DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott is defending his texting while driving ban one day after signing the legislation into law. Abbott said he’s for limited government, but the ban was needed. “Studies have shown that if you are texting while driving, you are far more dangerous than if you are under the…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Federal authorities say agents have arrested 70 people in Oklahoma and Texas as part of a three-day sweep targeting immigrants with criminal records or who were in the U.S. illegally. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a release that the sweep concluded Saturday and the vast majority of those arrested came…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Governor Greg Abbott called for a special session of the Texas Legislature on Tuesday to address sunset bills and 19 other items such including the privacy rights of women and children in public bathrooms, school finance and property taxes. The special session will begin July 18th and Abbott said the first order of business will…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A North Texas man has lost his life after flesh-eating bacteria entered a recently-inked tattoo when he went swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Nicholas Hendron is an internal medicine resident at the Parkland Health & Hospital System — he said those who have fresh tattoos or any recent wound…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Officials in Dallas say they’ve completed security upgrades to the city’s outdoor sirens that will prevent the kind of “malicious activation” that caused the emergency system to blare across the city in April. Authorities said in a statement Monday that the city’s more than 150 sirens now have “constant encrypted communication.” They…… MORE
U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn ruled Monday that Shaunkeyia Stephens may join the lawsuit filed by Odell Edwards on behalf of the estate of Jordan Edwards. The lawsuit alleges that the Balch Springs Police Department and city officials improperly trained the officer who shot the boy and should have noticed a pattern of escalating encounters…… MORE
GEORGIA (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Department of Justice charged a federal contractor in Georgia on Monday with leaking classified materials to the press. According to a DOJ release, 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner, from Augusta, Georgia, with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet. Winner, a contractor with Plubirus International…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A bomb squad was sent to the Dallas Police Department after a suspicious package was found Monday. Employees were asked to move to one side of the building until notified otherwise and citizens inside the building were asked to leave. Assistant Police Chief Randy Blankenbaker said a mail courier saw a suspicious looking…… MORE
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The FBI is joining the investigation into a multiple shooting in an industrial park in the Orlando area. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings was expected to give a briefing Monday about what happened at the warehouse in an industrial area of east Orlando. The sheriff’s office says there are multiple fatalities.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) LAKE LAVON – The body of the teen who went missing after jumping off the top of a party barge has been recovered. Emergency dispatch received a call around 3 p.m. Sunday, saying a member of a church youth group had not resurfaced after jumping into the water near Clear Creek Park just south of…… MORE
