AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the new Texas Tactical Border Force to the Texas-Mexico border to respond to the growing border crisis at Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin on Monday. With Title 42 expiring this Thursday, Governor Abbott is enhancing Texas’ border security efforts with the tactical deployment…… MORE
PLANO (WBAP/KLIF News ) – North Texans who are struggling mentally or emotionally with the deadly mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets Mall are being offered free counseling. Eight people were killed and seven others injured when a gunman opened fire Saturday afternoon. He was shot and killed by an Allen police officer who…… MORE
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The driver of an SUV that crashed into a crowd of people at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight, has been charged with manslaughter, police said Monday. Authorities believe driver George Alvarez, 34, of Brownsville, lost control after running a red light Sunday morning and plowed into a crowd…… MORE
FRISCO (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Frisco Police Department investigating a social media post that made threats of possible violence at several middle school campuses within Frisco ISD on Monday. The threat came in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets and a shots-fired scare at Stonebriar Mall. Nine people, including…… MORE
ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF) – A memorial is growing on the edge of Allen Premium Outlets in Allen following Saturday’s mass shooting that left 9 people, including the shooter dead. According to Police, the gunman opened fire just after 3:30 Saturday afternoon. He’s been identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia of Dallas. The FBI searched what’s believed to…… MORE
ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF) – The shooter in the mass killings at the Premium Outlet mall in Allen is being identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia. Garcia reportedly lived in a motel at the time of Saturday’s shooting. The FBI searched a home believed to be his parent’s house in Dallas. Another Dallas location was also searched in…… MORE
ALLEN (WBAP/KLIF) – Reaction is pouring in following Saturday’s mass shooting in Collin County. According to Allen Police, a shooter killed 8 people, and injured at least 7 others, after opening firing at the outdoor mall Saturday afternoon while thousands of shoppers browsed the outlet stores. Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement on the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson enters a second-term after running uncontested in Saturday’s May 6 municipal election. It’s not often that the Dallas Mayor runs without an opponent. “That hasn’t happened in this city since 1967,” Mayor Johnson toLD WBAP’s Saturday Morning News. “And from what I understand, it doesn’t happen very often…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — King Charles III was crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey, receiving the bejeweled St. Edward’s Crown in a ceremony built on ancient tradition at a time when the monarchy is striving to remain relevant in a fractured modern Britain. Trumpets sounded inside the medieval abbey and the congregation shouted “God save the king!” at…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Dallas Police were forced to shoot an armed man along a Southeast Dallas street. Just after 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning, police received calls of a man carrying a gun in what officers describe as an armed encounter. As officer’s arrived, they found a man with a gun along a street near Liberty Park,…… MORE
