AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Austin police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing one-month-old baby. Elijah Phillips is a black boy, 1-foot, six-inches weighing seven pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Police are looking for 30-year-old Brittany Smith and 41-year-old Brandy Galbert, both black women. Police are also looking for 37-year-old Carl Hayden, a…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Rangers will open an investigation into accusations of corruption against the state’s Republican Speaker of the House. Speaker Dennis Bonnen is accused by conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan of offering him media credentials in exchange for campaigning against a group of GOP incumbents in the 2020 primary. The House Investigations…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- As the heat index raises to triple digits, The Salvation Army reminds people about their 13 cooling stations throughout the Metroplex. Salvation Army North Texas Commander Major Jonathan Rich says they’ve seen up to 300 people a day. “When the heat gets to this level it’s really a public health risk and so…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- The Arlington City Council took its first look Tuesday at the proposed $523 million Fiscal Year 2020 operating budget, which includes a recommendation for a property tax rate reduction for the fourth year in a row. Proposals for next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, include significant investments in public safety and technology, continuation…… MORE
EL PASO (WBAP/KLIF News) – In the aftermath of the El Paso massacre where 22 people were gunned down by a man who espoused white supremacist views and told police he targeted Hispanics, the League of United Latin American Citizens is calling for action. LULAC President Domingo Garcia said Governor Greg Abbott and other Texas lawmakers…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A truckload of supplies is heading from North Texas to Laredo this week to help a church housing U.S. asylum seekers. ‘Texas Baptist Men,’ one of the state’s largest disaster relief organizations, is loading a tractor-trailer with water, clothes and other supplies that will be distributed to people legally seeking asylum in…… MORE
Arlington (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas’ new school security law requires all schools have Bleeding control kits beginning September 1, 2019 and no later than Jan 1, 2020. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports, Pantego Christian Academy in Arlington recently received over 3000 kits from Fort Worth Firefighter Charities and Cook Children’s Hospital. Several other North Texas schools…… MORE
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Beto O’Rourke is joining a number of his Democratic presidential rivals in support of a national gun licensing program. The former Texas congressman said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that states that require gun licensing, mandate universal background checks or stop the sales of assault-style weapons are saving…… MORE
Garland – Richardson, Texas (WBAP/KLIF) A Richardson teacher who was under investigation for exploitation of a child was found dead. Garland Police have not released details surrounding the death 45-year old Robert Howard Temple whose body was found Tuesday. Temple taught at J.J. Pearce High School and was allegedly involved in a relationship with a…… MORE
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Mourners gathered across the country Saturday to remember the lives of a graduate student beloved by friends, a man who died in his son’s arms and a mother who shielded her infant from gunfire. The funerals were among several being held for people who died in mass shootings last weekend in…… MORE
