SAN ANTONIO (AP) – An activist who has criticized Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s oversight of a $450 million renovation of the Alamo has announced a longshot bid to take Bush’s job. Rick Range is a retired teacher and firefighter and an amateur historian. He worries that the multi-year Alamo revamp will downplay the…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Senator John Cornyn is joining the growing calls to look closely at the Diversity Immigration Visa Program. This coming after it is now believed that program allowed the suspect in this week’s terror attack to enter the United States. Cornyn says the program does not take into effect what a potential immigrant could…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas City Council was briefed by a task force appointed by Mayor Mike Rawlings on Wednesday to recommend plans for confederate statues and street names in Dallas. Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway defended his vote to remove the Robert E.Lee statue from Lee Park. “Just like they took down Saddam Hussein statue,…… MORE
(CNN) – The suspect in New York’s deadliest terror attack since 9/11 has been charged with federal terrorism offenses in connection with Tuesday’s attack in Manhattan in which eight people were killed. 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov of Uzbeckistan is charged with providing material support to ISIS and violence and destruction of motor vehicles. Saipov, who came…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Real Estate Council of Dallas is hosting its first-ever “Shark Tank” to highlight investment and economic development opportunities in South Dallas. Linda McMahon is the council’s CEO and said Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings will speak at this week’s event. “They will talk a little bit about…… MORE