DALLAS – Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings used a YouTube video to speak directly to veteran and retired public safety workers about the ongoing pension fund crisis. He addressed the financial woes that are plaguing the DROP; Deferred Retirement Option Plan, which was created in the 1990’s to keep veteran police officers and firefighters on the force. DROP allowed…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Police are asking the public to help identify a suspect in a recent murder near the Dallas Zoo. Tamika White was killed in a drive-by shooting while riding in a car December 5th, 2016. Investigators believe it was someone White encountered shortly before her murder. Police said she met the suspect at the City Inn…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – A Fort Worth man who escaped from a Galveston jail has been captured. Dominic Potter escaped from the facility while taking out trash from the jail kitchen December 12. The next morning, an officer spotted the truck he allegedly stole at the Buc-ee’s on I-45 in Madisonville about 100 miles North…… MORE
BALCH SPRINGS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Balch Springs Police are searching for a killer. Investigators said Robert Eames was shot and killed Monday morning at the Autumn Run Apartment complex in an attempt to stop thieves from stealing his car. They said Eames heard his car alarm go off and noticed two men near his Hummer on…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A man and a woman are in jail after leading Dallas police on a chase in a stolen car early Monday morning. The black Dodge Charger had been reported stolen in a carjacking last week. Investigators said the man had allegedly robbed a woman leaving a party at the Lakewood Apartments on Henderson near South…… MORE