Many nonprofit organizations are temporarily closed for personal interactions because of COVID-19 social distancing procedures, but virtual and in-person opportunities still exist to help out. Here are four organizations that need your help. For more options, visit FWD>DFW (fwddfw.com) and VolunteerNow (voly.org). Dallas County Vaccine Mega Center Fair Park, Gate A, 3031 S. Haskell Ave., Dallas; 214-803-1843 Help community members …

A clean slate Anyone hit by power or water problems during the recent freeze no doubt welcomed the return of freshly laundered clothes. Being grateful, instead of groaning over doing another load, is at the center of Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore (Flatiron Books), an endearing, humorous and how-to-filled book by Patric Richardson, written with Karin B. Miller. Richardson …

Dan Cooper’s grandson spent the last year as a boy in a bubble. The eighth grader deals with respiratory health issues, uses two inhalers a day and occasionally requires a nebulizer. He is one of the few students at his Hill Country-area middle school who has remained a remote learner since the pandemic hit last March. The Ingram school district …

The bodies kept coming to the morgue, but none were leaving. Frozen to death from hypothermia. Poisoned by carbon monoxide. Trapped in home fires. Dead from crashes on icy roads. The Dallas County medical examiner’s Office was close to capacity and funeral homes couldn’t pick up bodies as the winter storm made roads icy and caused millions of power outages …

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price will take the COVID-19 vaccine Monday, and said Sunday he is encouraging others in the Black community to do the same. Misinformation about the shot, he said in a statement, has made some in the Black community skeptical of the safety of the vaccine. He said he hopes getting his own dose publicly will …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 36 more coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, surging the overall death toll to 12,896. According to the latest statistics of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), the COVID-19 has claimed 36 more lives and 1,392 fresh infections were reported. The total count of active cases is 22,098 and the positivity rate stands at …

LAHORE: The health minister of Punjab Dr Yasmin Rashid said Monday the province would soon begin to jab the citizens as it has arranged for about 170 million Covid-19 vaccine doses via Punjab corona fund. Speaking to media, the provincial health chief said soon the drive to jab ordinary citizens would begin wherein people aged 65 and above would be …

BERLIN: A last-gasp Alexander Sorloth goal sealed RB Leipzig’s dramatic 3-2 comeback win at home to Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday and kept them in the thick of the Bundesliga title race. Leipzig fought back with second-half goals by Christopher Nkunku and Yussuf Poulsen before Sorloth’s winning header in the 93rd minute after Gladbach had led 2-0 at half-time. We’ll try …

KARACHI: On his Instagram profile, Saim Shazli’s bio describes his golfing motto: “Swing fast, hit hard, hit long”. At the Karachi Golf Club on Sunday, the 24-year-old did exactly that to win a second title in three weeks. He did so by moving up the leaderboard at the Sindh Amateur Golf Championship one step at a time. Saim was in …