DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas Police Officer was hospitalized Tuesday after being hit by a DART train, according to the Dallas Police Department. “At approximately 12:40 p.m., DART Police responded to a report of a northbound Green Line light-rail vehicle making contact with an adult male as it was pulling into the Pearl/Arts District Station,”…… MORE
IOWA (WBAP/KLIF) — Democratic Presidential Candidate Julian Castro is taking his fight with President Trump from Twitter to Fox News. His campaign purchased three spots on “Fox and Friends” that’ll air Wednesday. Tuesday morning, the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary debuted the new commercial on Twitter. In it, he flatly blames the President for the…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The judge in former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s murder case says she’ll wait before deciding if it would be necessary to move the trial out of Dallas. In a court order filed Monday, State District Judge Tammy Kemp said the decision should not come until after prospective jurors have been questioned…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Rangers will open an investigation into accusations of corruption against the state’s Republican Speaker of the House. Speaker Dennis Bonnen is accused by conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan of offering him media credentials in exchange for campaigning against a group of GOP incumbents in the 2020 primary. The House Investigations…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas’ new school security law requires all schools have Bleeding control kits beginning September 1, 2019 and no later than Jan 1, 2020. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports, Pantego Christian Academy in Arlington recently received over 3000 kits from Fort Worth Firefighter Charities and Cook Children’s Hospital. Several other North Texas schools…… MORE
Garland – Richardson, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) A Richardson teacher who was under investigation for exploitation of a child was found dead. Garland Police have not released details surrounding the death 45-year old Robert Howard Temple whose body was found Tuesday. Temple taught at J.J. Pearce High School and was allegedly involved in a relationship with a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A well known business owner in Southeast Dallas is dead, but his killer allegedly still on the run. Dallas police say a woman came into ‘Kingz of Cutz’ Barber Shop on Grand Avenue (Al Lipscomb Way) this past Saturday before lunch, and shot the owner, 42 year old Fredrick Myers. Here’s…… MORE
COOL, Texas (AP) – U.S. flags and patriotic songs helped honor an Air Force pilot from Texas whose plane was shot down in 1967 during the Vietnam War and his remains identified earlier this year. Col. Roy Knight Jr. was remembered Saturday during services in the town of Cool, near Weatherford, about 100 miles (161…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump administration officials are defending last week’s mass immigration raids in Mississippi, including emotional footage of a girl pleading with authorities to let her father go. Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan acknowledged that video of the 11-year-old sobbing was “emotional” but says the girl was quickly reunited with her…… MORE
IRVING – WBAP/KLIF – Irving police report a 16 year old boy who was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in critical condition after an attack in the back yard of a residence by three dogs; has now died. Officers report they arrived in response to a call for help to find three dogs attacking the…… MORE
