AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas is dedicating almost a billion dollars to help secure the border. Despite the funding, Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues to stress that the responsibility of securing the border shouldn’t fall on his state. Abbott posted a video to twitter Monday, outlining how money will be spent to secure the border. He called…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A day after a gunman was shot and killed in a shootout with federal officers after he opened fire on the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas Monday morning, tensions are still high for employees who work in the building and nearby residents. Cammy Bernstein lives next door to the Cabell…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas longhorn raised in Alabama has broken the Guinness World Record! The steer named Poncho has amazing horns that measure 10 ft. 7.4 in from tip to tip which officials is wider than the Statue of Liberty’s face and twice the width of a concert grand piano Poncho’s magnificent horns have…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – An armed man was critically shot by an Mansfield police officer overnight. Police say the man was a customer at an IHOP around 2:30 this morning when he began waving a gun around. Other customers and restaurant employees were safely evacuated out the back door. Police say the man also followed behind,…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is threatening to remove millions of people in the country illegally. In a late-night tweet Monday, Trump says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin the removal process next week. He tells his Twitter followers, “They will be removed as fast as they come in.” Next week ICE will…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) A one year old male giraffe named after Dallas Cowboy Tightend Jason Witten passed away suddenly Monday morning at the Dallas Zoo. Zoo officials say Witten was receiving a routine physical exam under anesthesia when he stopped breaking. Efforts to revive him were not successful. A statement on the zoo’s facebook page read …… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- Crews are clearing debris from an Arlington neighborhood where strong winds ripped through the DFW Metroplex Sunday afternoon. The National Weather Service confirms an EF-1 Tornado touched down in Arlington with 95 mph winds. Ashley Zemanek lives on Andrews Street, just north of I-30, she said her home is completely un-livable and is now…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The City of Dallas has a new mayor. Eric Johnson was sworn as mayor along with several city council members at the Winspear Opera House Monday morning. Johnson won a runoff election against Dallas city councilman Scott Griggs earlier this month. The former state representative defeated Griggs by getting 55 percent…… MORE
UPDATED 11:49AM DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The FBI has identified the shooting suspect as 22-year-old Brian Isaack Clyde. Police said Clyde allegedly exchanged gunfire with federal officers and was shot. He later died of his injuries. UPDATED 10:33AM Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police say there was an exchange of gunfire between a suspect and federal officers at…… MORE
An Oncor crew is on the scene outside a home on Waterford Street in Irving, where one of their contractor’s cranes almost toppled over onto a house in the gated community overnight. Tony Harvey with Irving Fire says that “Oncor was working on a transformer located behind the houses on Waterford when the pavement gave…… MORE
