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ICE “Endangering” Illegal Immigrants by Housing Them in 2.5 Star Hotels

ICE “Endangering” Illegal Immigrants by Housing Them in 2.5 Star Hotels

(WBAP/KLIF) — ICE officials are being criticized for housing undocumented immigrant youth in two and a half star hotels.  According to U.S. Immigration and Customs, when agents take an illegal immigrant youth into custody, they hire an independent contractor to put them up in a $100 a night hotel for safety. A court-appointed monitor for immigrant…MORE

Shemwell And Fuller Trade Accusations in McKinney

Shemwell And Fuller Trade Accusations in McKinney

(WBAP/KLIF) — The feud between Mckinney Mayor George Fuller and outspoken councilman La’shadion Shemwell reignited this week.  Tempers boiled over during a recent council meeting when the mayor moved to have an 11-member committee review the statue removal of James Webb Throckmorton, who was a confederate general. According to Fuller, Shemwell disrupted the city meeting…MORE

16 Year Old Gunned Down in Dallas Park

16 Year Old Gunned Down in Dallas Park

(WBAP/KLIF) — Dallas Police are searching for the killer of a 16-year-old boy who was gunned down in Arcadia Park, Thursday. According to officer Warren Mitchell, the young man was shot by another young Latin male at around 12:20 in the afternoon.The unidentified gunman fled the scene with two other Latin males in a tan…MORE

Tinslee’s Motion Withdrawn, But Hope Surfaces

Tinslee’s Motion Withdrawn, But Hope Surfaces

(WBAP/KLIF) — Lawyers for the family of Tinslee Lewis have changed course in a lawsuit against Cook’s Children’s Medical Center.  The family withdrew a court motion to compel the hospital to allow a new doctor to treat the child. The motion was entered, Tuesday, after hospital lawyers said turning care over to a Michigan based…MORE

COVID-19 Kills More Than a Thousand North Texans

COVID-19 Kills More Than a Thousand North Texans

(WBAP/KLIF) — The Coronavirus has now taken the lives of more than one thousand North Texans.  With 53 deaths over the last two days, the Metroplex now has 1,016 COVID-19 related deaths. The surge caused a slight uptick in the mortality rate which rose from 1.2% to 1.3%. Dallas county has over 44,000 cases and…MORE