AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – In conjunction with National School Bus Safety Week, the Texas Department of Public Safety is urging Texans to comply with laws prohibiting drivers from passing stopped school buses. DPS Troopers across the state will be riding and/or following school buses October 22-26 to ensure that drivers are obeying school bus laws. “DPS…… MORE
Migrants Heading Toward U.S. form Lines on Border Bridge to Mexico
TECUN UMAN Guatemala (AP) – The head of Mexico’s federal police says that they have achieved their first objective of preventing a violent breach of the border by some 3,000 migrants trying to enter from Guatemala. Manelich Castilla told Foro TV the migrants will enter in an orderly fashion. “It will be under the conditions…… MORE
Dallas Museum to Honor Apollo Astronaut over 50th Anniversary of His Flight
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A four-year long look back at NASA’s historic Apollo flights begins this weekend in Dallas. The Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas Love Field will host the Apollo 7 50th Anniversary Gala Saturday and honor the only living crew member of that flight. Museum CEO Cheryl Sutterfield-Jones says several Apollo-era and Space…… MORE
Klyde Warren Park Completion Project Announced
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – An expansion of Klyde Warren Park was announced Friday by VisitDallas and The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. The estimated $76 million project will add 1.2 acres over Woodall Rodgers Freeway, just west of St. Paul Street. This land is planned to be used for a 20,000-square-foot pavilion that will house the state-of-the-art VisitDallas…… MORE
League of Women Voters Dallas Urging Texans to Vote in Mid-Term Election
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Early voting for the midterm elections starts next Monday and the League of Women Voters Dallas wants North Texans to cast their ballots. The League’s Rebecca Acuna said in the last midterm election, only 28.5 percent of registered Texas voters went to the polls. She said this year could be different because…… MORE
Fort Worth Police Chief Reportedly Leaving Post to Run the Baltimore PD
UPDATE: 10:43AM Fort Worth, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – In an email to our news department, the Fort Worth Police Department’s Public Information Office said: “At this time Chief Fitzgerald has not accepted any job offer.” And a tweet from the Baltimore mayor’s office says the the search continues. Spokesperson for office of @MayorPugh50 says selection process…… MORE
Plano ISD to do Random Metal Detector Searches of Students
Plano, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – Plano ISD parents were notified in an email this week that the district will soon begin conducting random metal detector searches of middle and high school students. The Dallas Morning News reports, the students must comply with the random searches or face removal from the school and possible disciplinary action. The searches…… MORE
Texas’ O’Rourke tells national audience he’d impeach Trump
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democratic Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke told a national television audience Thursday night that he’d vote to impeach President Donald Trump and believes Texas can lead the way to a national embracing of relaxed immigration policies and gun control — unapologetically liberal positions that may be hard for some in his deep-red…… MORE
‘Affuenza’ Teen’s Mom Released On Bond
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – The mother of a Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been released on bond. Tonya Couch was released Thursday from the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth. She was fitted with an ankle monitor and released to home confinement. A judge also ordered…… MORE
Trump’s Houston Rally with Cruz Moved to Larger Arena
(WBAP/KLIF) – President Donald Trump’s rally with Senator Ted Cruz has been moved but is still staying in Houston. The rally had been scheduled Monday night for an arena only holding 8,000 people but has been moved to the much bigger Toyota Center holding 18,000. Politico reports the Trump campaign made the decision Thursday. Cruz…… MORE
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