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Allen gives nearly 43,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine as state expands eligibility to Texans age 50 and up Register for vaccine appointment alerts through the Allen Fire Department online. As of Thursday morning, the fire department had administered nearly 43,00 vaccines: 27,948 first doses and 14,847 second doses.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) The Allen Fire Department has administered more than 40,000 COVID-19 vaccines since opening Eagle Stadium as a state vaccination hub in January. The miles...

Dallas County reported 31 more COVID-19 deaths and 265 new coronavirus cases Tuesday — a year after North Texas’ first “presumptive positive” case of the...

Man arrested after Arlington hit-and-run that left motorcyclist dead in October Chuco Mario Martinez II, 27, faces a charge of accident involving death. File photo.(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) A suspect is in custody nearly five months after a hit-and-run crash that left a motorcyclist dead in Arlington. Chuco Mario Martinez II, 27, was arrested early Sunday in Castle Hills, just north of downtown San Antonio, on a charge of accident involving death. Arlington officers were called the e...

Across the state, 2,953 more coronavirus cases were reported Sunday, including 2,420 new cases and 533 older ones that were recently reported by labs. The...

Dallas County reported 26 more COVID-19 deaths and 458 new coronavirus cases Friday. The victims were mostly in their 60s and older, but one was a man in...

Will February’s winter storms result in an uptick in COVID-19 cases? Health experts say it’s hard to say Even as hundreds of thousands sought refuge in warming shelters and others’ homes, many others stayed put, health experts say. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas was opened up as a warming shelter during last months bitterly cold winter storms.(Ali Hendricksen) More than two weeks after winter storms wreaked havoc across Texas, some health experts worry the extreme ...

Dallas County reported 25 more COVID-19 deaths and 372 new coronavirus cases Saturday. County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement that this was...

Dallas County reported 27 more COVID-19 deaths and 781 new coronavirus cases Thursday. Tarrant County, meanwhile, reported 18 more fatalities. That brings...

Oncor apologizes to Dallas city leaders for winter storm outages, vows better communication with public City Council members criticized the electricity distributor, saying residents were left confused and misinformed about the outages and how long they would last. An Oncor crew works on along Elsie Faye Higgins Street as power outages continue across the state after a second winter storm brought more snow and continued freezing temperatures to North Texas on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Dallas....

Dallas County on Wednesday reported 718 new coronavirus cases and 26 more COVID-19 deaths. The latest victims were mostly in their 60s and older. Eleven...