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In Grand Prairie, five COVID-19 deaths this week as cases slow


October 22, 2021

Five Grand Prairie residents died in the past week from COVID-19, according to the city. The total number of COVID-19 cases in Grand Prairie has reached 30,333 since the pandemic began last year, an increase of 330 over last week. Grand Prairie has recorded a total of 332 COVID-related deaths since the pandemic began, according to the city’s dashboard. In North …

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Lawsuit claims developer Bill Hutchinson gave Texas woman incurable STD during sexual assaults


October 22, 2021

Another woman has sued William Lewald “Bill” Hutchinson, alleging that the Dallas-area developer sexually assaulted her on two occasions last year and gave her a sexually transmitted disease. The allegations were added to a lawsuit filed in July by a McLennan County woman who said Hutchinson, 63, sexually assaulted her in June 2020. The initial accuser, referred to as Jane Doe 1, …

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Texas power plants must make ‘best efforts’ to fix problems that led to electric grid failure


October 22, 2021

Operators of power plants and transmission lines that are part of the Texas electric grid have until Dec. 1 to make their “best efforts” to fix known problems that led to failures during last February’s deadly freeze and to implement decade-old winterization recommendations that state regulators largely disregarded until this year. That’s the crux of new rules approved Thursday by …

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CDC expands coronavirus booster rollout, OKs mixing shots


October 22, 2021

WASHINGTON — Millions more Americans can get a COVID-19 booster and choose a different company’s vaccine for that next shot, federal health officials said Thursday. Certain people who received Pfizer vaccinations months ago already are eligible for a booster and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says specific Moderna and Johnson & Johnson recipients qualify, too. And in …

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Allen ISD parents refile mask mandate lawsuit, adding McKinney ISD, TEA as defendants


October 22, 2021

An attorney representing parents in Allen ISD refiled a federal civil rights lawsuit today over their school district’s lack of a mask mandate, adding the parents as plaintiffs to a lawsuit originally filed late last month against Frisco ISD, Lago Vista ISD, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD and Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. The amended complaint — filed in U.S. district court in the Western District of Texas …

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