(WBAP/KLIF News) – The Collin County Sheriff’s Office opened it’s new 911 dispatch center Wednesday morning. It’s a project that cost the county almost $900,000. Kelley Stone is with the sheriff’s office and said the upgrade was needed because dispatchers routinely work in high pressure situations. “You just have to have an environment where your…… MORE
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Irving Elementary School Music Teacher Accused of Molesting Student
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF News) – Irving Police are asking parents to talk with their children about a Britain Elementary School music teacher that is facing child abuse charges related to a student. Investigators said 50-year-old Edmund Charles Barrera is charged with second-degree felony child abuse and more charges could be filed. The department’s James McClelland said a…… MORE
Ask your baby for permission to change his/her diaper.
Sure, we have wars going on yet politics is driving the main stream media reports. But what’s got the world chattering this Friday is the Aussie woman who says we should ask our infants for permission to change their diapers. She’s a nut. Maybe, but Dave Williams has a slightly different take. Listen here… Just…… MORE
Kushner and Cornyn visit North Texas to press prison reforms
WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) — President Trump’s son-in-law, White House adviser Jared Kushner, will arrive in North Texas Friday to promote new legislation aimed at revamping the national correctional system. In what’s being called a surprising bipartisan agreement a congressional committee has approved a bill to reduce the rate of repeat offenders by creating rehabilitation programs…… MORE
Google is perfecting artificial voice; can you hear the difference?
We’re all annoyed by phony recorded voices but imagine how disconcerting it will be to talk with robots who sound like humans! Google is doing just that.… MORE
Fort Worth woman arrested in death of 2-year-old
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A 27-year-old Fort Worth woman has been arrested in the death of her girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, who died from blunt force trauma to the head and abdomen in March. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Zahira Lavon Hill was arrested Monday on a capital murder warrant in the death of Saiden Levi…… MORE
Dozens with ties to supremacist gangs arrested in Texas
DALLAS (AP) — Federal authorities say dozens of people associated with white-supremacist gangs in Texas have been indicted on drug trafficking charges, including four accused in a kidnapping in which a hatchet was used to chop off a victim’s finger. Authorities said Monday that 57 people are charged. Forty-two were arrested last week, nine people…… MORE
The accused accomplice in a notorious Texas murder pleads guilty
Alpine (WBAP/KLIF) – The west Texas man accused of being involved in the 2016 murder of college student Zuzu Verk has pleaded guilty to the charge. The Brewster County Sheriff’s office says 26 year old entered a nolo contendere plea to a charge of helping hide Verk’s body. That plea actually means “no contest,” but…… MORE
Dirk Says He’ll Be Back On The Court For a Record 21st Season
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) Dallas Mavericks Forward Dirk Nowitzki says he’ll be back on the court for at least one more season. He made the announcement Tuesday. It’ll be his 21st year playing with the same team, a record in the NBA. Nowitzki had surgery on his left ankle last week in the hopes he’ll be healed…… MORE
‘Don’t Drive Intexticated!’ – AAA Nationwide Campaign
(WBAP/KLIF) – “Don’t Drive Intoxicated – Don’t Drive Intexticated” is the new theme for the nationwide campaign by AAA. Daniel Armbruster is with AAA Texas/New Mexico and says the name is supposed to catch the communities attention to keep the conversation going: “That is the goal…this was created to make distracted driving socially unacceptable. It targets drivers…… MORE
