Intensifying winds whipped palm trees and thundering waves crashed along the beaches of the Florida Panhandle and Alabama on Friday as Hurricane Isaias swirled just offshore, picking up speed as it charged toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Category 3 storm weakened only slightly in the afternoon an...
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A Katy-area husband and wife are accused of stealing millions of dollars' worth of high-end vehicles by hacking into a computer program used to ship cars across the country, according to newly filed court records....
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire followed through on a promise Thursday, handing a University of Houston student the keys to a new car months after her vehicle was riddled with police gunfire during an arrest attempt....
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A search for a missing teen swimmer in Surfside Beach on Friday has transitioned to recovery efforts, according to the Surfside Beach Police Department....
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The Texas Department of Insurance said Thursday that home and auto insurance rates are "trending down for many Texans."
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Nearly half of Houston-area respondents living in households earning less than $25,000 a year said they would be “not at all” or “not too prepared” if a natural disaster struck, according to a Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research study. The finding highlights a gap...
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Copper wire theft causes power outage for 2,000 residents in Cleveland, police say.
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A deadly crash on the I-610 East Loop southbound at Clinton Drive prompted all mainlanes to close on Friday, according to TxDOT.
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An ICE agent is in custody at a local hospital after police say he was shot after assaulting an elderly man and his daughter at a home in central Fresno....
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After coming out of the bullpen Thursday night to get the final three outs, Gavin Williams will start for the Cleveland Guardians in Saturday night's winner-take-all Game 5 of their AL Division Series against Sean Burke and the Chicago White Sox. “Gavin wants the ball. We want hi...
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A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Panama on Friday morning, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and prompting evacuations, according to the USGC....
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When Isa’s mother was afraid to send her nonverbal son to school at the start of third grade, Walt Disney Elementary teacher Jo Meek called that evening with a simple request: give her a chance. Within a week, Isa was “walking taller,” his mother wrote in Meek’s Teacher of the Mo...
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Five active lieutenants with the Pasadena Police Department have filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Assistant Chief James Holt was improperly hired under state law....
