AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott, on Wednesday, announced that the Texas Department of Public Safety seized over 3.1 million lethal doses of fentanyl, or about 14 pounds, during a single Operation Lone Star traffic stop in Mission. This seizure marks one of the largest single fentanyl seizures by OLS to date. “Fentanyl is…… MORE
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight. Hundreds of supporters marched Justin Pearson through Memphis…… MORE
UVALDE (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is weeks away and parents of survivors have launched a GoFundMe to get their families to Disneyland. According to the campaign’s page, the kids of the school’s room 112 “continue to fight for their recovery everyone knows…… MORE
UPDATE: Fort Worth Police announced just before 9:30 Wednesday morning that 11-year-old Keyannie Banks has been found safe. No other details have been released. FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Fort Worth Police Department is searching an 11-year-old girl who vanished Tuesday night. Keyannie Banks was last seen at 76133 Kingswood Circle just west…… MORE
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The warning comes weeks after the Drug Enforcement Administration said that “tranq’ a mix of animal tranquilizer and fentanyl – is making fentanyl, the most dangerous drug threat our country has ever faced, even deadlier.” Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The White House is issuing an unprecedented warning about xylazine, the veterinary tranquilizer increasingly found in the illicit…… MORE
NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A judge in the Eastern District of Texas sentenced a Denton man to two years in federal prison this week for sending threatening messages to the Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish civil rights organization. 34-year-old Anthony Joseph Hammer pleaded guilty on May 3, 2022 to interstate communication of…… MORE
EVERMAN (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Everman say they believe that at some time human remains were inside a shed on the property where 6 year old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez lived with his family. The boy has been missing since late last year and his family has fled to India. Police have been searching for him since…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas hair salon owner and anti-Covid lock down activist Shelley Luther is said to be fighting for her life after suffering an aneurysm earlier this month.According to a Facebook post from her husband, Luther has had multiple surgeries but has not regained consciousness after a brain aneurysm April 5th. Luther garnered attention…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a federal lawsuit against Congressman Jim Jordan on Tuesday, accusing the Republican of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” him over his indictment of former President Donald Trump. Bragg, a Democrat, is asking a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan, the chair of the…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A North Texas judge sentenced a Fort Worth father to 40 years in prison for conspiring with his son to deal methamphetamine. Both 59-year-old David Devaney Senior and 36-year-old David Devaney Junior opted for a bench trial and were found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute…… MORE
