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At Least Six Reported Injured in FLorida State University Campus Shooting.
TALLAHASSEE – (WBAP/KLIF) – Six people shot; one in critical condition and the other five reported in serious condition, as an active shooter opens fire at Florida State University late Thursday morning.
FSU sent out a text message to students and staff around noon warning of the active shooter location; near the Student Union.
Tallahassee Police report they have the suspected shooter in custody.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement posted on X that the FDLE is engaged in the incident, as did FBI agencies in Tallahassee and Jacksonville. The Leon County Sheriff’s Office helicopter has been circling the campus and state troopers, fire, and various police agencies have also responded.
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Parents of Stabbing Suspect Appear Before Press
COLLIN COUNTY – (WFAA; WBAP/KLIF) -The parents of Karmelo Anthony — the Frisco teenager accused of fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at a track meet earlier this month — speak to the media for the first time at a press conference Thursday. The press conference was delayed on Thursday after Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff Metcalf, arrived at the organization’s headquarters. Next Generation Action Network called Dallas police to have him removed.
A court order reportedly prevents Karmelo Anthony from having any contact with the Metcalf family. Karmelo Anthony did not attend the press conference, according to Next Generation Action Network. The organization said it would not proceed with the press conference until Metcalf left the site.
Next Generation officials, led by group president Dominique Alexander, said the Anthony family “has endured a wave of falsehoods, misinformation, and hateful attacks — some of which have been blatant, intentional misrepresentations of both the family and the ongoing legal case.”
Next Generation officials said the press conference will be a “critical” opportunity for the public to hear directly from the Anthony family.
“This is a moment for truth,” Alexander said. “The Anthony family deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves, to clear the record, and to share the impact this has had on their lives—not through the lens of speculation, but through their own words.”
The Anthony family will make a statement at the press conference and then take questions from the press.
Anthony was released from jail Monday after posting bond. Judge Angela Tucker earlier in the day decided to significantly reduce Anthony’s bond amount from $1 million to $250,000.
Anthony was arrested and charged with murder in the death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf April 2 at the UIL District 11-5A championship track meet at Frisco ISD’s Kuykendall Stadium.
Under his new bond conditions, Anthony, who appeared at the hearing in a yellow jumpsuit, is required to wear an ankle monitor and ask permission to leave his home.
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Police Identify Alleged Wilmer-Hutchins High School Shooter
(WBAP/KLIF) — Dallas ISD Police have released the identity of the person they believe fired shots at Wilmer-Hutchins High School, Tuesday, hitting four students.
17-year-old Tracy Haynes, Jr., turned himself into authorities, last night, and is charged with aggravated assault mass shooting. The affidavit says another student let Haynes into the school and shot one student at point blank range
All four of the alleged shooter’s victims were male students and taken to the hospital, two of which have since been released, while all are expected to make a full recovery.
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CPI Rises Slightly in March
WASHINGTON – (WBAP/KLIF) New figures are in for the March Consumer Price Index, decreasing point one percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in March, after rising point 2 percent in February.
Over the last 12 months, the “all items” index increase 2.4 percent before seasonal adjustment. Index for energy fell 2.4 percent in March, as a 6.3 percent decline in the index for gasoline more than offset increases in the indices for electricity and natural gas. In contrast, the food index rose point 4 percent in March, as the food-at-home index increase a half percentage point, and food away from home index rose .4 percent over the month.
Indices that increased during March include personal and medical care, education, apparel and new vehicles. Indices for airline fares, motor vehicle insurance, used cars and trucks and recreation were among those decrasing in March.
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Dallas Mavericks Call No-Camera Press Conference with Nico Harrison
(WBAP/KLIF) — WFAA News 8 -The Dallas Mavericks issued an invite to a hand-selected group of media members on Monday, offering them the chance to attend a “small media roundtable discussion” on Tuesday with Mavs CEO Rick Welts and General Manager Nico Harrison.
The invite, sent out with less than 24 hours’ notice, beckoned individual members of the press — not the organizations with whom they are affiliated — to attend a gathering at 10 a.m. with Harrison and Welts. The invite to the event, which is being held in the media boardroom on the platinum level of the American Airlines Center, promised “brief remarks followed by Q&A” with the top brass in the Mavericks organization.
The invite also clearly stipulated that no cameras or recording devices would be allowed in the meeting.
Instead, the team said it would provide a transcript of the discussion to attending media members after the fact.
It is not yet clear what the statement Welts and Harrison are set to provide will address, why the meeting is not being held as a press conference, or why no cameras or recording devices are being allowed.
The decision is just the latest in a series of questionable actions involving the Mavericks.
But could this latest move lead to real answers for fans who’ve been pleading for explanations behind it all? That, too, is to be determined. WFAA will have coverage of the meeting immediately after its conclusion, and will host a live special on our streaming app WFAA+ at noon, detailing what transpired during the event.
Interest in what may come out of the gathering is understandably high.
Aside from a quick question he answered on the blue carpet at the Mavs Ball charity gala about how his month of February went, Tuesday’s meeting represents just the second time Harrison will have addressed the media since his late-night trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, Feb. 1. His only previous public address of the trade came the day after news of it broke, during a pre-game press conference ahead of a Mavericks game in Cleveland.
Harrison, notably, did not attend the press conference in Dallas during which his trade acquisitions Anthony Davis, Max Christie and Caleb Martin were introduced to the media.
His silence has become only more noticeable as fans have continued to chant “Fire Nico!” — everywhere, anywhere, whenever — in the two-and-a-half months since the trade came to pass.
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The Federal Government Pulls Funding for the Dallas-Houston Bullet Train Project
(WBAP/KLIF) – The US Department of Transportation is pulling millions of federal dollars earmarked to develop high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston. Amtrak had previously received a nearly $64 million dollar grant for the proposed 240-mile rail line, but will now spend the money on other projects. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the high-speed rail proposal quote, a waste of taxpayer funds. Kleinheinz Capital Partners, the lead investor in the project, responded by saying that the private sector is ready to take over.
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El Salvador President Bukele Says He Won’t Be Releasing A Maryland Man Back To The US
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top advisers and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele say that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Trump administration officials are emphasizing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador, was a citizen of that country and that U.S. has no say in his future. And Bukele, who has been a vital partner for the Trump administration in its deportation efforts, said “of course” he won’t release him back to U.S. soil. The Supreme Court has called for the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
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Judge Denies Bail For Man Accused Of Setting Fire At Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Residence
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who allegedly scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion has been denied bail Monday after a brief court appearance. Cody Balmer did not enter a plea to charges that include attempted homicide, terrorism and arson. Authorities say Balmer had planned to beat Gov. Josh Shapiro with a small sledgehammer if he encountered him early Sunday. The motive remains unclear but police say he “admitted to harboring hatred” toward Shapiro. The fire left significant damage and forced the governor, his family and guests to evacuate the building early Sunday.
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Trump Administration Freezes $2.2 Billion In Grants To Harvard Over Campus Activism
BOSTON (AP) — The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University. The institution says Monday it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism. The list at Harvard was updated Friday, and includes government and leadership reforms, as well as a requirement to institute what it calls a “merit-based” admissions and hiring policy. It also includes an audit of the study body and faculty on their views about diversity, as well as a ban on face masks which appeared to target pro-Palestinian protesters.
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US Army To Control Land On Mexico Border As Part Of Base, Migrants Could Be Detained, Officials Say
WASHINGTON (AP) — A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, a move that could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants. That’s according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press. The transfer of that border zone to military control — and making it part of an Army installation — could allow the Trump administration to get around a federal law that prohibits U.S. troops from being used in domestic law enforcement on American soil, but one legal expert said the move is likely to be challenged in the courts.
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