Garland fire and police responded to the report of a person trapped in a vehicle that was surrounded by rising water. The call came in just after 2am Sunday morning. The first responders found the vehicle trapped in the rushing water at the north end of the bridge in the 1700 block of Holford road.…… MORE
DALLAS – WBAP/KLIF – Dallas Police are searching for a road rage suspect they say shot another driver early Sunday morning. It happened around 3:30, according to Dallas Police. They say one northbound vehilce cut off another on Stemmons Freeway near Royal Lane. Officials say the drivers exchanged words, the shooter, then firing several times…… MORE
Georgetown (AP) – An Austin suburb has decided it will no longer allow memorial bricks to be placed around its courthouse. It did so after several memorial bricks honoring Confederate soldiers were purchased and installed. The Austin American-Statesman reports people were allowed to buy bricks commemorating any citizen or veteran for $50 through a program…… MORE
Athens, TX (AP) – An East Texas mayor has resigned after he was arrested for online solicitation of a minor. Athens Mayor James Montgomery resigned a day after his arrest during an undercover sting operation. The Texas Department of Public Safety says Montgomery and three other suspects were arrested when they arrived at an undisclosed…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- Jim Ross has declared victory as the next Arlington Mayor, replacing term-limited Mayor Jeff Williams. Ross said a main focus is to bring even more jobs to the city. “I’m an entrepreneur first of all so I’m never satisfied with the status quo. Every place I’ve gone to whether it’s the police department,…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Mattie Parker has been elected the 45th Mayor of the City of Fort Worth. Parker, who is 37 years old, is the youngest leader of a major city. The city of Fort Worth was recently dubbed the 12th largest city in the country, nearing 1 million people. Parker said she ran for…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Six Dallas City Council seats were up for grabs and on the ballot in the June 5th runoff election. All three of the seats where the incumbent could not run because of term limits faced a run off for districts 7,14, and 4. For Dallas City Council Place 2 James Moreno took the…… MORE
Fort worth, (AP) – The brother of a Texas man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in suburban Dallas in 2008 has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping his sibling evade arrest for more than a decade. Yassein Abdulfatah Said was sentenced Friday in federal court in Fort Worth.…… MORE
New York (AP) – The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit that had accused New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility. NRA lawyers filed court papers Friday saying they were voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James. In a statement, the organization said…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Today is the day north Texans settle several run-off elections. Fort Worth voters will be choosing a new mayor. They’ll pick either Deborah Peoples or Mattie Parker to be the city’s first new mayor in a decade. Peoples was a former Democratic Party chairwoman who, if elected, would become Fort Worth’s first…… MORE
