Waxahachie (WBAP/KLIF) – An admitted child predator has been sentenced to five life terms in prison. 58 year old Dennis Avery pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting five children over a two-year period. The children were all under the age of 6, and all were enrolled in his wife’s home-based day care. The sentences are to…… MORE
Yearly Archives: 2017
Texas Asks Court to Allow its Ban on ‘Sanctuary Cities’
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Attorneys for Texas are asking a federal appeals court in New Orleans to let the state’s law banning “sanctuary cities” take effect. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia blocked much of the law Aug. 31 – the day before it was to take effect. On Friday, three judges of the 5th U.S.…… MORE
A Texas Congressman Says Hurricane Harvey’s Floods Were a Wake-Up Call
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas congressman Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has told a CNBC interview the floods that inundated large parts of southeast Texas following Hurricane Harvey were a wake-up call. Hensarling says the Federal Flood Insurance program keeps rebuilding homes in flood prone areas, even though as he put it…… MORE
DART Releases New App for Reporting Crimes
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — There’s a new app that lets DART passengers report crimes discretely and anonymously. The app is called “DART Say Something,” which allows passengers to do a little more than simply text DART Police when something suspicious is going on. “[Passengers] wanted to send a photograph. They wanted to send a video.…… MORE
Police in the Collin County town of Josephine shot an angry man with an assault rifle
Josephine (WBAP/KLIF) – An angry man with an assault rifle was shot Thursday in the small Collin County town of Josephine. Town officials were warned about mid-afternoon that a man who had been involved in a disturbance at Josephine’s town hall earlier in the week was on his way back with a gun. The police…… MORE