DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has found a former Dallas accountant convicted of killing his nine and six-year-old daughters mentally competent to be executed. John Battaglia shot his daughters, Faith and Liberty, while they were on speaker phone with their mother, Mary Jean Pearl, in May of 2001. Pearl testified that after…… MORE
HURST/GRAPEVINE (WBAP/KLIF News) – Police are warning parents to be on alert after two suspicious incidents involving a stranger approaching a child near an elementary school have been reported in the Metroplex this week. In Grapevine, a 10-year-old boy was approached by a stranger while walking home from Heritage Elementary School on Monday. On Tuesday, a 9-year-old girl…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – The aunt of the 13-year-old Lancaster girl who was kidnapped and murdered in an abandoned South Dallas home is asking that the house be destroyed. On Wednesday, Cynthia King appeared in front of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council on behalf of Shavon Randle’s family. “For myself and my family,…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Speaker of the Texas House wants the state’s preservation board to take down a plaque at the capitol that honors people who enlisted in the Confederate Army. The plaque was placed in the building more than 50 years ago. The message on the plaque reads that “We pledge ourselves to honor veterans and…… MORE
Mexico (CNN/AP/WBAP) – The governor of the central Mexican state of Morelos said at least 119 people have been killed in the magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck the city of Puebla, just south of Mexico City, on Tuesday. The massive earthquake leveled buildings as far away as the capital, about 75 miles away. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8…… MORE