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
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas County is again offering to temporarily house migrant children coming into the country illegally. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says they must wait for the green light from the federal government. “These are children just like your children and my children,” Jenkins said. “You can have any feelings you want to…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is going to jail. Paul Manafort was ordered into custody Friday after a federal judge revoked his house arrest, citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges. The move by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson came after prosecutors accused Manafort and a longtime associate of witnesses…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A north Texas mother is giving her daughter life for a second time. 20 year old Jessica Gutierrez of cedar hill is receiving a kidney from her mother. Guitierrez was born with renal problems and was in stage 4 kidney failure. Methodist Dallas Medical Center is showing the operation on its Facebook…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A West Dallas couple is in federal custody on sex trafficking charges, for allegedly running the operation from their house at 3711 Morris street. Investigators say Desmond Bethany AND Bailey Hance held woman captive, assaulted them, and forced the victims to engage in sex acts for money. At least one of the…… MORE
