WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep families together at the southern border, saying at the White House that he doesn’t like the sight of children being separated from their families. He said, “We are keeping families together.” But the president added the “zero tolerance” policy will continue. Vice…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — Some of the children being separated from their families at the Texas-Mexico border are being given refuge in Fort Worth. Catholic Charities Fort Worth is housing a handful of the kids, though its unknown exactly how many that is. The non-profit has 26 beds available for refugees. According to WFAA…… MORE
MESQUITE (WBAP/KLIF) – The Mesquite City Council amended the City’s Code to provide a stricter enforcement of parties with ten or more attendees that become a nuisance for neighbors. The new ordinance allows police officers to shut down a party if there is evidence of excessive noise, vehicles blocking the street or other actions of…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF) – A program started by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is operating in Fort Worth. One of Secretary Carson’s signature initiatives, EnVision Centers offers HUD-assisted families access to support services that can help them achieve self-sufficiency, thereby making scarce federal resources more readily available to a greater number of…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he is introducing emergency legislation intended to keep migrant families together. Cruz has released a statement saying: “All Americans are rightly horrified by the images we are seeing on the news, children in tears pulled away from their mothers and fathers. This must stop. Now.” The Republican…… MORE
Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – A 27 year old Sunnyvale resident has been arrested for a road rage incident about two weeks ago in Mesquite. According to police Corey Graham became enraged while following a group of motorcyclists on Highway 80. When they pulled over to the shoulder he did too. They argued, then Graham got back…… MORE
Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – Mesquite Police have arrested two suspects in a double murder that occurred a week ago. Cassius Williams and Rozman Shannon, Jr are charged with the killings of two teenagers who were shot to death in the cab of a red pickup truck. Mesquite Police describe the killings as a drug robbery, saying…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The next legislative session is months away, but that did not stop Texas Republicans from releasing a list of things they want next year’s legislature to consider. In its updated platform the Texas Republican Party specifically wants the 2019 state legislature to consider hundreds of items. Among them; the state’s Republicans…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE (WBAP/KLIF) – The Grand Prairie Police Department is actively investigating an incident involving a police impersonator who pulled a woman over and sexually assaulted her. According to Grand Prairie Police, a woman was pulled over in the 4000 block of East Jefferson early Saturday morning by what was described as a black SUV equipped with…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Former first lady Laura Bush is calling a new zero tolerance immigration policy from the Trump Administration cruel and immoral. Bush wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, saying she appreciates the need to enforce international boundaries, but that the government should not be in the business of “warehousing children…… MORE
