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Paxton Wins Big Money State Senate Race; Valdez Faces Runoff for Governor; Cruz to Face O’Rourke

Paxton Wins Big Money State Senate Race; Valdez Faces Runoff for Governor; Cruz to Face O’Rourke

Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – In a wrap up of primary election results in Texas, In the hotly contested  Collin County State District 8 race, Angela Paxton defeated Phillip Huffines.  The combined dollars spent on what became a negative campaign tops 10-million dollars.  Paxton faces Democrat Mark Phariss in November. Westwood One Correspondent Clayton Neville has…MORE

University of Texas sued over removal of Confederate statues in Austin

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — The University of Texas is being sued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans over the removal of four statues at UT Austin. The lawsuit charges the statues were illegally taken down under cover of darkness one week after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. UT President Greg Fenves said it was done…MORE

Black Women are Stepping Up

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A new generation of black women is moving to take and keep a place at the forefront of the fight against racial bias. Black women have not been strangers to past protests but historians say they’ve often been overshadowed, first by white women during the suffragette movement and then by the black…MORE

Siren Hackers Frighten Many Dallasites over the Weekend

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from tornadoes and other inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an hour and a half Friday night into Saturday morning until officials deactivated the system. Rocky Vaz, who heads the city’s Office of Emergency Management, says the person or…MORE

Medical Marijuana Arrest made in Texas

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – A California man is facing possible prison time in Texas after he was arrested while carrying his supply of medical marijuana as he drove to Houston to visit his granddaughter who’s in the hospital. The Houston Chronicle reports Phillip Blanton’s case is a perfect example of the nation’s conflicting attitudes toward marijuana.…MORE