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05/23/2025

“Last week was a movie,” as the kids are saying these days. And last week in New Orleans was a movie, as it often is. But that movie wasn’t Escape from Alcatraz. It wasn’t even Chicken Run.

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President of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, Rafael Goyenche, joined WWL to present a fresh timeline of the staggering failure by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office to realize that ten prisoners escaped. (Read more on WWL)

05/23/2025

There will be several demonstrations around Dallas Sunday to mark the date.

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This Sunday marks five years since the murder of George Floyd with the memories still difficult for many officers and first responders who were there. “I remember calling my family and just kind of telling them that I think this is gonna be big.”

05/23/2025

President Trump woke up this morning and lobbed tariffs at Apple, EU...

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President Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well as a 25% tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in America

05/23/2025

The A.I. has become self-aware and initiated blackmail procedures?!?!

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AI startup Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4 artificial intelligence has shown the ability to blackmail it's engineers when it's being faced with the plug being pulled.

05/23/2025

Rhyner, a Dallas radio legend and a founding member of the Tom Petty tribute band Petty Theft, calls this a “pinch me thing”—the chance to play in such a unique venue right in the middle of the city he loves.

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Cover to Cover, a ticketed music festival at Klyde Warren Park on May 31, features top tribute bands like Petty Theft. Proceeds support the park's free daily programs, with food, drinks, and fun for a great cause in the heart of Dallas.

05/23/2025

Scale of 1-to-10, how confident are you that this effort will reduce the volume of homeless people sleeping on Downtown Dallas streets? (1=low confidence; 10=high)

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On Thursday, Dallas city officials unveiled the “Safe in the City” initiative, a comprehensive plan aimed at enhancing public safety and addressing homelessness in the downtown area.

05/23/2025

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05/23/2025

Do you have any faith that the twice-annual ritual of changing our clocks will ever come to an end?

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Texas lawmakers have voted to make daylight saving time permanent, eliminating the twice-yearly clock changes and ensuring longer evenings year-round. The bill passed the state legislature with strong bipartisan support.

05/23/2025

We have a countertop in the KRLD Newsroom where we put all of the food that comes in.

Someone has placed several grocery bags full of wilting plant leaves. While it doesn’t have a strong smell to it, we suspect this is mint.

Thoughts?

05/23/2025

Chief KRLD 1080AM Meteorologist Dan Brounoff tells us the first half of the weekend will be nice, the second half not so much...

We can attribute the stabilization of the atmosphere to the outflow boundary that moved through the area yesterday afternoon. This resulted in numerous storms being diverted, with a distinct boundary established along Interstate 35W.

05/23/2025

The crazy part? TxDot claims the road project will still be completed on time.

A routine construction project has turned into a remarkable paleontological discovery as crews working on the TX State Highway Loop 88 unearthed the fossilized remains of a giant ground sloth, a species that roamed North America during the Ice Age.

05/23/2025

A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A government report released Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.