DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic had 28 points and 13 assists, Kyrie Irving scored 28 of 30 points in a second-half surge and the Dallas Mavericks advanced to the second round of the playoffs with a 114-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Doncic pushed through another rough shooting night with his ailing right knee…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice probe into the couple’s ties to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. From 2014 to 2021, Cuellar, 68, and his wife accepted…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers pulled back on their hiring in April, adding a modest 175,000 jobs in a sign that persistently high interest rates may be starting to take a bigger toll on the world’s largest economy. Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — In 2021 President Joe Biden designated Juneteenth as a national holiday, realizing the efforts of Fort Worth resident Opal Lee. Now, the 97-year-old has been selected to be one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announced Friday by the White House. Lee is best known for her decades-long campaign to…… MORE
JOHNSON COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The North Texas man convicted of shooting a Burleson police officer and killing a woman he carjacked in 2021 has been sentenced to death row. A Johnson County jury found 31-year-old Jerry Elders guilty of capital murder for the death of 60-year-old Robin Waddell last week. He shot Officer…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Last February, a woman filed a lawsuit accusing Dak Prescott of sexually assaulting her in 2017, and then filed a report seven years later with Dallas Police seeking charges. Prescott’s legal team stated that the woman first sent a letter demanding $100 million dollars in exchange for not reporting it to police. In…… MORE
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) If rush hour weren’t bad enough, DFW drivers who plan to use the southbound Dallas North Tollway are likely to run into delays and possibly traffic diversions near the George Bush Turnpike. Crews are responding to reports a construction crane has rolled off a truck on the southbound tollway road near the…… MORE
TARRANT COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News ) – The Northwest Independent School District will have additional security and counselors on hand for the rest of the week, after two students were arrested for creating an online document outlining an attack plan a school in far north Fort Worth. The district said a parent alerted Wilson Middle School…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Fort Worth police are searching for the gunman who shot up an apartment complex along the 3600 block of Las Vegas Trail just north of Camp Bowie Boulevard Wednesday night. Investigators said at least six people were shot, including four children, outside the Miramar Apartments and Townhomes. Officers arrived…… MORE
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas state troopers with Department of Public Safety are moving in to the University of Texas at Dallas campus to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration rallying against the Israel-Hamas war underway in Gaza. No physical altercations are reported at this time despite several arrests. No injuries are reported, though chanting by…… MORE
