Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
Commission Wants Ft. Worth to Reconsider Sanctuary Cities Lawsuit
Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Fort Worth Human Relations Commission is asking the city council to reconsider its decision not to join a lawsuit against Texas’ ban on “sanctuary c...
Sep 19, 2017
TX Gov. Unclear About Trump View on Young Immigrants
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has few words about President Donald Trump’s plan for young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and living here illegally. Abb...
Sep 19, 2017
Frisco Makes Video Encouraging Amazon to Bring Second Headquarters to Town
FRISCO (WBAP/KLIF News) — The City of Frisco has turned to YouTube to lure Amazon’s second headquarters, HQ2, to town. In the video, Mayor Jeff Cheney makes several claims as to why Frisco...
Sep 19, 2017
Natural disasters are stressing state budgets.
ATLANTA (AP) – A summer of natural catastrophes has exposed another peril in disaster-prone states: How to pay for the rescues, repairs and rebuilding. The combined tab from Hurricanes Harvey an...
Sep 18, 2017
Texas leaders discuss ways to reduce flood destruction from future storms
The irony of Harvey in HoustonCNN photo DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — While the hard work of repairing lives disrupted by Hurricane Harvey is barely underway Texas leaders are trying to prepare for ...
Sep 18, 2017
UT Austin Tightens Automatic Admission Rules
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – It’s going to get a lot harder for high school students to gain automatic admission to the University of Texas at Austin. Students who want to enroll in the summer or ...
Sep 18, 2017
Special Education Students Displaced By Hurricane Harvey
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) -Concerns about paperwork and technology are being raised over special education students displaced by Hurricane Harvey. A parent group called Texans For Special Education Refo...
Sep 17, 2017
Protestors Hold Peaceful Rally in Lee Park
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Texas Freedom Force members and others stood at Lee Park Saturday in protest of the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. Protestors spoke of how Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and libe...
Sep 16, 2017
Dallas Police Arrest One; Look for Three More In South side Home Invasions
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)-Dallas Police have arrested a man in connection with the string of home invasion robberies that occurred on the city’s south side earlier this week. 28-year-old Mike Leija was...
Sep 16, 2017
City Appointed Task Force Hears from Public on Confederate Monuments
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A day after the Robert E. Lee statue was removed from Lee Park in Dallas, citizens spoke in front of the task force designated to discuss what to do with the statue. The maj...
Sep 15, 2017
