KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) – Former President George H.W. Bush is celebrating his 93rd birthday with family on the Maine coast. Bush was planning a low-key celebration Monday with his wife, Barbara Bush, and other family members at their summer home in Kennebunkport. She turned 92 last week. The former president was hospitalized in the spring…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a 2018-2019 state budget worth around $217 billion, but vetoed about $120 million in planned expenditures. Squeezed by the oil price slump, the budget includes funding increases for the state’s beleaguered child welfare system and $800 million for border security. Abbott signed the budget…… MORE
ORLANDO, Fla. (WBAP/KLIF News) – On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured dozens more at Pulse Nightclub, popular spot for the gay community in Orlando, Florida. Police shot and killed Mateen during the massacre. It’s considered the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history. Florida Senator Bill Nelson talked with reporters…… MORE
(CNN) — Another federal court ruled against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order limiting travel from six predominately Muslim countries. The ruling from a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is yet another stinging loss from a court that similarly refused to reinstate Trump’s original executive order on travel in February. “We…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Vogel Alcove, a Dallas non-profit that helps children overcome the traumatic effects of homelessness, is raising money to keep their therapeutic garden alive. The organization’s Karen Hughes said the organization developed an all-natural playground that includes a vegetable, pickle and hydroponic garden. She said the act of gardening helps these kids heal.…… MORE