DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)-The school board president of the Prosper Independent School District has been arrested on a charge of sexual indecency with a child. Andrew Wilborn, 43, was booked into the Dallas county jail Wednesday afternoon. According to Dallas Police, officers learned in April of an incident involving a 16-year-old being inappropriately touched by Wilborn, who…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- A Dallas Police officer was shot in the foot while trying to serve an arrest warrant on a Capital Murder suspect Wednesday afternoon in West Dallas. He’s expected to be okay. According to the department’s Kristin Lowman members of the Fugitive Unit located the suspect in a car as it drove into an…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – A state lawmaker from Collin County is proposing legislation to crack down on human trafficking. House Bill 1004, proposed by Rep. Matt Shaheen of Plano would, if passed, fight human trafficking in Texas by increasing criminal penalties for individuals caught engaging a prostitute who is a victim of sex trafficking. “My goal…… MORE
Brazos County, TX (WBAP/KLID) – The family of a Texas A&M student who was killed by drunk driver four years ago has been awarded 69-million dollars in damages. A Brazo County jury determined the settlement against Pedro Puga based on his negligence in the case. On September 15, 2019 19-year old Carly Beatty was walking…… MORE
Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – Parts of Texas got hit with a record-setting snow event. Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle got up to 10 inches of the white stuff. Residents in Denton county and parts of Tarrant County saw snow fall early in the evening with large, heavy flakes sticking to the ground. In Waco, the children…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas State Rep. James Talarico is behind a bill that, if passed, would give Texas teachers a $15,000 pay bump. “House Bill 1548 would be the biggest teacher pay raise in Texas history.,” said Rep. Talarico. “This moment demands bold action and that’s what our state is known for.” The bill would…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana Home last week, according to his attorney. The documents had been “inadvertently boxed” and transported to Pence’s home at the end of the last administration,” Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week.…… MORE
Fox Business (WBAP/KLIF) – Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday that President Biden would veto a bill being pushed by House Republicans that would limit his ability to draw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The bill, the Strategic Production Response Act, calls for increasing domestic oil and gas production on federal lands to offset…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an indictment in the weekend death of an endangered vulture at the Dallas Zoo. Dallas CEO Greg Hudson said the endangered species was at lest 35-years-old when it was found dead Saturday in its habitat with a wound. He couldn’t expand on…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – University United Methodist Church in Fort Worth will hold a candlelight vigil Monday to support the Paschal High School community after two students were shot outside a restaurant Friday. According to organizers, counselors and care-givers will be on hand beginning at 3:45 p.m. at the church, a decades-long neighbor and partner…… MORE
