KERENS, Texas (AP) – A North Texas police chief is free on bond after being arrested for failing to appear in court and testify in a criminal case. The Corsicana Daily Sun reports Kerens Police Chief Wesley Bryan Miers was taken into custody after not testifying in the case of Ronnie Raindle, accused of evading…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – A North Texas man who prosecutors say brutally beat his 11-week-old German Shepherd puppy has been sentenced to five years in prison. Deric Berquist was sentenced on Friday after being convicted of animal cruelty. Prosecutors with the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office say Berquist was captured savagely beating, punching, choking…… MORE
Bossier, LA (WBAP/KLIF) – A wanted Dallas murder suspect has been arrested in Louisiana. Demetrius Thompson was arrested at his home in Minden, Louisiana a few days after a capital murder warrant was returned against him in Dallas. Thompson is believed to have killed Eric Moore in late May, 2018 during a night of drinking…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas Police officer has been arrested for the second time in less than three months. Senior Corporal Jeremy Courson was arrested Friday for allegedly violating a protective court order. Courson’s wife, who filed for divorce in October, got the court order three months ago after Courson was arrested in Johnson County…… MORE
By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF, Dallas, Texas. DALLAS – FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – President Trump appeared on WBAP’s Westwood One Mark Levin’s Show Friday evening, renewing his threat to shut down the border with Mexico if numbers of would-be immigrants from south of the border do not slow in numbers. In an easy going…… MORE
DENTON – (WBAP/KLIF) – Metroplex activist Dominque Alexander is arrested and locked up Friday in Denton County, while at a hearing on the same case. Alexander is charged with felony theft of property between $2500 and $30,00; in a case filed in May of 2016. A warrant for arrest was issued Wednesday; motion filed a…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says gun owners should get ready to vote for Republicans. He told the National Rifle Association Friday that his political opponents “want to take away your guns. You better get out there and vote.” He spoke at the gun rights group’s annual convention for the third year in a…… MORE
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF) – A former Irving elementary school music teacher is facing more charges in a child sex abuse investigation. Charles Barrera was fired from Lee Britain Elementary School last year after being charged with Indecency with a Child. Now, Barrera is facing similar charges in a separate case involving a 9-year-old. Police said Friday…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.2% annual rate in the first three months of the year, a far better outcome than expected, overcoming a host of headwinds including global weakness, rising trade tensions and a partial government shutdown. The advance in the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – A Tarrant County Police Officer is walking for a good cause. North Richland Hills Police Sergeant Brent Wright is embarking on a “walk of reflection.” Wright will trek 163 miles on foot from DFW to the state Capitol in Austin, representing the 163 Police Officers killed in the line of duty in 2018.…… MORE
