DALLAS (AP) – A paramedic shot and critically wounded while treating another wounded man during a shooting rampage in a Dallas neighborhood near Fair Park has been discharged from a hospital almost a month after the shooting. Dallas Fire-Rescue Firefighter/Paramedic Will An was discharged from Baylor University Medical Center on Wednesday after spending the month…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Children’s Health has announced it will no longer host its annual holiday parade. The organization had hosted the event for nearly 30 years. Hospital spokesman Scott Summerall telling WFAA-TV, “We have decided to move forward with other new and meaningful ways to bring cheer to families in our community this holiday…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A federal audit has heaped more criticism onto Texas’ troubled child welfare system that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional. The report published Tuesday by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says Texas potentially put foster kids in jeopardy by failing to meet investigative deadlines. The…… MORE
DALLAS, TX – Participating in this summer’s Blue Star Museums program, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, and the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station offer free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel, including National Guard and Reserve, and their…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas’ Republican House speaker says he won’t work anymore on a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people, putting the hotly debated legislation in jeopardy. House Speaker Joe Straus said Friday it was “absurd” how much time lawmakers have spent prioritizing efforts to pass a North Carolina-style law that would restrict bathroom rules…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas lawmakers have voted to allow handgun permit holders to have guns in their parked cars outside schools. The Senate gave final approval to the measure Saturday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his consideration. The vote came a day after Abbott signed into law a sharp decrease in fees…… MORE
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A Texas nurse who’s been serving a 99-year prison sentence for the fatal overdose of an infant in her care has been indicted in the death of another infant as prosecutors try to keep her behind bars. A Bexar (BAYR) County grand jury indicted Genene Jones Thursday on a murder count…… MORE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Dozens of immigrant advocates from New Mexico are heading to Texas to protest that state’s new law allowing police officers to ask about a person’s immigration status. The advocates from the New Mexico Dream Team will join immigrant activists in Texas on Monday for a demonstration against the law at the…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) — A man is dead after police say he shot his wife and took his two children on a multi-county police chase. According to Lt. Christopher Cook with the Arlington Police Department the chase began around 2:30 a.m., Thursday morning when the mother of the children texted police that she had been…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas is moving closer to making offenses against police officers punishable as hate crimes. The state Senate passed 30-1 on Tuesday a bill adding law enforcement agents to the list of groups targeted by bias or prejudice. Hate crimes against officers would include arson, criminal mischief, graffiti, unlawful restraint, assault and…… MORE
