MISSOURI CITY (AP) – A female employee opened fire at a Houston-area food distribution center early Monday, killing one person and wounding another, police said.
While a government contractor bears responsibility for educating children at the highly guarded center, local officials say they stepped up partly because of a law that calls on school systems to educate any child, anywhere within their district.
WACO, Texas (AP) – Much of the history of La Salle Avenue sits in plain sight.
The Houston Chronicle reports that the 46-year-old Sheikh admitted he had sexual contact with the woman during the night shift at Ben Taub Hospital in 2013, but told jurors it was consensual.
The Houston Independent School District says the sign that read, “The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman,” was removed Friday night.
VICTORIA, Texas (AP) — Records show that a former Texas congressman had tried steering a federal contract to the owner of a business who gave him a $160,000-a-year job after the congressman resigned amid sexual harassment allegations.
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — Students in Santa Fe, Texas, will begin a new school year with additional security measures in place following a shooting in May that left 10 people dead.
HOUSTON (AP) – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has stopped funding a Houston hospital’s renowned heart transplant program amid scrutiny over patient deaths.
HOUSTON (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for attempting to blow up a Confederate statue last summer at a Houston park.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Police say a 21-year-old man has died after being shot by officers who were responding to a chaotic scene outside a downtown Austin club where several fights broke out and gunfire was reported.
Wednesday, we told you the story of Kral and Syri, two dogs adopted by members of the Air Force while they served in the Middle
DALLAS (AP) – The weekend will start a day early for children in a Texas school district that’s adopted a four-day week, a move seen as the first of its kind in this state since lawmakers gave schools greater leeway in setting their calendars.
A small earthquake shook a town near San Antonio this morning.
It was a Texas-sized shrimp dream, to breed tasty crustaceans far from shore but close to transportation hubs that would speed fresh seafood to swanky restaurants as far away as New York or Las Vegas.
A murder trial for a former Texas police officer who killed a black teenager highlights the heightened role video evidence plays in high-profile police shootings that have stirred discourse and triggered protests nationwide over issues of race and law enforcement.
