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Plano Man gets Life for Attacking Girlfriend with Ax

Plano Man gets Life for Attacking Girlfriend with Ax

MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF) – A Collin County man was sentenced on Tuesday for attacking his girlfriend with an ax. District Attorney Greg Willis announced that 57-year-old Gregory Reed, of Plano, was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree offense of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon causing Serious Bodily Injury to a Family Member. “This brave woman…MORE

Lawmaker Proposes Historic Pay Raise for Texas Teachers

Lawmaker Proposes Historic Pay Raise for Texas Teachers

AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas State Rep. James Talarico is behind a bill that, if passed, would give Texas teachers a $15,000 pay bump. “House Bill 1548 would be the biggest teacher pay raise in Texas history.,” said Rep. Talarico. “This moment demands bold action and that’s what our state is known for.” The bill would…MORE

Classified Documents at Pence’s Home, Too, His Lawyer Says

Classified Documents at Pence’s Home, Too, His Lawyer Says

NEW YORK (AP) — Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana Home last week, according to his attorney. The documents had been “inadvertently boxed” and transported to Pence’s home at the end of the last administration,” Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told the National Archives in a letter last week.…MORE

North Texas Sex Trafficking Sting Nets 46 Arrests

North Texas Sex Trafficking Sting Nets 46 Arrests

NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Authorities arrested 46 North Texas men in connection with a commercial sex trafficking sting that operated out of hotels in Southlake’s town square and near Stonebriar Centre in Frisco. The Homeland Security Investigation’s Dallas office said the would-be “Johns” came from all walks of life including a high school…MORE

White House Claims House GOP Will Raise Gas Prices by Restricting Strategic Oil Reserves

White House Claims House GOP Will Raise Gas Prices by Restricting Strategic Oil Reserves

Fox Business (WBAP/KLIF) – Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday that President Biden would veto a bill being pushed by House Republicans that would limit his ability to draw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The bill, the Strategic Production Response Act, calls for increasing domestic oil and gas production on federal lands to offset…MORE