DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Rescue efforts are still underway in Mexico City after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Tuesday afternoon, killing over 230 people. In the DFW Metroplex, people are doing what they can to help those affected by the earthquake. Maria Hernandez, a west Dallas resident, was in Mexico City for her mother’s funeral and left…… MORE
ROCKWALL (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Rockwall Police Department is investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting. Investigators said officers had responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex in the 300 block of Lake Meadows Drive shortly before noon on Thursday. When they arrived, they found the suspect sitting in a car in the parking lot. He…… MORE
COLLIN COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Richardson man accused of killing his girlfriend and hiding her body was found guilty of murder Wednesday afternoon. 28-year-old Jason Lowe testified on Monday that in May of 2016, he and his live-in girlfriend, Jessie Bardwell, took the mind-altering drug GHB and were having sex in the shower when she fell and hit her…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has found a former Dallas accountant convicted of killing his nine and six-year-old daughters mentally competent to be executed. John Battaglia shot his daughters, Faith and Liberty, while they were on speaker phone with their mother, Mary Jean Pearl, in May of 2001. Pearl testified that after…… MORE
HURST/GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF News) – Police are warning parents to be on alert after two suspicious incidents involving a stranger approaching a child near an elementary school have been reported in the Metroplex this week. In Grapevine, a 10-year-old boy was approached by a stranger while walking home from Heritage Elementary School on Monday. On Tuesday, a 9-year-old girl…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The aunt of the 13-year-old Lancaster girl who was kidnapped and murdered in an abandoned South Dallas home is asking that the house be destroyed. On Wednesday, Cynthia King appeared in front of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council on behalf of Shavon Randle’s family. “For myself and my family,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Speaker of the Texas House wants the state’s preservation board to take down a plaque at the capitol that honors people who enlisted in the Confederate Army. The plaque was placed in the building more than 50 years ago. The message on the plaque reads that “We pledge ourselves to honor veterans and…… MORE
Mexico (CNN/AP/WBAP) – The governor of the central Mexican state of Morelos said at least 119 people have been killed in the magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck the city of Puebla, just south of Mexico City, on Tuesday. The massive earthquake leveled buildings as far away as the capital, about 75 miles away. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Dallas city councilman is concerned about money and safety because of the number of Dallas police officers who will work the State Fair of Texas when it opens later this month. Scott Griggs said the department is low on officers and neighborhoods will be at risk by putting officers on…… MORE
(CNN) — The White House released this transcript of President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. In the remarks, Trump delivered a doomsday warning to North Korea and mocked its young leader, an escalation in rhetoric in a wide-ranging debut address to the world’s foremost diplomatic body. TRUMP: Mr. Secretary…… MORE
