BALCH SPRINGS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Balch Springs city manager is on paid administrative leave after he was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated earlier this month, according to a statement from city officials. The Kaufman County Sheriff’s Department took Charles Fenner into custody on November 7. No other details about the arrest…… MORE
UPDATE: 11.17.2023 9:30 am – Police now say the suspect’s abandoned vehicle he’d believed to have driven with his still-missing son Ian was located abandoned near a bus stop or station on Airline Road in Houston. Reports indicate a bus line at that area provides service to Mexico; it’s feared the suspect and his son…… MORE
GARLAND (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A Dallas grand jury indicted a North Texas teen who was the subject of an Amber Alert in September on a capital murder charge this week. Police arrested 17-year-old Natalie Navarro for the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Aurturo Pena during an alleged online robbery plot. Investigators said Pena’s body was…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News ) – House lawmakers sent a controversial bill to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk on Tuesday that would make unauthorized entry into Texas a class B misdemeanor. Senate Bill 4 enhances the charge to a felony if the offender is accused of other crimes or refuses to comply with a judge’s order to…… MORE
By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. A Dallas company is working to “de-extinct” or bring back the woolly mammoth, last believed alive and roaming the plant four thousand years ago. Colossal Biosciences, based out of Deep Elm or “Deep Ellum” in Dallas, is using DNA from Asian elephants and the same recovered…… MORE