HOUSTON (AP) – U.S. immigration authorities say an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, the second immigrant child to die in detention this month. U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the boy died shortly after midnight Tuesday. CBP says he was taken to a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he was…… MORE
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U.S. Census: Texas Leads the Nation in Population Growth in 2018
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – U.S. Census figures show Texas added more people to its population than any other state during the past year. Despite the numbers, the Austin American-Statesman reports Texas’ growth rate has slowed down. Texas added 379,128 people from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2018, a growth of 1.3 percent. The state’s…… MORE
Man Charged After Two Officers Burned in Crash
HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say a 23-year-old man has been charged with four felonies after he allegedly crashed into a patrol vehicle, injuring two Houston police officers. Cesar Collazo remained jailed Monday. He’s facing two counts of failure to stop and render aid and two counts of intoxication assault with serious bodily injury on a…… MORE
Proposed Legislation Pays Tribute to Fallen North Texas Police Officer
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF) – A portion of a North Texas Highway could soon be named after a local hero. A proposal to rename part of Central Expressway after the first Richardson Police Officer killed in the line of duty will be considered by lawmakers in the upcoming legislative session in Austin. Officer David Sherrard was shot to…… MORE
Texans Being Gifted Low Gas Prices this Holiday Season
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Americans are being gifted at the gas pump this Holiday season as low gas prices fuel record holiday travel. The average price for a gallon of regular-grade gasoline in the United Sates has dropped significantly in the past two weeks to $2.43. “This is really a boom for motorists at the expense of…… MORE
Court Says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Doing Well, Working After Surgery
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery. Kathy Arberg, court spokeswoman, said that Ginsburg remained in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sunday. No information has been released on when Ginsburg might return home. Ginsburg underwent surgery Friday to remove…… MORE
Dozens of immigrants dumped in El Paso
El Paso (WBAP/KLIF) – Reports in El Paso say dozens of would-be immigrants who have been held in federal custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were dropped off Sunday night at the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown El Paso. It is not clear who dropped them off. A number of the immigrants told El…… MORE
Corsicana Police are working on a triple homicide
Corsicana (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Corsicana, some 60 miles south of Dallas, are investigating a triple homicide. They got a call over the weekend from a woman who said her sister and her sister’s estranged husband were arguing, and he had a gun. Nancy Castillo told the 9-1-1 dispatcher she was trying at that moment…… MORE
Cowboys Clinch NFC East
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – The Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title as Dak Prescott accounted for two touchdowns and Jaylon Smith returned a fumble 69 yards for a touchdown in a 27-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Smith’s long return came after a scrambling Jameis Winston lost the ball on a blind-side…… MORE
An execution date has been set for a notorious Texas murderer
Jasper (WBAP/KLIF) – An execution date has been set for the second of three white men convicted of a notorious murder twenty years ago. John William King will be put to death by lethal injection April 24. He and two others chained a mentally disabled black man to the back of a pickup truck in…… MORE
