Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Haskell is completely shut down in East Dallas near Beeman after a train derailed. Concrete is scuffed up, but cars did not tip over. Three cars affected are carrying cargo. Police directing traffic around Haskell. Check back for details on this developing story. Haskell is completely shut down in East Dallas near…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The famous Texas rallying cry, “Remember the Alamo!” has a new connotation after a state committee urged educators to remove the word, “heroic” from curriculum regarding the famous battle. Texas Monthly reports the advisory group, tasked with streamlining specific subject lessons, has issued a proposed revision saying the word, “heroic” is,…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott has chimed in on a proposal to delete the term “heroic” from seventh-grade social studies courses about the battle of the Alamo. Texas Monthly reports the change, suggested by a panel advising the State Board of Education did not sit well with many state lawmakers, including Abbott who tweeted,…… MORE
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Rhode Island woman accused of funneling lottery scam money between the U.S. and Jamaica through her airline job goes on trial in federal court in North Dakota this week. Melinda Bulgin is the last of 27 defendants in the case that’s believed to be the first large-scale Jamaican lottery scam…… MORE
Update 8:05pm DALLAS (AP) – The Texas Department of Public Safety says a white Dallas police officer has been arrested on a manslaughter warrant in the shooting of a black man at his apartment. The department said in a news release Sunday night that Officer Amber Guyger was booked into the Kaufman County Jail and…… MORE