Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price says she will seek a third term as Mayor. She made the announcement Sunday on WFAA TV’s “Inside Texas Politics” program. Price says she has some unfinished business she’d like to care of. The official campaign filing period begins January 16th. The election will be held May…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – WBAP/KLIF – A 20 year old Central Texas mother whose 2 and 1 year old daughters died after being left in a hot vehicle overnight has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Kerrville Daily Times reports Amanda Hawkins’ sentence for the June 2017 deaths of 2 year old Addyson and 1…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – WBAP/KLIF – Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke is still playing mum on a decision about whether he may launch a White House presidential run in 2020. O’Rourke was pressed on a potential White House bid in his native El Paso, during a town hall meeting on Friday. O’Rourke gave up his House seat,…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Local leaders say a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University fraternity president to serve no jail times highlights the outsized influence alumni play in shaping the criminal justice system in and around Waco. Jacob Walter Anderson was accused of raping a woman outside a 2016 fraternity party. His controversial plea agreement…… MORE
WACO, Texas (AP) – Authorities have apprehended a 61-year-old man who was released from prison after serving a term for arson when he was supposed to have been transferred to Central Texas on a capital murder charge in the 2006 death of a woman. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that Gerald Wayne Brown was free for…… MORE