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Police Face Questions Over Response to Texas School Shooting

Police Face Questions Over Response to Texas School Shooting

Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) – Law enforcement authorities in Texas are facing questions and criticism over how much time elapsed before they stormed an Uvalde elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers. Investigators are also unable to say with any certainty…MORE

Very Few Voted In The Primary Runoff Elections

Very Few Voted In The Primary Runoff Elections

Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The May 24 primary runoff elections were widely ignored by north Texas voters. The figures show 4% of Dallas County voters cast ballots in the Democratic primary. Republican turnout was even less at 3%. In Tarrant County, 2% voted in the Democratic primary, 5.5% in the Republican primary. The largest voter turnout…MORE

Accused Murderers Have Been Returned To Dallas

Accused Murderers Have Been Returned To Dallas

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Two women who fled the country after they were accused in the Dallas murder of a Seattle woman two years ago are once again in custody in Dallas. Lisa Dykes and Nina Marano cut off their ankle bracelets and disappeared on Christmas day, 2021. They were arrested in Cambodia in February. Cambodia…MORE

Texas Court Overturns Execution Sentence

Texas Court Overturns Execution Sentence

Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has spared the life of a convicted murderer. Juan Ramon Meza Segundo was scheduled for execution for the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl in 1986. Cold case investigators arrested him 19 years after it happened. The court overturned Segundo’s sentence, finding he…MORE

O’Rourke Interrupts Gov. Abbott Briefing in Uvalde

O’Rourke Interrupts Gov. Abbott Briefing in Uvalde

UVALDE (WBAP/KLIF) – Wednesday’s briefing by state leaders on the Uvalde elementary school massacre brought a brief interruption. Governor Abbott was passing the microphone to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick when his Democratic opponent in the race to unseat him stood up to ask about promised changes by the Governor after the 2018 Santa Fe High…MORE