Rickey Smiley Morning Show

DALLAS – Police Chief David Kunkle is preparing to resign, according to sources at Dallas City Hall. The chief is expected to announce his resignation Thursday, but it will not be effective until April 30. Sources said he is planning to accept a job in the private sector. Kunkle has been the Dallas police chief […]

EL PASO, Texas – Some legislators concerned about how to pay for new highways in Texas have suggested considering an increase in the 20 cents-a-gallon state fuel tax. Members of the Texas Senate Transportation Committee, who convened in El Paso on Tuesday, said money is lacking to build new roads. “We are in the critical […]

FORT WORTH, Texas – Transgender people will be included in Fort Worth’s anti-discrimination ordinance. The city council, in a session attended by more than 200 people, voted Tuesday to expand the ordinance. A June raid at a Fort Worth gay bar, the Rainbow Lounge , left a customer with head wounds and sparked protests by […]

EDINBURG, Texas – A police department’s gift of fruit to a Texas prison turned out to contain 25 pounds of marijuana. The illegal harvest that was missed in an earlier search was discovered by inmates at the Segovia Unit unpacking the crate. Edinburg police Chief Ruirino Munoz says the fruit originally came from a produce […]

    Speaking publicly for the first time since photos of him from a recent musical award ceremony were published on the Internet, Sosa said that the skin lightening is the result of the use of a facial cosmetic cream. “It’s a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin […]

Tracy Morgan’s stand-up gig at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday night left some audience members disgusted and unwilling to stick it out to the bitter the end. The “30 Rock” star was performing as part of the New York Comedy Festival when he launched into a litany of jokes that apparently crossed the line […]

DALLAS – The NBA has released its All-Star ballot and is allowing fans to vote by text messaging for the first time. Fans can vote once per day, per phone number, by texting a player’s last name to 6-9-6-2-2 (MYNBA). Voting can also be done by paper ballot at each arena and online at www.nba.com. […]

TYLER, Texas – Police say an East Texas man has outsmarted himself in trying to get a quicker response from officers to an alleged assault. Tyler police say 38-year-old Mark Anthony Johnson called 911 on Monday night and reported that he’d just committed a homicide and was armed with a weapon. According to a Tyler […]

McALLEN, Texas – A 31-year-old former Texas state trooper has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for cocaine trafficking. The U.S. attorney’s office says U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen sentenced former Department of Public Safety trooper Jesus Rafael Larrazolo in Brownsville on Tuesday. While working as an officer, he was accused of […]

FORT WORTH, Texas – An 85-year-old World War II veteran is in critical condition after police said he was pistol whipped by teenage robbers. Fort Worth police said Frank Albert Burk tried to fight off the three teenagers who busted into his house Monday night. But they hit him in the head and face with […]

*Via his blog on Global Grind, rap entrepreneur Russell Simmons has written an open letter asking Bill Cosby to stop criticizing today’s urban youth, and focus more on the societal ills that created their behavior. “Bill Cosby is an example of someone from the older generation who has consistently blamed the poets and asked suffering […]

Poll Positions     The top five of the BCS standings released Sunday: 1. 2.  3. 4. 5.   TCU took over fourth place in the Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday behind Florida, Alabama and Texas. It’s the highest BCS ranking ever for a team from a conference without an automatic bid to the big-money […]