Site Map August 17, 2021
Years 2021 August 17
- Plano Balloon Festival canceled for second year due to COVID-19
- Some Afghan refugees fleeing Taliban control will be resettled across North Texas
- Human remains discovered in wheel well of C-17 that departed Kabul with Afghans clinging to it
- Twitter tests feature that allows users to flag misleading tweets
- North Texas school districts monitoring attendance levels amid COVID-19 resurgence
- TSA to extend mask mandate for travelers through January 2022
- North Texas health officials frustrated with lack of tools to combat latest COVID surge
- Guidance expected on COVID-19 booster shots for all vaccinated Americans
- Haiti earthquake: Death toll soars past 1,900
- Hundreds of Afghans pack US military plane to escape Taliban control
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID-19
- Joshua ISD staff to receive 4% pay raise, $1,000 bonus for work during pandemic
- Fred weakens to tropical depression, spawns floods, tornadoes on East Coast
- Parent physically assaults Texas teacher, rips mask off her face
- Airbnb enforcing anti-party restrictions for Halloween 2021
- Taliban vows women's rights, security under Islamic rule of Afghanistan
- Border Patrol seizes over 3,800 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards in August
- Fort Worth council votes against mask mandate inside city buildings
- Las Vegas Raiders to require vaccines for fans at home games
- Texas requests five mortuary trailers as COVID continues to surge