Piers Morgan has expressed his concerns for the health of British Queen Elizabeth after Prince Charles was tested positive for coronavirus. He took to Twitter and said, “Prince Charles testing positive for covid just 2 days after seeing the Queen is filling me with deep unease. Prince Charles, the eldest son and heir to Queen Elizabeth II, is isolating after testing positive for coronavirus for the second time, his office said on Thursday. “The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now self-isolating,” said a message on the prince´s official Twitter page. According to British media, the…
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Music icon Shakira has joined the popular That’s Not My Name trend. While the Internet is buzzing with the latest social media trend, the Waka Waka famed crooner also shared the clippings of some of her iconic performances of her career. Joining the viral trend, the Hips Don’t Lie singer turned to her Instagram handle and shared the reel with caption, “My name is Shakira, but they call me… Mi nombre es Shakira, pero me dicen… #ThatsNotMyName” The clip features the queen of pop’s iconic performances in hit music videos including, Wolf and Loca. Take a look.
AUSTIN — Sarah Weddington had a high-profile life in government, politics and law, making history along the way as the lawyer who argued the landmark Roe vs. Wade case before the U.S. Supreme Court that effectively legalized abortion across the nation in the early 1970s. But Thursday’s memorial for Weddington at the hallowed Texas State Cemetery was a relatively low-key affair, attended by dozens of friends, students and family members. Some wore suits and cowboy hats, others wore feminist pins or T-shirts. The message of one pin: “Trust Women.” Weddington, who died Dec. 26, was buried a few feet away from Gov. Ann Richards,…
Lawson Road is a major boulevard for residents in South Mesquite — and it’s getting some updates funded by a Texas Department of Transportation grant. Mesquite was awarded a TxDOT grant worth $400,000 to give the two-lane, poorly lit roadway a facelift that will include adding three feet of shoulder and a safety guardrail on both sides of Lawson Road between East Cartwright Road and Milam Road. The TxDOT funding will finance 90% of the project, according to the city. “Many of us out in the south part of Mesquite have been waiting a long time for anything to be…
A favorite Super Bowl ingredient — the humble avocado — will return to the small screen during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI. Irving-based Avocados from Mexico developed the commercial, which features late-night sidekick Andy Richter as Roman general Julius Caesar strolling through a tailgate party at the Roman Colosseum. The agency has released the 30-second commercial, which will air during the first quarter of the game. The commercial will help launch the agency’s new marketing campaign called “Addvocados,” which highlights the avocado’s “good taste, good nutrition and good times when eating it,” President and CEO of Avocados from Mexico Alvaro Luque said. This…
Seventy-seven percent of Mesquite residents over the age of 18 have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to recent data from Dallas County. The county report does not indicate what percentage of Dallas County residents have received a booster shot. Vaccination rates Dallas County tracks vaccination rates across area cities. Here’s a look at Mesquite’s vaccination rates compared with nearby cities and the county average, according to a Jan. 22 county report. Mesquite Garland Dallas Sunnyvale Seagoville Balch Springs County-wide Percentage of residents over the age of 18 who have received at least one dose 77%…
The work week will end with the warmest weather of the week as Friday temperatures climb into the mid to upper 70s. A big weekend weather change is in store for Saturday with the arrival of a strong cold front Friday evening. This front will bring a return to chilly and windy weather Saturday. Highs are only expected to make the low 50s, but it will feel colder thanks to a brisk north wind. Saturday will be a heavy sweatshirt day for sure. The next freeze will come Sunday morning before temperatures turn around once again. The 60s will return…
A Mansfield sixth-grader nationally known for his volunteering and humanitarian efforts was named TIME Magazine’s 2021 Kid of the Year. Orion Jean, 11, has spent the past two years launching various fundraising and donation efforts throughout North Texas. “One thing I’ve learned throughout this process,” Jean told TIME, “is that when people come together for a common cause, great things can happen. When people see a need and they are provided an opportunity to help, most people will.” Orion Jean, an 11-year-old Mansfield student, was named Time Magazine’s Kid of the Year.(Time Magazine) In 2020, Jean won the National Kindness Speech Contest. He…
CHICAGO (AP) — Jerry Harris, former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of receiving child pornography and soliciting sex from minors that could keep him in prison for decades. During a change of plea hearing in federal court in Chicago, Harris pleaded guilty to one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and one count of receiving child pornography, a U.S. attorney’s office spokesman said. Harris, 22, pleaded guilty to two of seven felony counts against him, one for persuading a 17-year-old to send him sexually explicit photographs…
Three North Texas laboratory companies are charged with participating in a bribery scheme where doctors were offered kickbacks to order millions of dollars worth of unnecessary tests. The scheme resulted in over $300 million being billed to federal health care programs, like Medicare, according to a federal indictment. Two doctors and eight others are accused of health care fraud in the indictment after several federal offices, including the FBI Dallas field office, investigated the case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced Thursday. “Illegal kickback schemes corrupt the health care system,” Dallas FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew…
