Mesquite, TX (WBAP/KLIF) – An Amber Alert for a Mesquite toddler has been discontinued and the child has been found safe. The alert was issued for 2-year-old Amia Blanton around 4 a.m. Friday. She was last seen with her paternal grandmother Levita Gant. The Mesquite Police Department’s Brian Parrish said the child’s family was concerned because…… MORE
Richardson, TX, (WBAP/KLIF) – A Richardson squad car has been placed outside police headquarters as a memorial for police officer killed last night while responding to to a disturbance call. The officer has been identified as 37-year-old David Sherrard of Wiley. He was a 14-year-veteran of the force. Karen Yells, the mother of a first…… MORE
Update: 11:30am The Richardson police officer who was killed Wednesday night has been identified as 37-year-old David Sherrard of Wylie. Richardson Police Chief Jimmy Spivey said Sherrard was a 14-year veteran of the force. “I can tell you that Officer Sherrard is a brave, tenured police officer who died in the service of his community,”…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Almost 35 years ago, an 11-year-old girl vanished while taking out the trash from her family’s room at the Kensington Motel in Arlington. The next day, June 28,1983, Julie Fuller’s nude body was found in the 200 block of Handley Ederville Road in Fort Worth. Her killer has never been found. After decades…… MORE
Dallas/Fort Worth (WBA/KLIF) – Police in Hurst are attributing speed and weather conditions to a traffic fatality in the 900 block of westbound 121-183 overnight. A male driver was ejected from his Ford pick-up around 2 this morning and pronounced dead at the scene. No other passengers or drivers were involved. Meantime, crews continue scanning…… MORE