ISLAMABAD: As many as 626 more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of confirmed cases to 287,300. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 14 people died due to coronavirus-related complications during this period, pushing the death toll from the disease in the country to 6,153. …

If a COVID-19 vaccine is proven effective, the US will ensure it’s distributed for free to all Americans, officials said Thursday, underscoring there will be no shortcuts on safety. “We are not at all reducing the regulatory rigor with which we will evaluate and hopefully approve vaccines,” Paul Mango, a senior health department official, told reporters. Washington has invested more …

AUSTIN — The Black Legislative Caucus, joined by the family of George Floyd, announced Thursday that it would introduce a bill in the next legislative session that would ban choke holds statewide and narrow use-of-force rules for police officers. The Houston native was killed in Minneapolis Police Department custody on May 25 after a veteran officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on …

An excessive heat warning has been issued for Dallas, Tarrant, Denton and counties to the south and east. This warning is in place until 7 p.m. Saturday. High temperatures will climb into the 101 to 104-degree range through the weekend. Heat index values will approach 110 over the next few afternoons. Be sure to limit time outdoors and take the …

Before the pandemic, Norma Barrientos visited her mother two or three times a week, staying for hours at Skyline Nursing Center, where Mary Sifuentes has lived for more than two years. But they haven’t been allowed to see each other in person at the Dallas nursing home since March, when the state banned visits at such facilities to prevent the …

Dallas County crossed the 800-death threshold with 13 new COVID-19 deaths reported Thursday. The county also recorded 641 new coronavirus cases. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said at a news conference that the county continues to see a steady decline in new cases after posting record highs in early and mid-July. “Today you may notice it is a lot higher …

Police have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in connection with the fatal road-rage shooting of a man in north Oak Cliff last month. Vincent Harris has been charged with murder in the death of Joe Dominguez, 28, who died at a hospital after his vehicle was shot at in the 700 block of Sabine Street, near North Ewing and North Lancaster …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Local organizations have come together to bring attention to the startling statistics regarding transgender murders in Houston. In the last five years, more transgender people have been killed in Texas than in any other state. Some said its becoming a national epidemic, especially with transgender women of color being murdered at an alarming rate. The Human Rights …

Sandwiched in the middle of the whirlwind day of decisions, Dallas ISD’s board of trustees voted 8-0 to place a nearly $3.7 billion bond package in front of voters in November. The package, required by state law to be broken up into five different pieces, would touch nearly every building in the state’s second-largest school district over the next decade, …

A woman working as a subcontractor for the state Department of Transportation was killed Thursday afternoon as a result of a crash on Interstate 20. The accident took place about 1:20 p.m. in the 900 block of East Interstate 20, police said. The unidentified victim had been working to remove trash and debris from the grassy median alongside the freeway …