Athens, TX (AP) – An East Texas mayor has resigned after he was arrested for online solicitation of a minor. Athens Mayor James Montgomery resigned a day after his arrest during an undercover sting operation. The Texas Department of Public Safety says Montgomery and three other suspects were arrested when they arrived at an undisclosed…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- Jim Ross has declared victory as the next Arlington Mayor, replacing term-limited Mayor Jeff Williams. Ross said a main focus is to bring even more jobs to the city. “I’m an entrepreneur first of all so I’m never satisfied with the status quo. Every place I’ve gone to whether it’s the police department,…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Mattie Parker has been elected the 45th Mayor of the City of Fort Worth. Parker, who is 37 years old, is the youngest leader of a major city. The city of Fort Worth was recently dubbed the 12th largest city in the country, nearing 1 million people. Parker said she ran for…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Six Dallas City Council seats were up for grabs and on the ballot in the June 5th runoff election. All three of the seats where the incumbent could not run because of term limits faced a run off for districts 7,14, and 4. For Dallas City Council Place 2 James Moreno took the…… MORE
Fort worth, (AP) – The brother of a Texas man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in suburban Dallas in 2008 has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping his sibling evade arrest for more than a decade. Yassein Abdulfatah Said was sentenced Friday in federal court in Fort Worth.…… MORE
New York (AP) – The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit that had accused New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility. NRA lawyers filed court papers Friday saying they were voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James. In a statement, the organization said…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Today is the day north Texans settle several run-off elections. Fort Worth voters will be choosing a new mayor. They’ll pick either Deborah Peoples or Mattie Parker to be the city’s first new mayor in a decade. Peoples was a former Democratic Party chairwoman who, if elected, would become Fort Worth’s first…… MORE
MIAMI (AP) – Royal Caribbean is announcing a U.S. summer schedule for eight of its cruise ships. The cruise line said Friday that the ships will sail in July and August from Texas, Florida and Washington state. It also announced a handful of trips in Europe. Royal Caribbean said all crew members will be vaccinated…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas Republicans are pressing ahead with their push for tougher election laws after Democrats’ defiant weekend walkout stopped one of the nation’s most restrictive voting measures. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday had still not called a special legislative session but says he intends to after Democrats blocked new voting laws…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)-Faster internet speeds are ahead for Arlington, which is the first city in Texas and the largest in the nation where SiFi Networks will deploy its open-access fiber network in every neighborhood. The Arlington City Council unanimously approved an agreement that will allow SiFi Networks access to public right-of-way to build its fiber optic…… MORE
