Parkland Health & Hospital System has filled its additional COVID-19 wards less than a week after they were opened as the highly contagious omicron variant continues to spread through North Texas. The area’s largest public hospital system had about 170 COVID-19 patients Monday, another “high watermark” for the latest omicron-fueled wave, said Dr. Joseph Chang, Parkland’s chief medical officer. That’s a 60-patient increase from 110 COVID-19 patients last Monday. While Parkland evaluates other options to accommodate the patient increase, opening more rooms is becoming increasingly difficult as the hospital deals with other diseases during the winter, Chang said. Parkland Memorial…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
A 70-year-old woman died at a hospital after she was pulled from a burning Red Bird apartment building, Dallas-Fire Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said. Shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, emergency crews responded to a fire at the Mandalay Palms Apartments in the 3100 block of Cliff Creek Crossing Drive near South Hampton Road. Firefighters found fire coming from the first-floor balcony of a two-story apartment building, and helped multiple people, including two women in their 70s, escape, Evans said. Both women were taken to the hospital to be treated for their injuries, Evans said. One woman was pronounced dead at…
Four of the Garland’s City Council’s nine seats are up for grabs in just a few months. Places 1, 2, 4 and 5 will be on the ballot in the May 7 general election. Council members elected to places 1 through 8 serve specific districts with geographic boundaries. The mayor, whose seat isn’t on the ballot in this race, is elected in an at-large capacity. The candidate filing period opens on Jan. 19 and closes on Feb. 18. Other key dates to know for the election: Feb. 18 is the last day to apply for a mail ballot. April 7 is…
Tonight will still feature temperatures near freezing, but it won’t be as cold as recent nights. Tuesday will offer a nice warm up into the upper 50s to mid 60s across North Texas. However there will be a gusty south wind of 15-25 mph. The warm up won’t last long as the next cold front will move through the area early Wednesday, knocking our highs back into the 50s. Thursday and Friday will be quite cold and blustery with highs only in the 40s. Temperatures will start to rebound again by Saturday. Latest Forecast TONIGHT: Clear and cold. Low: 32.…
Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty Monday of criminal fraud after she built her blood-testing startup Theranos Inc. into a $9 billion company only to see it collapse in scandal. A jury in San Jose, California, returned the verdict after hearing three months of testimony that was often technical, heavily contested and, from Holmes herself, shocking. Unless the decision is overturned on appeal, the 37-year-old new mother faces as long as 20 years in prison, though she’s likely to be sentenced to far less than that. Holmes, wearing a mask in the courtroom as everyone else did, stayed perfectly still and…
Texas abortion providers are again asking the Supreme Court to make the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals send their challenge to Senate Bill 8, which prohibits abortions after approximately six weeks in the state, to a state district court for prompt action. The Texas abortion providers were set to have their case heard in the 5th Circuit on Friday, but the challengers petitioned the high court on Monday to bring their case back to the state district level. “We filed this request today because the case should be sent back to the district court immediately so that the case can proceed against…
COLORADO CITY — The ex-boyfriend of the mother of a 13-year-old West Texas girl reported missing more than a decade ago has been indicted for murder in the girl’s death. The Mitchell County grand jury indicted Shawn Casey Adkins, 36, of Big Spring on a murder count Thursday in the death of Hailey Dunn. Adkins has been in Mitchell County Detention Center since his arrest last June with bonds totaling $1.25 million. Jail records did not list an attorney for Adkins. The Colorado City Middle School student and cheerleader was reported missing in December 2010. Dunn’s body was found in…
An attorney for a father facing a capital murder charge on suspicion of driving his son to a gas station where the 14-year-old allegedly shot and killed three teenagers said Monday that he believes evidence will show the father is innocent and didn’t know his son had a gun. Richard Acosta Jr., 33, was arrested last week. Police said he drove his son, Abel Elias Acosta, to and from the Texaco station in the 700 block of West Walnut Street, near downtown Garland, where four teens were shot, three fatally on Dec. 26. The father’s attorney, Heath Harris, said he believes…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — No more monthly child tax credit payments are coming, but the IRS is sending more information to parents, which could help them figure out if they owe money on their taxes. LETTERS ARE ON THE WAY TO UPDATE PARENTS ON THEIR CHILD TAX CREDIT In 2021, Congress changed the child tax credit. The credit altered from $2,000 to upwards of $3,600 per child. Parents could also receive an advance of half of the credit in the form of a monthly payment. The final payment was delivered in December. Now, parents are hearing from the IRS again. Tax preparer,…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who was outspoken about an unfounded claim of African Americans being the “biggest group” of unvaccinated people driving a COVID-19 surge in mid-2021, tested positive for the virus in the midst of a resurgence driven by the highly-contagious omicron variant. The second-highest political seat-holder in the state experienced mild symptoms before testing positive last week, Patrick’s campaign said in a statement released Monday. “He has subsequently tested negative and is completing his quarantine period,” the statement added. Editor’s note: The video above is from an August 2021 report on Lt. Gov. Patrick’s comments…
