ELLIS COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – A manhunt is underway for an inmate who has escaped from the Ellis County Jail Monday. Authorities are searching for 67-year-old David Weldon Rowe, who was being held for suspicion of driving while intoxicated, evading arrest and disorderly conduct. Investigators said Rowe was on a supervised work detail near Lone…… MORE
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) – Former President George H.W. Bush is celebrating his 93rd birthday with family on the Maine coast. Bush was planning a low-key celebration Monday with his wife, Barbara Bush, and other family members at their summer home in Kennebunkport. She turned 92 last week. The former president was hospitalized in the spring…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a 2018-2019 state budget worth around $217 billion, but vetoed about $120 million in planned expenditures. Squeezed by the oil price slump, the budget includes funding increases for the state’s beleaguered child welfare system and $800 million for border security. Abbott signed the budget…… MORE
ORLANDO, Fla. (WBAP/KLIF News) – On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured dozens more at Pulse Nightclub, popular spot for the gay community in Orlando, Florida. Police shot and killed Mateen during the massacre. It’s considered the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history. Florida Senator Bill Nelson talked with reporters…… MORE
(CNN) — Another federal court ruled against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order limiting travel from six predominately Muslim countries. The ruling from a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is yet another stinging loss from a court that similarly refused to reinstate Trump’s original executive order on travel in February. “We…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Vogel Alcove, a Dallas non-profit that helps children overcome the traumatic effects of homelessness, is raising money to keep their therapeutic garden alive. The organization’s Karen Hughes said the organization developed an all-natural playground that includes a vegetable, pickle and hydroponic garden. She said the act of gardening helps these kids heal.…… MORE
A Plano man has been sentenced to prison for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child. According to the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, 22-year-old Daniel Ortega sexually abused the victim multiple times a week for a three year period beginning when the child was 9-years-old. When the child moved away she told her mother about…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The standoff along 1-30 in Arlington has come to an end and police have a suspect in custody after a high-speed police chase involving a stolen 18-wheeler ended in a fiery crash. SWAT officers pulled the man out, who was bleeding and seemed dazed. The chase started when a Fort Worth police officer spotted the…… MORE
Residents of several North Texas cities will vote in Municipal runoff elections Saturday. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. in each city or district holding a runoff. Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole reminds voters to bring identification. “You have to have an approved i.d. but if you don’t have…… MORE
Testimony in a number of Dallas County cases is on hold until DNA samples are retested. According to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, as many as 25 samples will be retested because of deficiencies found in sexual assault kits. “There’s something wrong with the sexual assault kits which potentially could give false inclusions,” said Assistant Dallas…… MORE
