Sheriff calls phone scammer. Dep Marshall doesn’t work for us! It’s a SCAM#5129911693 pic.twitter.com/Cjete792ST — Sheriff Robert Chody (@SheriffChody) August 15, 2017 GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) – A Central Texas sheriff returned a payment-demand call and confronted a scammer who falsely claimed to be a deputy with his department. Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody tweeted details…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott filed an appeal on Tuesday to the six-game suspension handed down by the National Football League last week. The league said Elliott violated the personal conduct policy after it investigated claims of domestic violence from his ex-girlfriend. Elliot denied the charges and no criminal charges were…… MORE
(CNN) — In a remarkable news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower, President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday on both sides of the conflict, equating the white supremacists on one side with the “alt-left” on the other side. “I think there is blame on both sides,” he said. “What about…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Crowds gathered in a South Dallas neighborhood Tuesday afternoon while local and federal investigators searched for evidence at the house where a Lancaster teenager was found dead earlier this Summer. Police said the bodies of 13-year-old Shavon Randle and Michael Titus were found in an abandoned house after Randle was kidnapped and held…… MORE
(CNN Money) — The president of a manufacturing association has become the fourth executive to walk away from President Trump after he took two days to denounce white supremacy. Scott Paul, head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, quit Trump’s manufacturing council on Tuesday. He said on Twitter it was “the right thing for me…… MORE
College Station (WBAP/KLIF News) – A “White Lives Matter” rally set to take place at Texas A&M University on September 11 has been cancelled. The rally was organized by prominent white supremacist and former A&M student Preston Wiginton and was set to be headlined by Richard Spencer. Spencer, who gained national attention after video of him surfaced of…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A small group of Texas House Republicans got in each other’s faces during a brief but intense exchange after the chamber passed a contentious property tax bill. The House voted Monday to require local governments to hold elections if property taxes increase by 6 percent, letting voters possibly “rollback” such increases. The…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Days after violent protests erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia over the removal of confederate memorials, Dallas City Council Member Phillip Kingston said “the sooner the better” in addressing statutes in Dallas that honor Civil War heroes. Kingston said a resolution written by a group of local clergy and historians outlines a plan. “It would…… MORE
(CNN) — The suspect being held in a Virginia jail in connection with a deadly crash near a scheduled rally of white nationalists holds extreme values, one of his former teachers told CNN on Sunday. James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, is accused of running his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people, killing a…… MORE
WACO (WBAP/KLIF News) – A federal judge has ordered Baylor to hand over information from an independent investigation into how the university responded to accusations of sexual assault. Baylor hired the law firm Pepper Hamilton in 2015 to investigate the way the school handled accusations of sexual assault by members of the football team and…… MORE
