Calls for action from lawmakers and advocates are gaining momentum since a state regulatory board that oversees social workers in Texas stripped protections for LGBTQ and disabled people from the social work code of conduct at the recommendation of the Gov. Greg Abbott’s office. In a Friday press conference, legislators and advocates representing the groups that were struck from the …

AUSTIN — A state appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court order that blocked Gov. Greg Abbott’s limit on mail ballot drop-off sites. The ruling from the Austin-based Third Court of Appeals means the state cannot enforce Abbott’s order limiting counties to one mail ballot drop-off site. But the state has indicated it will appeal the decision to the Texas Supreme …

A 51-year-old man was found fatally shot in an apartment Tuesday afternoon in northwest Dallas. Officers were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. to the complex in the 2800 block Community Drive, near Webb Chapel Extension and Harry Hines Boulevard, and found the victim inside an apartment with multiple gunshot wounds. The man, who was pronounced dead at the scene, was identified …

EL PASO — This city is on the brink of maxing out its hospital-bed capacity for COVID-19 patients following record high numbers of coronavirus cases in the last three weeks for a total of 12,264 cases as of Friday. The situation has grown so grim that health authorities across the border in Mexico are urging their own federal government to …

Dallas County elections officials tell NBC 5 Investigates they have identified a voting system error after at least two voters showed up to cast ballots but were told that someone else had already voted in their name. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins confirmed the system error caused between two and four cases where someone actually voted in another person’s name. But Jenkins …

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 …

AUSTIN — Unemployed Texas workers who are at high risk for COVID-19 complications will be required to prove work searches to continue receiving state benefits starting in November. The state in March waived the work search requirement, which is federally mandated, citing the pandemic’s impact on the Texas economy. But earlier this month, the Texas Workforce Commission reinstated it, citing the …

More than 563,00 Dallas County residents have voted since Oct. 13, breaking the county’s early voting record set four years ago. Voting is up statewide, with more than 1 million voters casting their ballots in Harris County, which includes much of Houston, and droves of new voters in Collin and Denton counties in North Texas turning out. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo …

ISLAMABAD: The coronavirus claimed twelve more lives in the country over the past 24 hours, taking the death toll from the disease to 6,727. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 847 fresh infections surfaced when 31,009 samples were tested during this period, lifting the national tally of cases to 327,063. Around 310,101 people have recovered from the …

The United States broke its daily record for new coronavirus infections on Friday as it reported 84,218 new cases due to outbreaks in virtually every part of the country, according to a Reuters tally. The spike in cases comes less than two weeks before the presidential election on Nov. 3 and is hitting battleground states such as Ohio, Michigan, North …