DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax will ask the city council on Wednesday for the authority to pay the city’s new police chief whatever he feels that person deserves. Mayor Mike Rawlings told WFAA TV that money shouldn’t be an issue. “This is too important for the safety for the citizens of Dallas to…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to appoint a task force on race and culture. Mayor Betsy Price said the city was motivated by the Jacqueline Craig case to find a way to address the current issues. “We realized there was a lot of hurting and a lot…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Taco Bueno is doubling down on its tacos. The Texas-based fast-food restaurant chain has announced a partnership with Dallas Cowboy’s rookie taco. Taco Bueno CEO Mike Roper said a marketing opportunity like this one doesn’t come around often. “I’ll make a wild guess that there’s probably less than five people in the…… MORE
RICHARDSON (WBAP/KLIF News) – In response to a bomb threat, officials at The University of Texas at Dallas evacuated the campus Tuesday afternoon. The school urged students, staff and visitors to clear out of all buildings and parking garages on it’s social media platforms. All UTD faculty, staff, students and visitors need to immediately evacuate all buildings…… MORE
(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will delay the vote on the Republican leadership’s health care bill until after the July 4 recess. McConnell told GOP senators that he wants to make changes to the bill, get a new Congressional Budget Office score and have a vote after the holiday, two sources told CNN.…… MORE
TEMPLE, Texas (AP) – Authorities in Central Texas have charged a man with criminal negligent homicide after a 4-year-old girl was killed and her father seriously injured when they were run over by a houseboat. Forty-four-year-old Jason Bernal of Killeen was held over the weekend at the Bell County jail before posting bail and being…… MORE
Bedford (WBAP/KLIF News) – Some citizens of Bedford have voiced their concerns after they were told by police last week they have “nothing to worry about” after a 14-year-old was found dead in a nearby landfill. Kaytlynn Cargill’s body was found in an Arlington landfill last Thursday. She vanished while walking her dog near The Oak Creek Apartments…… MORE
KILLEEN, Texas (AP) – A Central Texas court official who imposed a whopping $4 billion bond on a murder suspect is drawing fresh scrutiny after she declined to recuse herself and oversaw a court hearing involving her son. Bell County Attorney Jim Nichols tells the Temple Daily Telegram that Justice of the Peace Claudia Brown…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The attorney for a man who was assaulted in a Target parking lot in Uptown in January said his client is suing the retailer for not preventing the ambush. Attorney Chris Hamilton also said that particular location, on North Haskell Avenue near Lemmon, has a three-year history of violent crimes that the…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – Tarrant County prosecutors filed a motion on Tuesday to have the so-called “affluenza mom” Tonya Couch’s bond revoked after an alleged alcohol violation last week. Tonya Couch is the mother of Ethan Couch, the 20-year-old who killed four people in a drunk-driving crash in 2013 and was sentenced to probation. During…… MORE
