Following a cabinet committee decision to pre-book over one million doses of the coronavirus vaccine from Chinese state company, Sinopharm, a special session of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) was told on Thursday that vaccine administration cells would be established in all district and tehsil headquarter hospitals, as well as regional health centres, to ensure that immunisation was carried out …

An accountability in Lahore on Thursday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 14-day remand of Parliamentary Leader of the PML-N in the National Assembly Khawaja Muhammad Asif. The NAB prosecutor informed the court that Asif, who had been arrested from Islamabad on Tuesday, was facing charges of accumulating assets beyond known sources of income. Asif had acquired assets in the …

Police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu shrine was set on fire and severely damaged by a mob led by supporters of a cleric in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, officials said on Thursday. The temple’s destruction on Wednesday drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. Local police said they detained at least 14 people in …

Timeria Jones was the “Alvin of the Chipmunks” of her six siblings, her family said. “We knew that everyone was OK through her because she was the vessel for everybody,” said her sister Chamora Jones. “If I don’t talk to my brother in a month, I knew my brother was OK because she had already talked to him. If I …

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus earlier this year, the city of Garland has recorded a total of 17,376 cases, according to the city’s website. To date, more than 7% of Garland’s total population has had the virus, the city says. As of Wednesday, that number includes 4,953 active cases. The statistics include 12,277 recoveries and 146 deaths. That sum includes 17 …

A strong cold front moved through North Texas on Wednesday bringing rain and thunderstorms. Additional rain is likely as a strong upper level weather system moves across the area tonight and Thursday. Some of the rain could be heavy. Two to three inches of rain can be expected in the DFW area through early Friday morning. Flooding is a concern …

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling that Dallas County’s bail system is unconstitutional because of how it treats criminal defendants who do not have the money to secure their release from jail. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion filed on Monday, agreed with most of U.S. District Judge David Godbey’s earlier ruling in a …

AUSTIN — Amid widespread confusion and criticism of Texas’ rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, state leaders are urgently telling hospitals and other providers who have received shipments to move down the pecking order of priority populations. Get the doses you have into people’s arms before vaccines spoil and must be discarded, Gov. Greg Abbott and state health commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt …

Dallas County on Wednesday reported 2,292 more coronavirus cases, all of them considered new. Fifteen new COVID-19 deaths were also reported. Meanwhile, 11,992 Texans were hospitalized with the virus Wednesday, setting another record. Shingle Mountain removal begins Workers begin to remove shingles from what is known as Shingle Mountain, a pile In Dallas County, the latest victims include eight Dallas …

Robert William Tanner Sr., a decorated veteran of three wars who was among the last North Texas survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, died of cancer Dec. 23 in Cedar Hill. He was 99. Tanner was born Dec. 5, 1921, in Fairfield, N.Y., into a family of 11 children. His father died when he was young, and his mother, …