ISLAMABAD: President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Lateef Afridi on Tuesday said that with the exclusion of three dissenting judges, the hearing by the present six-judge bench in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa review case would invariably give rise to the perception that dissident judicial voices were being silenced. In a written submission before the Supreme Court, the …

Irving Police Chief Jeff Spivey is among the seven finalists interviewing this week for the job of Dallas police chief. The candidates, who are vying to succeed Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall, will be interviewed in a televised Q&A session Wednesday. Lancaster rescinds $2M buyout, votes to fire former superintendent instead Lancaster trustees backtracked on a $2 million superintendent buyout and voted …

WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, publicly acknowledged that Joe Biden is president-elect on Tuesday and privately urged fellow Republicans not to try to overturn the Electoral College victory that became apparent five weeks ago and formal on Monday. Few Texas Republicans took the cue. Sen. Ted Cruz still refrained from acknowledging President Donald Trump’s defeat. So did …

Texas now leads the nation with the highest number of positive coronavirus tests of any state. Health officials began to warn of another surge in early- to mid-October. The state became the first in the U.S. to hit 1 million cases. The state became the first in the U.S. to hit 1 million cases. North Texas met the critical threshold of …

A Frisco resident has filed an ethics complaint with the city against Mayor Jeff Cheney and other City Council members after they were photographed at indoor events not wearing masks or social distancing. In the complaint, attorney Martin Woodward accuses Cheney, council members John Keating and Brian Livingston and member-elect Dan Stricklin of disregarding the state mask mandate and the …

Officials at Parkland Health & Hospital System are investigating an employee gift featuring a sock monkey cartoon after receiving complaints that it was offensive. A photograph of a mug given as a gift to Black employees at Parkland Hospital. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price criticized the gift.(John Wiley Price/submitted) A vice president at Dallas County’s public hospital gave mugs …

A 44-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in the deaths of three people, one of whom was found in a Fort Worth car dealership and two who were found later in an abandoned building in Palo Pinto County. Police records show that Lamont Donnelle Cousins faces a capital murder charge in connection with the deaths of 65-year-old Virginia Lewis, 55-year-old Clayton …

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: COVID 19 vaccine given to health care workers at Dallas County’s Parkland A group of Parkland Memorial Hospital doctors and nurses talk about being inoculated with the new… What is …

Dallas County reported 1,947 new coronavirus cases and six COVID-19 deaths Tuesday. The latest fatalities were all Dallas residents: two men in their 50s and one woman each in their 40s, 60s, 70s and 80s. All had underlying health problems. Allen ISD reports 216 new cases in just over a month, 416 cases total Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas joined other …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — He’s a 39-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas and now, he’s made history becoming the first COVID-19 ICU nurse to receive the Pfizer vaccine at Memorial Hermann Hospital. He also became the first person in the entire city of Houston to receive it. In a room full of cameras, a visibly emotional Robert Luckey got his dose …