FAIR PARK (WBAP/KLIF News) — It is officially opening day for the 2018 State Fair of Texas. The 2018 version of the fair highlights Texas innovation, which will feature things like car concepts originating from Texas, the first ever margarita machine, and the integrated circuit, among others. “All of these amazing things, you’ll be very…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says the sexual allegations against him are a “calculated and orchestrated political hit.” California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford testified Thursday that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during a gathering while they were in high school. She says she’s 100 percent certain it was him. Kavanaugh denies the…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) –Christine Blasey Ford says she came before the Senate Judiciary Committee not because she wanted to, but because she believed it’s her civic duty. Ford spoke Thursday at a hearing on her allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Her voice cracked as she spoke to the committee, calling Kavanaugh:…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) – President Donald Trump says he’s open to changing his mind on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – if the evidence at Thursday’s Senate committee hearing is compelling. Trump says at a news conference in New York that he’ll watch the testimony from Kavanaugh and a woman who’s accusing Kavanaugh of sexual…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested 98 illegal immigrants in North Texas and Oklahoma during a 10-day enforcement action, which ended Friday. According to ICE, during the operation, deportation officers made arrests in the following 38 Texas cities and towns: Amarillo (2), Arlington (2), Athens…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – The family of a 26-year-old black man who authorities say was fatally shot by a white Dallas police officer after she mistook his apartment for her own intends to file a federal lawsuit claiming excessive use of force. Attorney Lee Merritt said Wednesday that Botham Jean’s family will name Amber Guyger and…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A former bouncer at the varsity tavern has been indicted on a sexual assault charge. The star-telegram reports, 33-year old Abdul Alhassan is accused on driving two intoxicated women home from the bar in march, then raping both women inside one of their homes. Alhassan has been free on a $20,000…… MORE
NORRISTOWN, Pa (AP) – Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced Cosby on Tuesday, five months after his conviction in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Today is National Voter Registration Day, national holiday first observed in 2012, and held on the fourth Tuesday of September. In order to vote in the November 6th Midterm elections,the last day to register to vote is October 9th. Our #NationalVoterRegistrationDay Goal is 300,000, but we think with YOUR help, we'll…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A GoFundMe campaign has been created for a North Texas woman who was partially paralyzed in a freak accident during her Hawaiian honeymoon earlier this month. Friends who went to the destination wedding told WFAA-TV that Nikki Lewis was on a boogie-board when a large wave slammed her head-first into the sand,…… MORE
