Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – After just over a year since bids were turned in, Amazon has reportedly zeroed in on a small handful of cities as finalists for its second headquarters and Dallas is one of them. According to the Wall Street Journal, joining Dallas on the most recent shortlist are New York City and Crystal…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O’Rourke probably have bright political futures, perhaps even plausible White House aspirations, regardless of which one wins their high-profile Texas Senate race. Around Labor Day, when polls showed onetime punk rocker O’Rourke closing in on flipping a Senate seat in the country’s largest Republican-dominated state,…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Republican congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw has criticized comedian Pete Davidson for poking fun at the eye patch he wears as a result of being injured in combat. Crenshaw was badly wounded serving in Afghanistan as a Navy Seal. Davidson suggested during the Saturday Night Live’s ‘Weekend Update” segment that Dan Crenshaw…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Memorabilia that belonged to the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has fetched more than $7.4 million at auction. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says the item that sold for the highest price, $468,500, at Saturday’s auction was Armstrong’s spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle. Also sold…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Officials say one racing fan has died and another was critically hurt after being found suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in their converted bus at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday identified the man who died as 49-year-old Cameron Hickman of Flower…… MORE
Grand Prairie (WBAP/KLIF) – Grand Prairie Police have arrested an 18 year old hit-and-run suspect for allegedly causing as accident that killed a pedestrian. Coreon Jackson was taken into custody at a motel in Mesquite. Grand Prairie investigators say he lost control of his car in the 2300 block of W.E. Roberts Street, and ran…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – More Texans early voted this year than cast ballots in all of the last mid-term election cycle. The final early vote count shows more than half a million of us went to the polls Friday as early voting ended in Texas. When all the ballots cast in just the 30 most populous…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A 49 year old Dallas man who goes to trial next month for allegedly raping a young boy is now charged with trying to hire someone to kill that boy. The would-be killer Daniel Contreras allegedly tried to hire immediately went to the police, saying he wanted nothing to do with Contreras’…… MORE
GARLAND – (WBAP/KLIF) – Garland police are looking for four suspects in an attempted robbery Friday night that left a 21 year old man dead from a gunshot wound. Garland Police lt. Pedro Barineau says the man and his uncle returned home to the 800 block of Cedar Drive when they were approached by four…… MORE
ARLINGTON- (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Rangers will introduce and announce a new team manager on Monday. The club hires Los Angeles Dodgers third base coach Chris Woodward as the club’s new manager. 42 year old Woodward has spent the last three seasons as third base and infield coach with the Dodgers, contributing to a .589…… MORE
