DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – According to the calendar, next Monday is Columbus Day but in Dallas the day will bare a different name. The Dallas City Council voted Tuesday to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. Supporters of the change said Tuesday that the new name is more appropriate when acknowledging Christopher Columbus’ journey. “Native…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House has notified the House that the Trump administration will not participate in what it is calling Democrats’ “illegitimate” impeachment probe. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone writes in a letter to House Democratic leaders that their inquiry has processed in a “manner that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Police Department identified three suspects Tuesday in the Murder of a witness in the trial for former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger. Joshua Brown was found shot to death outside his apartment two days after Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the killing of Botham Jean. Brown…… MORE
Activists with the Fort Worth NAACP are pushing the city to remove part of a mural on the Will Rogers Memorial Center that shows two African American men picking cotton. “We received the complaint to it is our responsibility from a civil rights organization to address any issue that is of concern,” said Tarrant County…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Fort Worth firefighter shared an honor with 92 others by being added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmetbsburg, Maryland. William Thompson started with the department in 1988 and served on a truck until he was side-lined with a job-related respiratory illness. He continued to serve, working as…… MORE
Plano, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – A Collin County grand jury declined to indict a former bartender who was charged with over-serving a customer before he went on a murderous rampage over two years ago. Spencer Hight was a regular customer at the Local Pub House in Plano, when on September 10, 2017 he had consumed four…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) — The union representing Southwest Airlines pilots is suing Boeing, saying its pilots are losing money because the company rushed an unsafe plane into service only to have the 737 Max grounded after two deadly crashes. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said in the lawsuit filed Monday that Boeing misled pilots and airlines…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Before heading home after the trial of Amber Guyger, the family of Botham Jean attended the formal unveiling of a portrait of him in the new Dallas office of the world-renown accounting firm where he once worked. PricewaterhouseCoopers honored Jean with the large work of art in his image in a room…… MORE
BEIJING (AP) – Chinese state broadcaster CCTV will no longer air NBA preseason games set in China after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image that supported anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong. CCTV also said Tuesday in a statement posted to the official social media account of its sports channel that it is…… MORE
CARROLLTON (WBAP/KLIF)- A Carrollton police officer is on paid administrative leave after shooting and killing a man who reportedly raised a fake gun at police. Jolene DeVito with the Carrollton Police Department said it initially started after police responded to a 911 call reporting a man passed out in his car at a local RaceTrac…… MORE
