SAN ANTONIO (AP) – An activist who has criticized Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s oversight of a $450 million renovation of the Alamo has announced a longshot bid to take Bush’s job. Rick Range is a retired teacher and firefighter and an amateur historian. He worries that the multi-year Alamo revamp will downplay the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas City Council was briefed by a task force appointed by Mayor Mike Rawlings on Wednesday to recommend plans for confederate statues and street names in Dallas. Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway defended his vote to remove the Robert E.Lee statue from Lee Park. “Just like they took down Saddam Hussein statue,…… MORE
(CNN) – The suspect in New York’s deadliest terror attack since 9/11 has been charged with federal terrorism offenses in connection with Tuesday’s attack in Manhattan in which eight people were killed. 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov of Uzbeckistan is charged with providing material support to ISIS and violence and destruction of motor vehicles. Saipov, who came…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Real Estate Council of Dallas is hosting its first-ever “Shark Tank” to highlight investment and economic development opportunities in South Dallas. Linda McMahon is the council’s CEO and said Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings will speak at this week’s event. “They will talk a little bit about…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Arlington Police Department released new details about the suspect who opened fire on police officers attempting to serve a warrant Tuesday afternoon. An 11-year-veteran officer was shot multiple times and is recovering in the hospital. A bullet grazed a second officer in the hand during gunfire. The department’s Lieutenant Chris Cook said the…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas needs $61-plus billion in federal funding just to rebuild public infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Harvey, as well as to cover projects to prevent future flooding. John Sharp, Texas’ Harvey recovery “czar,” announced Tuesday that the figure was based on surveys of local officials and future U.S. Army Corps of Engineer…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – An Arlington police officer was shot while serving a warrant Tuesday afternoon. The shooting occurred after 4 p.m. in the 4300 block of Kelly Hill Road near Green Oaks Boulevard. The Arlington Police Department’s Lieutenant Christopher Cook said a second officer was injured during the altercation and SWAT was called in. The officer that…… MORE
(CNN) — The suspect in the New York attack is a 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov from Uzbekistan who came to the United States in 2010, two law enforcement sources told CNN. He lives in Tampa, Florida, the sources said. The driver of a rental truck drove down a busy bicycle path in New York near the World…… MORE
(CNN Money) — Facebook will inform lawmakers this week that roughly 126 million Americans may have been exposed to content generated on its platform by the Russian government-linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency between June 2015 and August 2017, CNN has learned. That estimate, which is equivalent to more than half of…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – 127 businesses in Texas have been accused of price gouging during the state of disaster declared for Hurricane Harvey. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Consumer Protection Division said all of the cases involve consumer complaints against gas stations that allegedly charge $3.99 or higher for a gallon of unleaded gas or diesel. “At…… MORE
