(WBAP/KLIF) — The Texas Legislature has finalized new political maps during redistricting. State lawmakers, Friday, sent governor Greg Abbott new boundary maps for legislative districts. The GOP controlled house and senate formulated the maps intended to strengthen the republican hold on the legislature. The house passed a new Senate redistricting map 81-60, while the Senate…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The CEO of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum said Friday that she’s horrified by a recent report out of Carroll ISD in Southlake. A Carroll Independent School District Administrator reportedly advised teachers last week to offer books with an “opposing view” on the Holocaust if they have a Holocaust-related book…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF)- For James McNair and Elizabeth Leamon, love struck when they least expected it. The setting wasn’t on a moonlit beach or a romantic restaurant – it was on the Trinity Railway Express platform at Bell Station. James and Beth first became acquainted in June of 2015 while waiting on the TRE to commute to…… MORE
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) – Bill Clinton is recovering from a urological infection in a Southern California hospital. An aide said Friday the former president was in an intensive care section of the hospital, though not receiving “ICU care.” The aide, who would not allow his name to be used, did not elaborate on the reason…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn joined DFW area Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders, and refugee resettlement organizations on Friday at the Northwest Community Center in Dallas to discuss the resettlement process. The roundtable touched on the resettlement process to assist SIV holders with job-skills training, mentoring, language learning, and additional services. Leaders from the Northwest Community Center, International Rescue Committee in Dallas, Refugee Services of Texas,…… MORE