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Killeen School District: Substitute Put Duct Tape on Students’ Mouths

Killeen School District: Substitute Put Duct Tape on Students’ Mouths

KILLEEN, Texas (AP) – Officials in the Killeen Independent School District said a substitute teacher put duct tape over the mouths of 10 fifth-grade students. The Killeen Daily Herald reports that the incident happened Thursday at Maxdale Elementary School. A news release from Killeen ISD said three other students put duct tape over their own mouths as…MORE

DPD: Suspicious Package Found at Dallas Women’s Clinic a Hoax

DPD: Suspicious Package Found at Dallas Women’s Clinic a Hoax

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas Police Department said a suspicious package found outside a women’s health clinic was a hoax. The call came from the Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center at 8616 Greenville Avenue near Royal Lane Friday morning. The clinic performs numerous services, including abortions, and has been the target of both protesters and threats in…MORE

DFW Metroplex Sends Unified Bid for Amazon’s Second Headquarters

DFW Metroplex Sends Unified Bid for Amazon’s Second Headquarters

NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Today is the deadline for Amazon to receive proposals from cities nationwide to be the home of a second headquarters and cities within the Metroplex sent a unified proposal to the company. Dallas, Fort Worth, McKinney and other North Texas cities are all bidding but Brandom Genglebach with the Fort Worth Chamber…MORE

President Trump Rates Administration’s Response to Puerto Rico a 10 Out of 10

President Trump Rates Administration’s Response to Puerto Rico a 10 Out of 10

(CNN) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that Puerto Rico faced a situation “worse than Katrina” as he explained why he was rating his administration’s response to the hurricane a 10 out of 10. “It was probably the most difficult when you talk about relief, when you talk about search, when you talk about all the different levels. Even…MORE

Dallas’ Love Field Celebrates 100th Birthday

Dallas’ Love Field Celebrates 100th Birthday

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Love-Field celebrated its 100th birthday today. The field opened as an army flight training base on October 19, 1917. Bob Montgomery is the Vice President of Airport Affairs for Southwest Airlines and said the airport is busier now that it has ever been before. “We’ve got 180 flights a day. That translates…MORE

Crews Demolish the House Where Shavon Randle’s Body was Found

Crews Demolish the House Where Shavon Randle’s Body was Found

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The south Dallas house where the body of a kidnapped Lancaster teen was found over the Summer is gone. Demolition crews raised the house at 2208 East Kiest Boulevard early Thursday morning. Cynthia King is 13-year-old Shavon Randle’s great aunt and said she wanted the house gone so the family and her niece’s…MORE

Federal Judge Grants Undocumented Pregnant Teen The Right to Undergo Abortion in Texas

Federal Judge Grants Undocumented Pregnant Teen The Right to Undergo Abortion in Texas

WASHINGTON  (WBAP/KLIF News) – A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that an undocumented pregnant teenager from Mexico who is currently detained has the right to undergo an abortion in Texas. The 17-year-old referred in court documents as Jane Doe is believed to be more than 14 weeks pregnant. She entered the country without her parents, was…MORE

Execution For Houston Area’s “Tourniquet Killer” Pushed Back

Execution For Houston Area’s “Tourniquet Killer” Pushed Back

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A judge has for now halted the scheduled execution of a man known as the Houston area’s “Tourniquet Killer.” Anthony Allen Shore was to be put to death Wednesday evening for the killings of four female victims, but the judge withdrew the execution warrant just hours before Shore was set to die.…MORE

NFL Will Not Force Players to Stand For National Anthem

(CNN Money) — Speaking to reporters after a two-day owners meeting in New York on Wednesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced no plans to change the league’s policy which states that players should stand for the National Anthem but it does not require them to. Goodell also said players aren’t trying to be “disrespectful to the flag” when…MORE

Trump, Dem Congresswoman Feud Over his Alleged Remarks to Widow of Fallen Soldier

Trump, Dem Congresswoman Feud Over his Alleged Remarks to Widow of Fallen Soldier

(CNN) — President Donald Trump engaged in a public feud Wednesday with a Democratic congresswoman over her claim that he told the widow of a US serviceman killed in an ambush in Niger that “he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt.” Trump has emphatically denied Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson’s account…MORE