DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Area Rapid Transit is firing back after the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Board moved to back a proposal to strip funding from DART in order to save the failing pension system. DART’s Morgan Lyons warns the loss of $35-million a year would result in service cuts and make DART less…… MORE
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday, the sources said. The MOAB is also known as the “mother of all…… MORE
MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF News) – A martial arts instructor in McKinney has been accused of sexually assaulting two of his teenage students. Police said Timothy Lee Vidal, an instructor at Tiger Rock Martial Arts on Virginia Parkway, was arrested April 5 after one of his students claimed he took her to a Holiday Inn in Allen to have…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Dallas City Council has passed a measure that would cite people caught with less than four ounces of marijuana, but they would not be arrested. Supporters say “cite and release” would free jail space for more violent offenses. Dallas police did not take an official position on the issue, but…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A tough Texas bill cracking down on local police who refuse to help enforce federal immigration law has cleared a key legislative hurdle toward becoming law. A House committee voted 7-5 without debate Wednesday to approve a softened version of the anti-“sanctuary cities” bill approved by the state Senate in February.…… MORE