AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austin’s top health authority is offering coronavirus vaccines to Texas lawmakers and their key staffers, regardless of whether they are currently eligible under state guidelines. Dr. Mark Escott, interim medical director for Austin Public Health, confirmed to The Dallas Morning News on Thursday that he organized the vaccination effort with Ascension Seton, a…… MORE
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) According to the state’s data more than 1 point 1 million people in Texas have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. 167,000 are fully listed as fully immunized. That includes more than 81,000 residents of Dallas County, and 59,000 in Tarrant County. Dallas County reported 1,377 new coronavirus cases Sunday,…… MORE
Nashville (WBAP/KLIF) – A former soccer star at Wylie High School, who recently became the first woman to score a point in a Power Five Conference college football game has been invited to attend Wednesday’s inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden, and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in Washington, DC. In-person attendance at the inauguration will be…… MORE
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico county official who runs a group called Cowboys for Trump and who had vowed to return to Washington after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been arrested by the FBI. Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin…… MORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS – President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal for national unity when he’s sworn in Wednesday and he plans immediate moves to combat the coronavirus pandemic and undo some of President Donald Trump’s most controversial policies. That, according to his incoming chief of staff. Biden intends a series of executive actions in his…… MORE