With four decades as a public school administrator, Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa has learned that patience is important when it comes to student enrollment numbers. On Tuesday, a day after highlighted the district’s current enrollment woes, Hinojosa said that DISD’s forecast was cloudy, but that didn’t mean a storm wasn’t necessarily on the way. While the district would have …

La’Shadion Shemwell, the embattled McKinney City Council member facing a recall vote in November, has refiled a federal lawsuit alleging the city’s procedure for a recall is unconstitutional. Shemwell first filed the suit in March, after the council approved the recall election following the filing of a citizen petition with the city. After the coronavirus pandemic pushed city elections from …

AUSTIN — The state’s mega agency for health care and social services is rescinding proposed cuts to women’s health, family planning and domestic violence programs, it announced Tuesday. But the Health and Human Services Commission also said it’ll commence a hiring freeze for eligibility workers who screen needy Texans applying for safety-net programs, if elected leaders ratify its latest proposal. …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …

Dallas County reported 190 confirmed coronavirus cases and three more deaths on Tuesday. Of the total daily case count, 122 were collected in September and are considered new, while 68 are from past months: one from April, one from May, five from June, 39 from July and 22 from August. Only 39 of Tuesday’s cases were reported directly to the …

A bipartisan group of Texas representatives is fighting to bring home former Marine Trevor Reed, recently given a nine-year prison sentence by Russian authorities for what his lawyers say are false charges. Republican Reps. Michael McCaul and Mike Conaway will introduce a resolution on Wednesday to put pressure on the Kremlin to release Reed, who was born in Fort Worth. He …

Today will be seasonable warm with light northeast winds. A few isolated showers and storms will be possible, but severe weather is not expected. Higher rain chances will move into the area on Thursday as a disturbance passes through. Showers and a few storms will be possible, but it will not be a washout. Beautiful weather will return Friday and …

State Rep. Rhetta Bowers’ record during her first term in office is a point of fundamental disagreement between her and Republican challenger, Will Douglas. Bowers, a Democrat who flipped House District 113 in 2018, says she worked across the aisle to pass significant legislation, like a major funding bill for public schools and laws that increased mental health precautions to …

Texas has a historically low voter turnout — especially for young people. But these high school students are trying to change that. In 2016, only 51.1% of eligible voters in Texas cast a ballot, putting it in the bottom five states for voter turnout. But in 2018, Texas had a historic increase in turnout during the midterm elections, giving it the sixth-highest increase in …

ISLAMABAD: Federal government has decided to launch a four-day anti-polio campaign in the country from September 21 to 25 citing sources. According to sources in the federal health ministry, the campaign would be launched in all four provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit Baltistan. The sources in the health ministry said that there would be two catch-up …