AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s sending another 1,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. He blasted Congress on Friday as a “group of reprobates” over the growing humanitarian crisis. Abbott says the additional Guard members will assist at detention facilities and at ports of entry. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – An historic and reportedly haunted hotel in North Texas has new owners. The Baker Hotel, in Mineral Wells has been purchased by a group Dallas-based Investors based in Dallas-Fort Worth. According to WFAA-TV, the group told a large crowd of Mineral Ridge residents on Thursday, the project will bring hundreds of immediate…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police are looking for an alleged serial robber, identified as 19-year old Ashton Moore who is accused of using a fake Facebook Marketplace profile to dupe sellers of I-Phones and MacBooks. DPD Police investigator Bret Early says Moore, using a bogus profile with the name Keisha Jackson is targeting white and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – According to Federal law enforcement, the FBI received a call in 2016 about the 22-year-old man who opened fire on the Federal courthouse in Downtown Dallas Monday. A Federal official said Thursday that a member of Brian Clyde’s family called a national tip line in July, 2016 to say Clyde was suicidal and had a fascination with guns. The…… MORE
Updated story at 12:00pm: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is playing down Iran’s downing of an American drone, saying that it might have been a mistake executed by someone just being “loose and stupid.” Trump told reporters Thursday that the shoot down of the drone was a “new wrinkle” in escalating tensions between the…… MORE
Plano, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – In an exclusive interview with the Dallas Morning News, the biological parents of Clyde say they believe he wanted to be killed by police. Clyde’s father, Paul Clyde, said that he had no idea why his son shot up the federal building: “I ultimately think he didn’t want to hurt anybody,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal grand jury has indicted the man caught on camera last month abducting an 8-year-old girl in Fort Worth, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. The grand jury charged Michael Webb, 51, with kidnapping on Wednesday. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, despite filing papers…… MORE
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – President Donald Trump has jabbed at the press and poked the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016 as he kicked off his reelection campaign. It was a grievance-filled rally in Florida on Tuesday night that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A day after a gunman was shot and killed in a shootout with federal officers after he opened fire on the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas Monday morning, tensions are still high for employees who work in the building and nearby residents. Cammy Bernstein lives next door to the Cabell…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas longhorn raised in Alabama has broken the Guinness World Record! The steer named Poncho has amazing horns that measure 10 ft. 7.4 in from tip to tip which officials is wider than the Statue of Liberty’s face and twice the width of a concert grand piano Poncho’s magnificent horns have…… MORE
