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
Mexico (CNN/AP/WBAP) – The governor of the central Mexican state of Morelos said at least 119 people have been killed in the magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck the city of Puebla, just south of Mexico City, on Tuesday. The massive earthquake leveled buildings as far away as the capital, about 75 miles away. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Dallas city councilman is concerned about money and safety because of the number of Dallas police officers who will work the State Fair of Texas when it opens later this month. Scott Griggs said the department is low on officers and neighborhoods will be at risk by putting officers on…… MORE
(CNN) — The White House released this transcript of President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. In the remarks, Trump delivered a doomsday warning to North Korea and mocked its young leader, an escalation in rhetoric in a wide-ranging debut address to the world’s foremost diplomatic body. TRUMP: Mr. Secretary…… MORE
(CNN Money) –President Donald Trump would sign the Graham-Cassidy bill if the legislation to repeal Obamacare makes it to his desk, an administration official told CNN Tuesday, as the White House launched a full-court press on Capitol Hill. The White House has been working with Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy…… MORE
BEAUMONT (WBAP/KLIF News) – Concern is growing from some state and local leaders about prisoners who reportedly were never evacuated from federal prisons in Beaumont during and after Tropical Storm Harvey. The Prisoners Legal Advocacy Network’s Paul Holdorf said prisoners are suffering from sub-par conditions. “Prisoners who are in fragile health, especially those who are diabetics…… MORE
