All Collin County residents will be able to receive the swine flu vaccine starting Monday, the county health department announced Friday. Here's the latest from DMN colleague Ed Housewright: Currently, it's available only to high-risk groups, including pregnant women, people...
Where are all the H1N1 vaccines for Collin County? More have arrived. But they will be available only to people in high-risk categories, health officials say. That includes pregnant women, people who live with or care for children younger than...
Jeffrey Weiss, The Dallas Morning News reporter who is tracking swine flu these days, has likened getting an H1N1 shot to winning Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket. His editor gets the actual credit for the analogy. But Weiss makes a good...
(AP/Harry Cabluck) It's hard to manage a packed class, but it's almost as difficult to teach lessons when students keep missing them. Concerns about the H1NI virus have kept students out of the classroom throughout North Texas, with Frisco seeing...
A Collin County middle school was closed Monday because of rising absenteeism among students with flu-like symptoms. More than 250 students - nearly one in three - missed school Friday at Sloan Creek Middle School in Fairview. Some 14 teachers...
A Collin County middle school was closed Monday because of rising absenteeism among students with flu-like symptoms. More than 250 students - nearly one in three - missed school Friday at Sloan Creek Middle School in Fairview. Some 14 teachers...
Hospital visits and school absences are up throughout the region due to swine flu concerns, The Dallas Morning News reported today. Frisco ISD has sent home letters to parents when about 10 percent of a school is absent due to...
Several Frisco schools have sent letters home to parents warning of an increase in "flu-like" symptoms, including Centennial High, Griffin and Clark middle schools and Allen Elementary. The district has crafted the note for schools that see a spike in...
Several Frisco schools have sent letters home to parents warning of an increase in "flu-like" symptoms, including Centennial High, Griffin and Clark middle schools and Allen Elementary. The district has crafted the note for schools that see a spike in...
Frisco ISD is starting to see cases of flu and flu-like symptoms, the district informed parents in an email and phone call today. They were in both English and Spanish. District officials said this does not mean students have swine...
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) Hand sanitizer is the most prevalent prevention against swine flu in the region's schools this fall, reports Ian McCann in today's Dallas Morning News. Collin County hasn't experienced an outbreak this school year but the county may...
The Frisco City Council voted unanimously Monday night to adopt a new ordinance that sets the fee for alcohol permits involving liquore stores. The new ordinance also updates fees for other alcohol permits. City attorney Richard Abernathy noted for the...
Let the games begin...again. Frisco interscholastic competitions will resume this Thursday, four days ahead of schedule. The UIL made the switch after recommendations from state and federal health services. What's spring without baseball, anyway?...
Alexandre Meneghini/AP Frisco ISD continues to report no cases of swine flu, despite yesterday's rumors that the mislabeled disease had spread to the city's schools. In fact, schools are reporting the opposite: openings. Plano officials are going to reopen three...
Frisco is a city known for its schools. It's time that The Dallas Morning News focused more closely on one of the fastest growing school districts in the country. I'll be the one doing it. But it takes honest and...
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