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
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall has fired Officer Amber Guyger following a controversial shooting earlier this month. Guyger admits to shooting Botham Jean on September 6th, after she said she accidentally went into his apartment at the Southside at Lamar Flats thinking it was hers. The Texas Rangers and the Dallas County…… MORE
UPDATED: 9/24/18 9:32AM Bellmead, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Bellmead Police say an Amber alert for an 11-year old has been discontinued. The child has been found safe. — Original post: Bellmead, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – An Amber alert is in effect for an 11-year-old girl last seen in Bellmead, just north of Waco. Bellmead Police believe 11-year-old…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Arlington Bowie head football coach Danny DeArman who made a daring water rescue Saturday during flooding rains. A woman’s car had stalled out in high water the I-30 service road near Caddo Mills. DeArman waded, then swam to the woman’s car. At one point during the current from the rushing floodwaters swept…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – In connection with one of Fort Worth’s most notable cold cases, over 100 onlookers Awatched Saturday as divers pulled submerged cars out of Benbrook Lake. Investigators continue looking for clues into the 1974 disappearance of 3 girls who went missing from the then Seminary South Shopping Center on South Freeway. One…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Authorities say bananas donated to a Texas prison turned out to have nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden inside the boxes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says in a Facebook post that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated because they were already ripe. The…… MORE
