DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Many Afghan refugees who recently re-settled in North Texas will celebrate their first American Thanksgiving on Thursday. Gateway of Grace Refugee Outreach calls the challenges of re-location immense, but insists the privilege to serve is immeasurable. “It is their first introduction into a uniquely American holiday,” said Gateway of Grace, Executive Director,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Police are searching for the man accused of sexually assaulting a woman who was walking through Katie Jackson Park on Haverwood Lane near White Rock Creek late Friday night. The victim told investigators she was walking the trials when a man wearing a dark-colored hoodie came up to her, spoke…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Patrick Mahomes and Dak Prescott are widely acknowledged to be two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Their teams, the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys, rank among the league’s highest scoring offenses and Sunday’s game at Arrowhead stadium was expected to be a shootout, but for all their firepower…… MORE
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – Police continue investigating the death of a Southwest Airlines worker who was shot near an employee parking lot at the airport in El Paso. Police say they were dispatched to the airport Friday night on an aggravated robbery call and when officers arrived, they found the body of the…… MORE
Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) – The city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, says at least 5 people are dead and more than 40 injured after an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb. The city did not release any additional information about those who died. Police have said a “person…… MORE
BUTNER, N.C. (AP) – A defense attorney says the former Oklahoma zookeeper known as “Tiger King” Joe Exotic has been transferred to a medical facility in North Carolina for federal inmates after a cancer diagnosis. Defense lawyer John Phillips says Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was taken from a federal medical center…… MORE
Undated (AP) – Researchers are calling on the public to report monarch butterfly sightings in eight states including Texas. The scientists want to hear about sightings from December 1 to March 1 in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The observations should be reported at journeynorth.org. Researchers say the information…… MORE
Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – The Supreme Court could rule as soon as Monday on the new Texas law that all but bans abortions after roughly six weeks. The court said on its website Friday that the justices plan to issue at least one opinion Monday. If so, that will be the first formal opinion of the…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Longtime U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas announced, Saturday, that she is not running for reelection after serving nearly three decades in Congress. Johnson was first elected to Congress in 1992 and is the longest-serving member from Texas. The 85 year-old was the first Black woman ever elected to public office in…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The Dallas County Justice Initiative is honoring a man falsely accused and lynched in 1910. A ceremony took place, Saturday, to memorialize Allen Brooks in downtown Dallas where the tragedy occurred. Brooks was lynched in downtown Dallas on March 3, 1910. a memorial for the man now marks where it happened. The dedicated…… MORE
