LA JOYA, Texas (AP) — Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults. The scene Tuesday night in La Joya, a town of about 4,000…… MORE
AUSTIN, TEXAS – The Texas House of Representatives voted 78 to 65 in favor of House Bill 547, the UIL Equal Access Bill. If this bill is passed, it would allow homeschooled students to be able to compete in University Interscholastic League (UIL) extracurricular activities within their local public school if their district allows it.…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Mattie Parker and Deborah Peoples share their views during a forum as they face a run off election for Fort Worth Mayor. Both discussed their stances on several issues including job and business recruitment, entrepreneurship, transportation, housing and education. Parker and Peoples both have a focus to bridge the gap between schools and businesses…… MORE
AUSTIN – A date was set Wednesday for the special runoff election in Texas’ 6th Congressional District. The election is to fill the seat of late Congressman Ron Wright. Wright’s widow, Susan Wright, is on the ballot with Texas State Rep. Jake Ellzey. Both candidates are Republicans and emerged from a crowded field after the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Members of the Dallas County Hospital District Police Department are getting back to their roots with the re-launch of a bicycle unit at Parkland Hospital. For nearly two decades in the late 1980’s to early 2000s, DCHD bike patrol officers were a common site on the main campus. But as Parkland’s reach stretched…… MORE