Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Dallas Asks Citizens to Weigh In on Police Chief Qualities
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The City of Dallas is asking residents to weigh in on what to look for in a new police chief. A new online survey was released today, asking citizens to select their to...
May 22, 2017
More Legal Coverage Headed to Religious Adoption Agencies as Bill Passes Senate
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas’s Republican-controlled Legislature has pushed closer to law a bill that allows publicly-funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse to place children wit...
May 22, 2017
Texas House Passes “Bathroom Bill”
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas lawmakers have revived a more narrowly focused version of a transgender “bathroom bill” like the one in North Carolina that sparked a national backlash, bu...
May 22, 2017
Texas House approves guidelines for self-driving cars
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas House has approved safety standards for self-driving cars, hoping to better regulate technology that’s already been tested on the streets of the state capita...
May 22, 2017
The state Senate OK’s texting ban
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Senate has passed a bill that would impose a statewide ban on texting while driving. The state House has already passed a similar, but slightly different version, ...
May 20, 2017
Two Fort Worth police officers demoted over leak investigation
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – After months of investigation, Fort Worth police are expected to announce the findings of an internal investigation into who leaked body camera footage of a controv...
May 19, 2017
Dallas County Elections Office Assures Voting Process is Safe
The Dallas County Elections Department says they are aware of concerns from elected officials and citizens regarding voters potentially receiving Absentee Mail Ballots for the June 10 Joint Runoff Ele...
May 19, 2017
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price Will Not Be Retried
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Department of Justice said it will not retry Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price on corruption charges. Price and his co-defendant, his assistant Daphne Fai...
May 19, 2017
Federal Judge Dismisses “Clock Boy” Lawsuit
IRVING (WBAP/KLIF News) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of a boy who was arrested when he brought a homemade clock to school in September 2015. Ahmed Mohammed was a...
May 19, 2017
Apollo 13 Astronauts Share Their Story with a Dallas Audience
Apollo 13 astronauts Fred Haise, Jim Lovell and Jack Swigert after returning to Earth. Photo courtesy NASA. DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The two surviving members of the Apollo 13 flight told their stor...
May 19, 2017
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