Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – The Transportation Security Administration says it’s been affected by a wave of sick calls as the government shutdown goes into its third week with no end in sight. According to the union that represents TSA employees two to three times as many workers as usual are calling in sick at DFW Airport.…… MORE
El Paso (WBAP/KLIF) – Reports in El Paso say dozens of would-be immigrants who have been held in federal custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were dropped off Sunday night at the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown El Paso. It is not clear who dropped them off. A number of the immigrants told El…… MORE
Corsicana (WBAP/KLIF) – Police in Corsicana, some 60 miles south of Dallas, are investigating a triple homicide. They got a call over the weekend from a woman who said her sister and her sister’s estranged husband were arguing, and he had a gun. Nancy Castillo told the 9-1-1 dispatcher she was trying at that moment…… MORE
Jasper (WBAP/KLIF) – An execution date has been set for the second of three white men convicted of a notorious murder twenty years ago. John William King will be put to death by lethal injection April 24. He and two others chained a mentally disabled black man to the back of a pickup truck in…… MORE
Tornillo (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke paid a surprise visit to the immigrant teen tent city in Tornillo Sunday, and came out saying it appears to be shutting down. O’Rourke says the tent city’s administrators told him they are no longer accepting new children, and they have 300 ready to leave as soon as…… MORE