(CNN) — The House voted Thursday to approve a spending bill with $1.6 billion to put toward a border wall along the US-Mexico border, part of a high-profile campaign pledge from President Donald Trump. Despite Trump’s pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall, the bill earmarks taxpayer money to construct a carrier along the…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – The family of two brothers who were electrocuted by a downed power line in an East Fort Worth park have filed a lawsuit against Oncor. 12-year-old Alex Lopez and 11-year-old Isaiah Lopez were killed when they encountered a live wire at Oakland Lake Park after a major storm back in March.…… MORE
GRAND PRAIRIE (WBAP/KLIF News) – As temperatures hit 101 degrees Thursday afternoon, firefighters are battling a two-alarm fire at a drag strip in Grand Prairie. The fire broke out at the Yello Belly Drag Strip in the 6000 block of West Davis Street near Main. Crews from Dallas Fire Rescue and the Grand Prairie Fire Department responded…… MORE
(CNN) — An official with the Boy Scouts of America apologized to the Scouting community on Thursday for the political content of President Donald Trump’s speech at the National Scout Jamboree. “I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into…… MORE
NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – It’s been a busy week for animal rights-oriented groups in North Texas. Nearly 150 allegedly cruelly treated animals have been seized in the region this week. On Tuesday, the Humane Society of North Texas and Keller Police seized over 100 animals were taken from a home on Anita Avenue. Police were…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas Senate has preliminarily approved a bill increasing criminal penalties for stealing someone else’s mail-in ballot. It’s part of an attempt to curb absentee voting fraud. Gov. Greg Abbott convened a special legislative session to tackle a number of conservative priorities, including mail-in voter fraud. Disabled Texans, or those 65 or…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Republican-run Senate has rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Barack Obama’s health care law and give Congress two years to devise a replacement. Seven Republicans joined all Democrats Wednesday in a 45-55 vote defeating the plan. It was the second self-inflicted setback the GOP has suffered this week in trying to…… MORE
DALLAS, (WBAP/KLIF) – Former Dallas Cowboy Lucky Whitehead speaks out three days after being released from the team. In an interview with ABC news Whitehead talked about his frustrations about how the organization handled his situation. “I just got thrown into the wolves, you know like I like I got blindsided. My back was against the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A new study out of Boston University found that 99 percent of former NFL players who donated their brain for research were diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE. CTE is caused by excessive head trauma often associated with extreme contact in sports like football,…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Police are looking for a man wanted for murder after he allegedly dragged another man for more than a mile after stealing his car. The department’s Officer DeMarquis Black said the victim tried to stop the thief from taking his red 1992 Pontiac on Wildwood Drive near Irving Monday night.…… MORE
