Plano (WBAP/KLIF) – Need a passport quickly? Plano based FedEx Corp has teamed up with RushMyPassport to offer expedited U.S. passport services nationwide. It can take anywhere from six to eight weeks for the U.S. State Department to process an application. Now, travelers can get passport processing or renewals as quickly as the next day.…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The man accused of kidnapping an eight-year-old from Fort Worth more than a month ago may not be mentally competent enough to stand trial. Attorneys for Michael Webb filed a motion to have him moved from jail so he can be given a mental exam within the next 30 days. The…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan on Sunday defended conditions at U.S. Border Patrol stations following reports of crowded and unsanitary conditions that have heightened debate about President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, a trademark issue for his reelection campaign. “It’s an extraordinarily challenging situation,” McAleenan told ABC’s “This Week.” The Homeland Security…… MORE
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – An assistant professor at Louisiana State University’s library school has received a $391,000 grant to find the best ways to preserve the digital archives of veterans and active-duty service members. Edward Benoit (BEN-wah) III already has studied how today’s military members and veterans are documenting their service, since most no…… MORE
ATLANTA (AP) – Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are marking their 73rd wedding anniversary, approaching George and Barbara Bush as the longest-married presidential couple in U.S. history. The Carters married July 7, 1946, in a Methodist church in their hometown of Plains, Georgia, when he was 21 and she was 18. The…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Officials are set to unveil a sculpture honoring five police officers killed in a sniper attack in downtown Dallas three years ago. Sunday marks three years since Micah Johnson opened fire on a peaceful protest. The Army veteran killed four Dallas police officers and one transit officer. Authorities killed Johnson using a…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A young boy was run down and killed by a hit and run driver Saturday afternoon in south Dallas. 12 year old Ricky Tave was one of a group of boys collecting donations for their youth baseball team at Ledbetter Drive and Vista Wood Boulevard. He stepped into the street, and was…… MORE
FORT WORTH – It’s been a few weeks delayed with constant cold and cool fronts moving into North Texas, bringing violent winds and torrential rainfall, but the terrible Texas heat is finally with us. National Weather Service meteorologist Patricia Sanchez says though we’ve been feeling on and off heat index values in excess of 100F…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Researchers with the Plain View Project identified nearly 200 Dallas Police Officers for allegedly posting hundreds of bigoted or violent posts on social media. The project research lead to a preliminary Internal Affairs investigation. According to a DPD blog, the PVP identified 170 former and current officers who they deemed to have…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Garland Police & Fire, responded to a gas leak just after 5:30 Saturday morning, on North Garland Road. Officials report hearing the sound of gas coming from a regulator station, in front of one of the businesses, when they arrived. Police believed that several test points were intentionally damaged. Officers later…… MORE
