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Dallas Police Asking for Public’s Help Identifying Sexual Assault Suspect

Dallas Police Asking for Public’s Help Identifying Sexual Assault Suspect

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect in three sexual assaults. The department said Wednesday that the latest offense happened Tuesday night on Pineland Drive in Dallas, near Lake Highlands. The other alleged crimes took place in September near the Galleria. Deputy Chief Thomas Castro says…MORE

Tarrant County Resolves Backlogged Mail-In-Ballot Request Issue

Tarrant County Resolves Backlogged Mail-In-Ballot Request Issue

FORT WORTH  (WBAP/KLIF News) – With the mid-term elections just days away, some North Texans had been complaining that they haven’t received mail-in ballots they request weeks ago. On Wednesday, the Tarrant County Elections Office said it had mailed the last batch of mail-in ballots Monday. Elections Administrator Heider Garcia said the high demand for…MORE

Big 12 Adopts Verification of Baylor Title IX Reforms

Big 12 Adopts Verification of Baylor Title IX Reforms

IRVING, Texas (AP) – The Big 12 board of directors has unanimously endorsed an independent report that says Baylor has implemented recommendations for reforming its Title IX process after a campus sexual assault scandal more than two years ago. With the board’s action Tuesday, the Big 12 will no longer withhold a portion of Baylor’s…MORE

Change the 14th Amendment by Executive Order? North Texans Chime In

Change the 14th Amendment by Executive Order? North Texans Chime In

Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – North Texans are reacting to President Trump saying he wants to sign an executive order to change the 14th amendment, taking away birth-right citizenship to immigrants. One man told our Scott Sidway that he’s “not supportive of the change, and that he doesn’t think most the country as a whole will…MORE

Cruz and O’Rourke both predicting victory

Cruz and O’Rourke both predicting victory

RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — If Texas is changing under his feet, Ted Cruz doesn’t see it. The Republican senator, locked in a closer-than-expected re-election battle, insists he’s not worried about America’s largest, reliably red state slowly turning blue. That’s despite a booming Hispanic population and top firms bringing thousands of employees from more liberal locales.…MORE

Fort Worth Police Address Ordinance for Anti Immigration Activity

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Fort Worth police address a new  city ordinance that will help stop  anti immigration banners and flyers from being put up on the city. Earlier this month a banner saying “Deport them all” was displayed on a bridge and several other anti immigration flyers. City officials say this is not considered a…MORE

Trumps Place Roses, Stones at Synagogue Memorial

Trumps Place Roses, Stones at Synagogue Memorial

PITTSBURGH (AP) – President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have placed white roses and stones from the White House on each of the 11 stars representing a victim of Saturday’s synagogue shooting. The memorial is set up outside Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue – the site of the worst attack on Jews in U.S.…MORE

Texas Lawmaker Says Portion of the Capitol Evacuated due to Suspicious Package

Texas Lawmaker Says Portion of the Capitol Evacuated due to Suspicious Package

Update at 4:15pm: The Department of Public Safety said in a statement Tuesday that a “limited area” of underground offices “was evacuated as a precautionary measure,” but later reopened when the scene “was cleared and no viable threat was discovered.”   AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A Texas state lawmaker says his office and others nearby in…MORE

Texas Dragging Death Killer, One Step Closer to Execution

Texas Dragging Death Killer, One Step Closer to Execution

HOUSTON – (WBAP/KLIF)  – A prisoner on Texas death row for dragging a black man to death behind a pickup truck more than two decades ago is one step closer to execution after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal.   The high court on Monday denied without comment 43-year-old John William King’s appeal. He…MORE