DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced on Wednesday the creation of the Mayor’s Anti-Hate Advisory Council. The announcement comes after the FBI released a new report showing that nationwide, hate crimes hit at a 12-year high in 2020. Dallas also saw an increase last year. The new advisory council will discuss ways to…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- North Texas volunteers are doubling down responding to areas impacted by a combination of storms. Texas Baptist Men crews responding to areas in Louisiana still recovering from Hurricane Ida are facing new challenges, additional rain and flooding brought on by Tropical Storm Nicholas. “We ask all of our volunteers to be so flexible…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Businesses across the country and North Texas are trying to lure talent. In DFW Amazon said it is planning to hire around 11,000 works and 17,000 state wide. Nationwide, Amazon is planning to hire some 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers paying employees an average of $18 an hour. Competition for part time…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Fearful of former President Donald Trump’s actions in his final weeks in office, the United States’ top military officer twice assured his Chinese counterpart that the two nations would not go to war. According to a forthcoming book, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told a Chinese general that…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Recent statistics show the Dallas Police Department is chipping away at violent crime. When Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia took over as Chief earlier this year he laid out a crime reduction plan focused on more Police visibility and other factors. The Dallas City Council Public Safety Committee learned this week that…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – US Capitol Police early Monday arrested a California man who they say had multiple knives in his truck which was parked near the DNC headquarters. They say that the weapons, some of which are banned in the District of Columbia had a swastika and other White supremacist symbols painted on it. Patrol…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Nicholas has made landfall along the Texas coast, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast. The hurricane center says the category 1 storm touched down on the eastern part of the Matagorda Peninsula, about 10…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – In response to severe weather threats along the Gulf Coast due to Tropical Storm Nicholas, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas State Operations Center to increase its readiness to Level II beginning Tuesday morning. The storm is forecast to begin impacting the Texas coast on Tuesday. According to the Governor,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 6, the Damon Allen Act, into law at the Texas Pastor Council’s Safer Houston Summit on Monday. The bill recently passed the state legislature and prohibits the release on personal bond of defendants charged with a violent offense or who are charged while released on…… MORE
UPDATE: 09/12/2021 6:05 PM – Forecasters warn some areas of the Texas Gulf Coast, notably, from Port Aransas to Sargent could see near hurricane force or hurricane force winds if the storm sits over warm Gulf waters much longer. The storm is expected to bring tropical storm winds to much of the Texas Gulf coast…… MORE
