MESQUITE, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – The gunman in the mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada had ties to North Texas. Stephen Paddock lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada at the time of Sunday’s shooting, but public records show that prior to 2010 he was linked to several homes in…… MORE
DALLAS(WBAP/KLIF News)- The Texas State Fair is taking extra precautions to ensure safety and prevent tragic events like the mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas Sunday. Karissa Condoianis said they have added new metal detectors and have budgeted overtime for Dallas Police officers to ensure a safe environment. “While we hope to never…… MORE
DUNCANVILLE (WBAP/KLIF News) – Police in Duncanville and Dallas are working together in searching for three suspects accused of sexual assault on Saturday. The victim says she was approached by two black males while using an ATM on Wheatland Rd. in Duncanville. She was then held at gunpoint and forced to drive to a second…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Fort Worth Police officer shot a drug suspect late Saturday night. Fort Worth Police say their officer contacted the suspect as part of a drug investigation. They then got into some sort of altercation, and the suspect was shot as he tried to back his car over the officer. The…… MORE
Dallas(WBAP/KLIF)- A domestic dispute lead to a six hour police standoff in the Preston Hollow area of Dallas Saturday. Dallas Police say a father and son got into an altercation at the home at 10500 Pagewood Avenue near Benjamin Franklin Middle School, when shots were fired, with one of men eventually barricading himself inside the…… MORE
Frisco (WBAP/KLIF)- The policy by Frisco ISD to not punish student athletes who kneel during the national anthem has upset Texas State Rep. Pat Fallon. Fallon’s district covers part of the school district and said he is disheartened and shocked with the directive. “I can’t believe this. I wanna be proud of the school district and…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The task force created by the Dallas City Council to advise what should be done with the city’s various confederate monuments and markers issued its report Friday. It thinks the Robert E. Lee statue that was removed from what was then Lee Park should be loaned out or donated to a museum…… MORE
(CNN) — President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes. Price’s departure came as he’s being investigated by the department’s inspector general for using private jets for multiple government business trips, even to fly…… MORE
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
