(CNN) — Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray have reached a deal “in principle” to restore Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction payments for two years in exchange for more state flexibility in Obamacare. One Senate aide said the plan would also restore just over $100 million in funding for Obamacare outreach, which is particularly critical since the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Cite and Release has been approved in Dallas. The Dallas County Commissioners Court approved the measure which will allow anyone caught with a misdemeanor amount of marijuana in the city of Dallas to be given a ticket. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said the program can be a benefit to both the…… MORE
NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A North Texas family is facing backlash because of a wedding invitation it sent with a note asking mothers to nurse their children in the bathroom. Deron Crenshaw is the mother of the bride and said the woman who complained on social media, which made the wedding go viral, didn’t even…… MORE
(CNN) — A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban one day before it was set to take effect. Judge Derrick Watson said the travel ban — Trump’s third version of the policy — “plainly discriminates based on nationality.” The President’s executive order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor: it lacks…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) – A public search party started its own effort on Tuesday afternoon to look for a Richardson toddler who vanished over a week ago. The group organized through social media and searched for three-year-old Sherin Mathews in a wooded area near Richland College. It’s the same area where Richland police, Mansfield police and…… MORE
(CNN) — US President Donald Trump has “lit the wick of the war” against North Korea, a Russian state news agency quoted North Korea’s foreign minister as saying on Wednesday. The statement follows weeks of escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, fueled by Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear tests and Trump’s tough talk. Speaking…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The attorney for the mother of a missing three-year-old Richardson girl said his client is hopeful for her daughter’s return. Sherin Mathews was last seen Saturday when her father put her in an alley around 3 a.m. as punishment for not drinking her milk. Attorney Kent Starr said Sini Mathews, who…… MORE
ROCKWALL (WBAP/KLIF News) – A local Hispanic leader is calling on the Rockwall Police Department to review its policy on deadly force following a fatal officer-involved shooting last month. Police said Jose Felix Reyes Junior rammed his vehicle into two patrol cars during a domestic violence call before he was shot and killed by police. The…… MORE
DALLAS – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is receiving some backlash in response to comments he made threatening to bench players who decided to kneel during the National Anthem. ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” host Michael Wilbon compared Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to a slave owner. During a discussion with co-host Tony Kornheiser over whether players like quarterback…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Charges have been filed against Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to the National Labor Relations Board in Fort Worth, after he made statements threatening to bench players who did not stand for the national anthem. The United Labor Union’s Wade Rathke filed the charge against Jones, claiming the team owner violated the National Labor…… MORE
