WASHINGTON (AP) – Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving his job next month, ending a two-year tenure marked by President Donald Trump’s clashes with intelligence officials. Trump tweeted Sunday that the nation’s top intelligence official would step aside on Aug. 15, and that he would nominate a Texas congressman, Republican John Ratcliffe, to…… MORE
IRVING – WBAP/KLIF – Irving police say the mother of a baby believed born inside the restroom of an Applebee’s Restaurant on North Belt Line Road Friday night could face several possible charges, including murder, if an autopsy determines the child was born alive before being left in a restroom garbage can. Irving Police are…… MORE
HONOLULU (AP) – Southwest Airlines is preparing to resume expansion of its service to Hawaii. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday that the carrier’s expansion plans were delayed due to a lack of available aircraft. The aircraft limitation was a result of a Federal Aviation Administration order in March to ground Boeing 737 Max planes following…… MORE
IRVING- WBAP/KLIF – Irving Police are asking for public tips to find the mother of a baby they believe was born in an Applebee’s Restaurant bathroom and then placed in a restroom garbage can to die. Police believe the baby’s mother left the restaurant about half an hour before restaurant personnel were cleaning the bathroom…… MORE
By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. By a 5 to 4 vote, Supreme Court justices Friday voted to allow the White House to use approximately $2.5 billion dollars in Defense Department money to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. The High Court says it will lift a freeze on the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The apartment complex condemned following a crane collapse last month now has clearance to remove the crane from the building. Officials with OSHA said Thursday the investigation into the collapse that left one woman dead, and more than 500 residents displaced, has reached a point where the crane can be removed. “OSHA…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says it didn’t know that an altered presidential seal featuring a two-headed eagle clutching golf clubs would be displayed at a speech by President Donald Trump this week. Spokesman Judd Deere says officials “never saw the seal” before it was projected on a screen behind Trump as he was…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas teen who has been linked to multiple rapes and murders in two states will be tried as an adult in the death of 23-year-old Maria Ezquerro (pictured right) whose body was found in her Galleria-area apartment last November. The slain woman’s family was in juvenile court Wednesday when 16-year old…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office filed papers on Wednesday seeking the death penalty against accused serial killer, Billy Chemirmir. This is according to the Dallas County court records. Chemirmir has been in custody since March 2018. He’s charged in the deaths of 12 elderly women, whose jewelry along with other valuables…… MORE
Update at 3:15pm: Former special counsel Robert Mueller has finished testifying before Congress. Mueller testified before two committees on Wednesday for more than six hours on his 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mueller said the interference was not a hoax, and it was not an isolated episode. He warned that there…… MORE
