North Texas School Districts Seeing More Demand For 'Grab And Go' Meals
School districts across North Texas now working to help families stretch food budgets while students are confined at home due to coronavirus outbreak restrictions.
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School districts across North Texas now working to help families stretch food budgets while students are confined at home due to coronavirus outbreak restrictions.
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD has changed its "Grab & Go" program that will allow students to pick up five days worth of meals once per week.
Both worked in the same unit and had "limited close contact with others while at work," the department stated.
The new cases bring the countywide total to 165 and the Denton State Supported Living Center (DSSLC) resident total to 45.
Due to the coronavirus, Gov. Abbott announced the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center will be opened as a healthcare facility and that he will halt the release of "dangerous criminals" in Texas.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says many were not practicing social distancing during the nice weather this weekend.
Former sports star and North Texas youth coach Orlando McDaniel passed away from the coronavirus Saturday morning. He was 59.
In these difficult times where COVID-19 has turned our world upside down, millions across the country have found themselves jobless.
DCPH has announced the second COVID-19 related death in Denton County, as well as 11 additional cases.
So far, one person has died from the virus, 10 have recovered, three are currently hospitalized and 25 are self-isolating at home.
J.L. Long Middle School in Dallas decided to do that by holding a virtual fire drill. They asked their students and staff to go outside, take their pictures and share them on social media.
Investigators believe the operator, 20-year-old Payton Fischer, was traveling the ATV westbound on Melissa Dianne Drive with two other occupants when she lost control and struck the curb.
The 8th and 9th deaths from COVID-19 are being reported as a DeSoto man in his 50s and a Dallas man in his 70s.
In a hearing Friday afternoon, Judge Jill Willis agreed the Mayor George Fuller's order to close down non-essential businesses conflicted with a countywide order.
Amid the public's growing concern about the spread of COVID-19, CBS 11's Doug Dunbar spoke with Texas Governor Greg Abbott Friday evening and asked some questions regarding the virus in the Lone Star State.
Subira was being treated for a mild cough in the days leading up to his death, but zoologists had no reason to believe that the cough was indicative of "anything more than a common cold."
By next week, Get Shift Done will have paid out more than $400,000 to workers, while providing much-needed relief to organizations that have lost staff and volunteers due to stay home orders.
Hundreds of thousands of Texans have lost their jobs due to COVID-19. But many people will still be expected to pay rent come Apr. 1.
Police have arrested a suspect they say beat his coworker to death while on a job site in Dallas Friday morning.
Just a week after a Plano police officer tested positive for COVID-19, two more PPD employees followed suit.
Specially trained paramedics with MedStar will be sent to the homes of Tarrant County residents who are being investigated by officials as possibly having the virus.
North Texas members of congress are voicing their support after the House passed a $2.2 trillion bill that will provide economic relief for Americans and businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our daily lives. But many residents in North Texas are finding ways to entertain themselves while being ordered to stay indoors.
The questions about COVID-19 keep coming, so CBS 11 took some of them to an infectious disease specialist at Texas Health Resources, Dr. Nikhil Bhayani.
Dallas County's shelter-in-place order has not stopped people from committing crimes — Garland police have received reports of temporarily closed businesses being broken into.
