Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus earlier this year, Grand Prairie has recorded a total of 4,493 cases as of Thursday, according to the city’s website. Grand Prairie is located mostly in Dallas and Tarrant counties, with a small portion in Ellis County. Dallas County updates case numbers for cities Tuesday and Friday and does not report which cases are considered active or …

A Dallas police officer exchanged gunfire with a man during an arrest Thursday night at an apartment complex in northwest Dallas, though police said no one was injured. Police were called to the 3400 block of Webb Chapel Extension just before 10 p.m. Thursday after to a call about a man knocking on several doors at the apartments, police said. …

It’s National Cheeseburger Day, perhaps the best day of the year — at least for burger diehards. Here are five of the best to-go iterations in Southlake: Kincaid’s Hamburgers has a junior burger, but on National Cheeseburger Day, that would be practically illegal to order. The regular bacon cheeseburger is a half-pound of 100% black Angus beef, ground in-house and covered …

Social media platforms Facebook and Instagram on Thursday night experienced an outage across the world. The outage hit thousands in the United States, Europe, Canada and other parts of the world. The outage appears to have started Thursday afternoon and is affecting news feed, logins and some users have a ‘total blackout.’ DownDetector, a site that monitors outages on social …

DADU: Negligence of Sindh government has ruined the beauty of country’s largest lake of sweetwater, Manchar Lake. Known as a paradise for fishermen, the Manchar Lake, situated in Sindh’s district of Dadu has now been transformed into a ‘lake of toxic water’ and often being called as ‘dead lake’. The water of the lake has turned that much toxic now …

WASHINGTON: NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help determine whether or not that planet harbours life. An international research team on Monday described evidence of potential microbes residing in the harshly acidic Venusian clouds: traces of …

MANCHESTER: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)’s successful completion of their summer schedule inside bio-secure ‘bubbles’ is a blueprint for other countries to stage matches amid the Covid-19 pandemic, limited-overs skipper Eoin Morgan said. England returned to action following the Covid-19 stoppage in July with three Tests against the West Indies in bio-secure venues at Southampton and Manchester before …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday terminated the contract of the HBL-Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 international media rights partner following a series of breaches, including matters relating to payments. According to a press release issued by the PCB: “Techfront Inter­national FZE had secured HBL PSL’s international media rights from 2019-2021, but due to a series of contractual …

ISLAMABAD: After a long gap of seven years, the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) met here on Thursday, during which several important decisions were made including the approval of the national anti-doping governing board. The 11-member PSB board headed by Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coord­ination (IPC) Dr Fehmida Mirza held its first meeting after its restructuring by federal cabinet last December. …

KARACHI: Litigation against the collection of the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) continues to pile up, with some concerns obtaining stay orders from various high courts on technical grounds. An order issued by the Sind High Court on Tuesday restrained the government from collecting any arrears on the GIDC from a select group of companies that have filed a suit …