(CNN) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, the transition team announced Tuesday, setting up a heated Senate confirmation battle and signaling a desire to ease Washington’s estrangement with Russia. Like Trump, Tillerson, 64, has no formal foreign policy experience, but has built close relationships with…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE (WBAP/KLIF)- Crews with the Texas Department of Transportation have taken apart and moved a large Texas shaped flag made of artificial turf that’s been in the median at Interstate 20 and Spur 408 in Grand Prairie since 2010. Ryan LaFontaine with TXDOT says drivers were stopping on the side of the roadway to…… MORE
Keller (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Keller Police Department is one of the first in the nation to adopt a GPS system for dispatching 911 calls. Communications Director Warren Dudley says the Siren GPS system, which is nicknamed “Uber for 911”, is a lot more accurate than the traditional cellphone call through a tower. “When somebody…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Three persons of interest in a late November homicide in Dallas are being held in the Cook County, Nevada jail on capital murder charges. 21-year old Rachel Sophia Burden, 21-year old Jessica Yasmyn Ontiveros, and 24-year old Anthony Rashad George were tracked to Las Vegas, and arrested by US Marshals. “On…… MORE
KILLEEN (WBAP/KLIF News) – A school in Killeen is in trouble with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a Charlie Brown Christmas poster.… MORE
The City of Dallas has a new man at the helm. Mayor Mike Rawlings has announced the appoinment of T.C. Broadnax as the new Dallas City Manager. Broadnax comes to Big D from Tacoma, Washington where he’s been the City Manager since 2012. But Broadnax is not new to Texas. He previously spent five years…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – It’s no secret that Denton and Collin Counties are growing like wildfire, but Mayor Mike Rawlings says Dallas has all of them beat. At his State of the City Address, he told the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce that people, and the companies they work for, believe in the city. “Everybody…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System mess…it’s a complicated problem. But there’s a new website to help you understand the situation, and the City’s proposed solution. Dallas Chief Financial Officer Elizabeth Reich says savethepension.com takes you back to the system’s beginnings. “Where you can learn about the history of the…… MORE
Ft. Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport expects more than three million passengers to come through the airport around Christmas. Across the country, air travel is expected to increase about three and a half percent from last year. “These are the folks who are a little unfamiliar with the airport, and they get…… MORE
WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Who says nothing happens in a lame duck session?… MORE
