DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A Dallas City Council member is receiving threats and angry messages after voting to remove the Robert E. Lee statue from Lee Park. Dallas Police have investigated several voice mail messages left on Jennifer Staubach-Gates’ office phone. Gates said that threats and negative feedback come with the job, but said she has…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Amber Alert for a missing Richardson toddler has been discontinued but police say they’re still searching for three-year-old Sherin Mathews. She vanished after her father put her outside around three a.m. on Saturday as punishment for not finishing her milk. Wesley Mathews, Sherin’s father, was arrested on child endangerment charges and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says if a player disrespects the flag, he won’t play. He was asked again about players kneeling during the national anthem after Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a game in Indianapolis Sunday after a handful of Indianapolis Colts protested during the anthem. “If we…… MORE
This story was updated Monday, October 9 at 5:00am. RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF) — Richardson police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing three year old girl, described as developmentally disabled with limited verbal communication skills. Sherin Mathews was last seen in the backyard of the family home about 3:00 Saturday morning. She wasn’t reported missing until…… MORE
Washington, DC (WBAP/KLIF) – The Energy Department says Energy Secretary and former Texas Governor Rick Perry has taken at least six trips on government or private planes at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $56,000. The Energy Department told the U.S. House Oversight Committee Perry took government planes to visit the Hanford nuclear site in…… MORE
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF News) – A registered sex offender who allegedly targeted underage girls in Grapevine and Plano has been arrested. The Grapevine Police Department’s Amanda McNew said Irving Police arrested 38-year-old Kenneth Dewayne Roblez on a parole violation warrant in the 3500 block of North Belt Line Road. The Irving officers identified Roblez based on a Grapevine…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A man accused of capital murder in 2015 has been released. Anthony Michael Sanders, 33, of Watauga has been in jail awaiting trial for nearly a year and a half after being accused of suffocating his 2-year-old daughter Ellie Mae Sanders. Now, investigators have learned that Sanders then 5-year-old son was actually…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The wives of former NFL players met with Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall and Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson on Wednesday in hopes of moving past police protests and on to real solutions. According to our media partners WFAA-TV, the NFL wives plan on having similar meetings in all 32…… MORE
GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Grapevine Police Department said the man who allegedly made lewd comments toward two young girls inside a local Target store is believed to be linked to similar crimes in Plano. “We have been in contact with law enforcement in Plano. They do have similar incidents to ours and we do believe…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The attorney for the woman who was dragged off of a Southwest Airlines flight last week said his client was racially profiled. Anila Daulatzai is a Muslim professor at Harvard and was traveling to Los Angeles on September 26th, when she was asked to get off the place after telling the crew about…… MORE
