WESLACO (WBAP/KLIF) – Former President Donald Trump joined Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and other Republican state leaders, for a border security briefing in the Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday. The former President’s trip comes as Governor Abbott pledges to complete the construction of a wall along the Texas-Mexico border. As of Wednesday, donations for that…… MORE
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction. The court said Wednesday that they found an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. The 83-year-old Cosby has served more than two years at a state prison near Philadelphia. He has vowed to serve…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Lawsuits were filed in Fort Worth and Los Angeles Tuesday, accusing the Los Angeles Angels baseball club and two former employees of negligence in the 2019 death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs. The then 27 year old Skaggs was found dead in a Southlake hotel room shortly before a scheduled game with…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott will host 45th President Donald J. Trump for a border security briefing with state officials and law enforcement on Wednesday in the Rio Grande Valley. The former President and the Governor will also tour of the unfinished border wall. Wednesday’s meeting begins with a border security briefing at 12 p.m.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A recent rise in road rage shootings is prompting local Police departments to take action. Dallas Police report at least 8 suspected road rage shootings in the last several weeks that have left the victims dead or seriously hurt. Just last week, a pregnant woman was shot while driving. Chief Eddie Garcia…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The Fort Worth Fire Department says about 50 cows were killed when the semi trailer they were loaded in crashed in Fort Worth on Sunday afternoon. The truck went off the road on West Loop 820 near Team Ranch Rad at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Spokesman Mike Drivdal told the Fort…… MORE
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Mansfield, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – An Amber Alert triggered Saturday near the in Brownsville led to an arrest early Sunday in North Texas of the 18-year-old man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl. The Mansfield Police Department released dramatic bodycam video of the arrest as officers approached the car were the two were sleeping. In the…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Supreme Court has ruled survivors and relatives of those who were killed in a 2017 mass shooting at a church cannot sue a sporting goods chain for selling the rifle used in the attack. The court threw out four lawsuits against Academy Sports and Outdoors that alleged a San Antonio…… MORE
Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – An investigation has determined that new personnel and procedures along with insufficient oversight led to reporters not witnessing the May 19 execution of condemned killer Quintin Jones. That was the state’s first execution in nearly a year. Each of the 570 executions that have been held since they resumed in 1982 has…… MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations. The punishment handed out Friday fell short of the 30 years that…… MORE
