Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning early Monday that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics. But it wasn't long before the California scientist asked for a break from all the attention fo...
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Hours later, authorities say that the barricade situation ended peacefully with the suspect taken into custody and the infant unharmed and taken safely by authorities....
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A east Houston family's home was turned upside down during an unusual home invasion.
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Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause....
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A standoff involving a barricaded suspect and a 3-month-old baby boy has ended safely, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
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Sloppy defense cost the Yankees a first-inning run in Game 2 of their AL Division Series against the Rays on Monday night. New York made three errors in the inning and nearly a fourth, but ace right-hander Cam Schlittler held Tampa Bay to one run. Third baseman Ryan McMahon mispl...
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Harris County Precinct 7 Constable deputies and HCSO SWAT got to the home on Princess Garden Way near W Orem Drive earlier Monday afternoon, where an armed man was barricadeed inside with the baby boy. Authorities say the safety of the infant and everyone involved was their prior...
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A tropical system is getting better organized in the Gulf and I wanted to give you a Monday evening update and, most importantly, explain what it could mean for Southeast Texas. Right now, Invest 92L has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next two days and an 80% ch...
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A Nicaraguan exile who was imprisoned and tortured after protesting against the government was deported by the U.S. back to his country, where he was immediately imprisoned once again by authorities, family members and his lawyer confirmed Monday. Upon climbing off the U.S. depor...
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The White Sox are returning to Chicago one win from advancing to the American League Championship Series for the first time in 21 years. Braden Montgomery lined a two-run double down the right-field line in the sixth inning for the go-ahead runs and Sean Burke allowed one hit in ...
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The cost of groceries, rent and utilities keeps climbing — and more families are hitting a breaking point. Local nonprofits in Galveston County say they’re seeing more people walk through their doors looking for help — including people who have never needed it before. Tuesday thr...
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A mother and father were shot to death Monday morning in the driveway of their northside home, and Houston police say the suspect is the woman's ex-boyfriend....
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An American citizen shot by a Customs and Border Protection agent one year ago during a sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday, alleging the agent lied about the shooting and fired into her vehicle from behind. Federal p...
