Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – A non-partisan debate watching party will happen tonight at SMU’s Umphrey Lee Center, from 7:30-10:30. It’s being put on by Director of Debate Ben Voth. Assistant Professor of Communications Dr. Stephanie Martin says for many of her students, this will be their first election. “We’re hoping to get 25-30 students, but if…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas City Council’s Public Safety Committee wants to know what’s being done to make the streets around DART’s West End Station safer. Leaders of the DPD, DART and El Centro police departments talked about their co-operation even before the events of 7-7-16. “DART officers, along with DPD officers, would get…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas Black Police Association is proposing a list of reforms it says are necessary to stop police brutality here in the Metroplex, and nationwide. Association President Lieutenant Thomas Glover says they can’t just sit idly by while violence is committed by police officers against civilians, and vice versa. “We believe…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF News) This weekend marks 37 years since the first hot air balloon lifted off at the Plano balloon festival. Jo Via is the executive director of the festival and she says this year is special because of the number of “shaped” balloons this year. Many Texans are leery of hot air balloons since the deadly crash in…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A clerk at a convenience store in southwest Dallas was shot and killed during an armed robbery early Friday morning.… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Activist group, the Next Generation Action Network marched again in downtown Dallas, this time to show solidarity with groups protesting the recent police shootings in Tulsa and Charlotte. Activist Corey Hughes told the crowd it’s time to stop talking and take action. “Because it seem(sic) like every day we turn on…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Fort Worth Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its K9s.… MORE
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) – Records show the man charged in the death of a North Texas college student whose body was found dismembered and burned was released from jail just days before the two were seen together.… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit today on behalf of 21 states challenging the president’s 2014 directive to the secretary of labor to update the overtime regulations by limiting workers to 40 hours a week, pay time and a half for overtime or give workers more free time. The…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) A Fort Worth home is getting a Disney makeover. The city’s Fairmount neighborhood is known for its elaborately painted Victorian-style homes, but this one takes the cake. Nina Dillmann is using 9 different colors including Icy Lemonade and Jovial Pink to make her home as bright as her new outlook on life. She…… MORE
