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Mattie Parker Elected Next Fort Worth Mayor

Mattie Parker Elected Next Fort Worth Mayor

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- Mattie Parker has been elected the 45th Mayor of the City of Fort Worth. Parker, who is 37 years old, is the youngest leader of a major city. The city of Fort Worth was recently dubbed the 12th largest city in the country, nearing 1 million people. Parker said she ran for…MORE

Dallas County Run Off Election Results

Dallas County Run Off Election Results

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Six Dallas City Council seats were up for grabs and on the ballot in the June 5th runoff election. All three of the seats where the incumbent could not run because of term limits faced a run off for districts 7,14, and 4. For Dallas City Council Place 2 James Moreno took the…MORE

Brother Of Accused Murderer Going To Prison

Brother Of Accused Murderer Going To Prison

Fort worth, (AP) – The brother of a Texas man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in suburban Dallas in 2008 has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for helping his sibling evade arrest for more than a decade. Yassein Abdulfatah Said was sentenced Friday in federal court in Fort Worth.…MORE

NRA Drops New York Lawsuit

NRA Drops New York Lawsuit

New York (AP) – The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit that had accused New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility. NRA lawyers filed court papers Friday saying they were voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit against Attorney General Letitia James. In a statement, the organization said…MORE

North Texans Decide Runoff Elections

North Texans Decide Runoff Elections

Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Today is the day north Texans settle several run-off elections. Fort Worth voters will be choosing a new mayor. They’ll pick either Deborah Peoples or Mattie Parker to be the city’s first new mayor in a decade. Peoples was a former Democratic Party chairwoman who, if elected, would become Fort Worth’s first…MORE