Bill Zeeble
ReporterBill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.
He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.
His first real radio gig was with a classical station in Corpus Christi, where the new Texan was dubbed “Billy Ted”; he was also a manager at WNO-FM in New Orleans.
Several stories he covered on television for KERA 13 helped homeowners avoid losing their homes.
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Hundreds of pilots will soon return to flying as passengers book more and more flights. Still, American Airlines expects it could take months or years to recover from the devastating pandemic. -
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report on Wednesday, providing new details on February’s deadly pileup on I-35 in Fort Worth. The report says roads were treated for ice 44 hours before the collision occurred.
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The incumbents in the races for the Collin College Board of Trustees back school president Neil Matkin, who is facing a backlash for terminating several professors.
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Parents of the targeted children say the letter informing others in the district about the racial bullying lacked harsh truths that need to be told.
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The study will focus on what jobs are needed now and in the future as the pandemic highlights weak spots in the economy.
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With just nine weeks left in the school year, district officials fear that too many students won't graduate if seniors don't return for in-person instruction every day the rest of the way.
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Many Texans may be eligible for grants through the Federal Emergency Management Agency or loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Dallas is getting thousands more COVID-19 vaccines this week. But the number of volunteers who help things run smoothly at Fair Park are dropping off.
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Communities in Schools (CIS) works with at-risk students and its services are even more important because the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health challenges.
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The North Texas Food Bank has served many millions more than it expected to over the last year, and it had to think about how to distribute and acquire that food for its constituents.
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There have been dozens of conflicts across the state tied to public safety protocols. At Collin College, three professors spoke out about the school’s handling of the coronavirus and now they’re fighting to keep their jobs.
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Students at the historically Black college in Dallas have endured hardship — something not unfamiliar to the college itself, which faced financial problems and low graduation rates in the past.
