SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas judge has dismissed substantial parts of the attorney general’s first “sanctuary cities” lawsuit that alleges the San Antonio police chief obstructed enforcement of immigration law. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit accuses Police Chief William McManus of releasing 12 immigrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally. It was a rare enforcement of Texas’ 2017 Senate…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – AT&T will add automatic fraud blocking and suspected spam-call alerts to millions of AT&T consumer lines at no charge. New AT&T Mobility consumer lines will come with the anti-robocall service. Existing AT&T customers also will have it automatically added to their accounts over the coming months. This expansion of AT&T Call Protect…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- As a tropical storm makes it way through the Gulf and could hit the Houston area in the coming days, The Texas Department of Health Services wants Texans to be prepared. Chris Van Deusen with DSHS says to make a plan in advance, decide what you’ll do in case of severe weather. No…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is abandoning his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Instead, Trump says he’s ordering every federal department and agency to provide the Commerce Department with all records it requests pertaining to the number of citizens and non-citizens in the country. Trump says he will sign…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Dallas Police confirms the body found in a Rowlett Landfill is Cedric Jackson, the missing 18 month old, who was subject to a state-wide amber alert. Major Vincent Weddington said they found the body shortly after 11am Thursday, Cedric was taken from his Aunt’s apartment on Wednesday. 27-year-old Sedrick Johnson is charged with…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – An inmate who was one of the “Texas 7” escaped prisoners blamed for the 2000 slaying of an Irving police officer faces execution this fall. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Randy Halprin is scheduled for execution Oct. 10. TDCJ spokesman Jeremy Desel, in an email Thursday to The Associated Press,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – North Texas first responders are urging residents to be safe as we enter the dog days of summer and temperatures hover around 100 degrees. The Tarrant County ambulance service Medstar reports there’s been a sharp increase in heat-related calls since July. “48 patients…eight of those patients were in serious or critical condition…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – A tropical system that’s expected to make landfall as a hurricane is prompting officials along parts of the Gulf Coast to prepare for flooding. Parts of Louisiana have had a small dose of heavy rain and flooding already with flooded streets Wednesday in New Orleans. This, while forecasters warn of what would be Tropical Storm, or eventually,…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Two men were hospitalized in serious condition after a shooting overnight at Bucks Cabaret in Fort Worth. Northwest units responded to the adult entertainment club Meacham Blvd. around 3am and found the two victims in a parking lot. Fort Worth Police spokesman Joey Pollozani says that “it appears a disturbance in…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Federal accident investigators have issued a preliminary report on the crash of a small plane that killed all 10 people on board at a Dallas-area airport. However, the National Transportation Safety Board report issued this week offers no new insights into what caused the June 30 crash of the twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350…… MORE
