AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers are considering whether to expand DNA laws and allow samples to be taken from more defendants in criminal investigations. Existing Texas law only mandates DNA to be collected from people charged for certain felony offenses. The proposal would expand DNA collection practices to require swabs be taken from more…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas lawmakers are considering whether to expand DNA laws and allow samples to be taken from more defendants in criminal investigations. Existing Texas law only mandates DNA to be collected from people charged for specific felony offenses. It was the first DNA collection law in the country. The proposal would expand…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving her job amid growing frustration by the administration over the number of southern border crossings. Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will become the acting head of the sprawling department of…… MORE
One person was injured over the weekend when a house exploded into flames on the southwest side of Fort Worth near Benbrook. A painter was working inside the house Saturday evening when it suddenly caught fire. He was taken by air ambulance to a Fort Worth hospital for treatment of apparently serious burns. The house…… MORE
Corpus christi (wbap/klif) – A Corpus Christi woman is going to prison for selling her 7 year old son, and trying to sell two of her daughters. Esmeralda Garza was convicted on at least five felony counts. She admitted selling her son for $2,500, and trying to sell her two year old and three year…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Union Station in Dallas Saturday is renamed in honor of U S Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson. Widely recognized as a trailblazer for the city of Dallas, and a champion for transportation in Dallas, the Congresswoman joined Mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Area Rapid Transit President and Executive Director Gary Thomas in…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Vice President Mike Pence talked about the political turmoil and economic crisis in Venezuela on a visit to Texas. Pence spoke Friday in Houston at Rice University’s Baker Institute as the U.S. added two oil-sector companies and 34 vessels to a sanctions list aimed at forcing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step…… MORE
SEATTLE (AP) – A federal judge says the U.S. government must give bond hearings more quickly to immigrants caught on the border who pass initial asylum screenings. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle on Friday ordered immigration courts to conduct the bond hearings within seven days should the immigrants request one. She also says…… MORE
Frisco (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas state trooper who was shot in a Frisco apartment complex parking lot a week ago has been released from the hospital where he was treated for his injuries. Trooper Traveres Webb was shot march 29 after he tried to stop a motorist on the Dallas North Tollway. That driver fled,…… MORE
DALLAS, – WBAP/KLIF – Humana says it’s notified 522 members in texas a limited amount of personal information may have been exposed when third parties posing as physician provider groups registered onto one of it’s service providers web portal and gained some personal information using some it already possessed. Affected members are believed to be…… MORE
