(CNN) — Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who took his life while serving a murder sentence in prison, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy — commonly known as CTE — attorney Jose Baez said Thursday. Baez cited study results compiled by the Boston University CTE Center, which examined Hernandez’s brain for the neurodegenerative brain disease. Hernandez…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Travis County prosecutors say in a court filing that state Rep. Dawnna Dukes spent more than $51,000 on an online psychic, appeared for work at the Capitol impaired and hid a cellphone from investigators. The filing this week was provided by prosecutors ahead of her Oct. 16 misdemeanor corruption trial and…… MORE
(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced an expansion of sanctions on North Korea Thursday and praised China for taking action to limit financial transactions with the isolated communist nation. The effort to project forward momentum in his bid to isolate Pyongyang came at the end of Trump’s four-day visit to the United Nations General Assembly,…… MORE
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
