DALLAS (AP) – Police in Dallas said they found a box of Molotov cocktails in a nightlife district this weekend, as cities across the country have seen some protests against police violence turn destructive. The department said Wednesday that an officer found the cardboard box of liquor bottles with rags stuffed into the mouths around…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) –Travel for this upcoming Memorial Day weekend is expected to be at an all time low despite gas prices being more than a dollar less than they were this time last year. “Even though we have these record low gas prices for Memorial Day, it’s not going to matter because travel is going…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) FORT WORTH – UPDATE: Fort Worth Police held a press conference Thursday afternoon to show body cam video of an officer involved shooting Wednesday night on Boca Raton Boulevard in East Fort Worth. Interim Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus says police were trying to locate 18-year-old Amari Malone, a person of interest in…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) — An East Texas school superintendent who wrote “You can’t count on a black quarterback” in the comment section of an online news article says he thought it was a private message. Lynn Redden is superintendent of the Onalaska Independent School District in the Piney Woods, about 75 miles north of Houston. In…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A new generation of black women is moving to take and keep a place at the forefront of the fight against racial bias. Black women have not been strangers to past protests but historians say they’ve often been overshadowed, first by white women during the suffragette movement and then by the black…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from tornadoes and other inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an hour and a half Friday night into Saturday morning until officials deactivated the system. Rocky Vaz, who heads the city’s Office of Emergency Management, says the person or…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A California man is facing possible prison time in Texas after he was arrested while carrying his supply of medical marijuana as he drove to Houston to visit his granddaughter who’s in the hospital. The Houston Chronicle reports Phillip Blanton’s case is a perfect example of the nation’s conflicting attitudes toward marijuana.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – The woman at the center of Roe v. Wade has died. Norma McCorvey was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time when she tried to get an abortion in Texas, where it was illegal except to save a woman’s life. Her case led to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – The NFL is expressing sharper warnings about a Texas “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy has now raised the prospect of Texas being passed over for future Super Bowls if state lawmakers were to an enact laws that are “discriminatory or inconsistent with NFL values.” (Copyright 2017 WBAP/KLIF News.…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Fort Worth Police say they expect an announcement Monday on what, if any disciplinary action one of their officers will receive. It has to do with an officer seen on video that went viral last month. The internal investigation into the officer’s encounter, in which Jacqueline Craig and her two daughters…… MORE
