TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A new report shows Texas drops the ball when it comes to safety. According to the National Safety council, Texas received an overall grade of D. Labeled the first study of it’s kind, the report looked at more than 60 safety indicators and assigned a grade based on each states effectiveness at preventing injury and…… MORE
COMMERCE, Texas (AP) – An East Texas police chief has resigned almost two weeks after he was cleared of wrongdoing in the May 20 arrest of Miss Black Texas 2016. In a statement read to the Commerce City Council, Kerry Crews said he was resigning because of the stress and burden of the job since…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Lance Armstrong’s $100 million fraud trial is months away, yet his fight with the government and former teammate-turned-rival Floyd Landis is heating up. Armstrong wants to bar testimony and evidence, including the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that led to his downfall. Landis doesn’t want Armstrong telling jurors about his own doping…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Voting districts drawn by Texas’ Republican-controlled Legislature helped the party win nearly four more U.S. House seats than it otherwise would have in the last election, which was more than any other state, an Associated Press analysis of the results of federal and state legislative races found. Gerrymandering, in which the…… MORE
A sealed indictment has been handed down in a new case against the former Balch Springs Police Officer charged with murder in the shooting death of teenager Jordan Edwards. This indictment involves Roy Oliver allegedly pulling a gun on a woman after a car accident while he was off duty in April, just two weeks before Edwards…… 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
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a crackdown on inappropriate relationships between teachers and students. The measure requires principals and superintendents to report inappropriate teacher-student relationships or face jail time and fines up to $10,000. The teacher’s family could also lose access to the teacher’s pension. It further mandates that…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas is asking the federal government to reverse course and fund a state-run women’s health program that excludes Planned Parenthood, an apparent test of the Trump administration over abortion policy. The state is seeking a waiver to restore millions of federal Medicaid dollars that were blocked under President Barack Obama in…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at a produce warehouse in downtown Dallas Sunday morning. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, they were called to the scene shortly after 8:30 a.m. where Flames filled the American Fresh Produce warehouse at 2400 South Good Latimer Expressway. Clouds of black smoke were seen coming from the one-story warehouse. Officials say parts of…… MORE
Euless (WBAP/KLIF) – The company that’s building the new Euless’ Main Street bridge over the Airport Freeway (Highway 183) says it will be partially open by the end of June. By that Southgate Constructors says it means the replacement bridge will have two northbound and two southbound lanes open to traffic. That was the capacity…… MORE
