(WBAP/KLIF) – President Trump announced Wednesday, through a series of tweets, that transgender people will be barred from serving in any capacity in the military. President Trump said the military would not allow or accept transgender service members, reversing a policy begun by the Obama administration. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Five people wanted by the FBI for targeting jewelry salesmen in North Texas have been arrested. US Attorney John Parker’s office says the five are believed to be responsible for the death of a traveling jewelry salesman last year after they followed him from Richardson to Euless and eventually beat him.…… MORE
AUSTIN (AP) – A Texas version of a North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people has again passed the state Senate but still faces obstacles. The vote Tuesday came a week into a special legislative session that Republican Governor Greg Abbott called after GOP leaders deadlocked in May over efforts to restrict which bathrooms transgender…… MORE
WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News/CNN) – The Senate will begin to debate the GOP healthcare bill that seeks to overhaul Obamacare after Republicans received the necessary votes to move forward. Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote, making the count 51-50. Proud to break Senate tie to open debate to rescue Americans from failed Obamacare. Thanks to @POTUS, this…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Police are looking for a man accused of trying to grab two separate women at a Far North Dallas apartment complex. Dallas Police say the incidents happened Friday night about 15 minutes apart from each other at the Landera Apartments off Trinity Mills sand Midway. One woman says she was approached…… MORE
San Antonio (WBAP/KLIF News) – The driver of the truck carrying dozens of illegal immigrants made his first court appearance Monday. James Mathew Bradley, 60, has been charged with transporting immigrants who are in the country illegally. In the criminal complaint, an agent with Homeland Security Investigations wrote Bradley told investigators he did not know…… MORE
SAN ANTONIO (WBAP/KLIF News) — Ten people have died after a semi-truck parked outside a San Antonio Wal-Mart was found with nearly 40 people in the back being smuggled into Texas. Thirty others have been hospitalized for heat stroke and dehydration, with temperatures in the 100’s all weekend. San Antonio Police say a surveillance video at…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Police have arrested a man who admits to his involvement in numerous sexual assaults. 23-year-old Sean Padilla is charged for the Aggravated Sexual Assault offense that occurred on July 18, in the 2900 block of Kendale Drive. Padilla was transported to the Dallas Police Department Headquarters and was interviewed. During the interview…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee has started hearings on two bills that would restrict transgender bathroom use. Republican Lois Kolkhorst introduced the measures. One would require people to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their birth certificate in schools and government buildings; the other would prevent school districts…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF News/CNN) — A Nevada parole board granted O.J. Simpson parole Thursday. “You are low risk to re-offend on our guidelines,” parole board member Tony Corda said. Simpson was sentenced in 2008 to up to 33 years in prison for kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. He could be released as early…… MORE
