Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees has decided to fast-track the renaming of four elementary schools that bear the names of confederate generals. In a normal year school names aren’t changed until summer break. For this year the board decided Thursday night that Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, William Cabell,…… MORE
COLLIN COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF) – The Collin County Sheriff’s Office is searching for an escaped inmate. Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner said that at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, 40-year-old Jason Earl Davis, escaped from the booking area of the Collin County Detention Facility. Davis was booked into the Collin County Detention Facility on a misdemeanor marijuana charge, two…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith says his former team made an effort to support all the NFL players by taking a knee before the National Anthem Monday night, but he still thinks the team was on the fence. In an interview on HOT 93.3, Smith says if you’re protesting, you pick…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A parking garage under construction in Downtown Dallas caught fire early Wednesday morning, forcing people out of an attached hotel. Guests at the downtown Hampton Inn were on the streets for a little more than two hours while more than 100 firefighters fought the three-alarm fire. “Flames were shooting up pretty…… MORE
PLANO, Texas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Recently released documents reveal new details about what happened before and during a mass shooting at Dallas Cowboys watch party in Plano, when 32-year-old Spencer Hight went to his estranged wife’s home and killed her and seven others. According to a search warrant, Hight showed a knife and handgun to employees at a…… MORE
(CNN Money) — Ford, a sponsor of the National Football League, has voiced support for NFL players exercising their right to free speech and peaceful protest after President Donald Trump urged fans to consider a boycott. “We respect individuals’ rights to express their views, even if they are not ones we share,” the company said…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — President Trump has responded to the Dallas Cowboys’ decision to kneel before Monday night’s national anthem. It was a mixed reaction from the president, who tweeted that the booing he heard when the entire Cowboys team took a knee was the loudest he’s ever heard. The booing at the NFL football…… MORE
DENTON (WBAP/KLIF News) — By the end of Tuesday, Dallas may not be the only North Texas city with a confederate monument task force. The Denton County Commissioner’s Court is looking to approve its own committee at Tuesday’s meeting. It’s in response to Denton residents speaking out at a commissioner’s court meeting last month asking…… MORE
CLEBURNE (WBAP/KLIF News) – The pilot of a small plane died Monday night after a crash in Cleburne. The single engine aircraft, a Light Sport category Quicksilver GT, went down just outside of an apartment complex on the north side of the city around 5:30 pm. The complex is in the vicinity of Blackwood Air Park.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Cowboys, including owner Jerry Jones, briefly took a knee prior to the singing of the National Anthem Monday night in Phoenix for Monday Night Football against the Cardinals. The team walked to midfield for the brief demonstration and then walked back to the sidelines, locked arms and stood during the performance…… MORE
