AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The three top political leaders in Texas are proposing a state sales tax increase of one percentage point in order to lower property taxes. The plan for a one-penny sales tax increase, announced Wednesday, would raise the statewide rate from 6.25% to 7.25%. Local government add-ons make the average sales tax rate…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Texas Department of Agriculture is warning consumers to be cautious after one of its inspectors found a credit card skimmer at a gas station in Arlington. It was found on the pump at the Valero Smart Mart on West Randol Mill Road and North Cooper Street but has since been…… MORE
Fort Worth (WBAP/KlF) – An American Airlines flight attendant says she spilled a tray of drinks on CEO Doug Parker on a recent flight from Phoenix. In an Instagram post, Maddie Peters said she had never spilled a drink in her four years as a flight attendant, until a first class passenger bumped into her…… MORE
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) – Race will no longer be factored into admissions at Texas Tech University’s medical school under an agreement with the Trump administration. The resolution is the first of its kind under Education Secretary Betsy Devos. It could preview how other affirmative action complaints are handled by her agency. A copy of the…… MORE
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — To deal with a surge of migrating Central American families, the Trump administration has reassigned so many inspectors from U.S.-Mexico border crossings that truckers are waiting in line for hours and sometimes days to get shipments to the United States. Truckers have been sleeping in their vehicles to hold spots…… MORE