional amendment propositions on the ballot. Proposition 4 was top of mind for many; the issue amending the constitution to making it harder for lawmakers to levy an income tax passed overwhelmingly. Governor Abbott issued a statement after passage praising the vote: “Today’s…… MORE
Plano (WBAP/KLIF) – A Plano fire truck was damaged early Sunday morning when it was hit by a vehicle while blocking traffic on the Central Expressway to protect an accident scene. The ladder truck was parked across a traffic lane with all of its emergency lights on when it was hit shortly after 2:00 am.…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A gunfight erupted Friday night in north Dallas where Rosemeade Parkway meets Midway Road. Dallas Police say a disturbance developed between two groups confronting each other at that location. Guns were pulled, and several people on each side began shooting. One man was killed in the fusillade, another wounded, and both groups…… MORE
San Antonio (WBAP/KLIF) – Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro has announced he has raised the $800,000 he said he needed to avoid dropping out of the presidential race. However, that does not guarantee him a successful campaign. Castro has still not met the minimum standards to be invited to the Democratic Presidential Primary debate later…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – 5:30 Monday morning the owner of a Dallas daycare business on Red Bud Drive called police because her security system was showing her a naked man had broken in, and was wandering around inside. The same man reportedly had done the same thing before. It took a little while, but police eventually…… MORE
