A teacher wounded in last week's attack on a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school never had a chance to try to shelter any of the children inside, she said Wednesday in a statement issued by a family friend. Becky Drury said she ran to see what was going on but immediately s...
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Houston Texans QB C.J. Stroud has been named AFC Offensive Player of the Week, the NFL announced today. In Week 6, Stroud earned a 116.3 passer rating while completing 24-of-34 (70.6%) passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns in a 34-31 victory against Jacksonville. Stroud led t...
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A 27-year-old Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
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Shepherd ISD is warning families about a chickenpox outbreak at Shepherd High School, saying it is monitoring the situation and taking precautions to protect students and staff....
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Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico closed out the night on Wednesday with a rally at Safari Texas Ranch in Fort Bend County after a day filled with appearances across the Houston area....
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A 15-year-old girl says her bed likely saved her life when a suspected drunken driver crashed into her bedroom Monday evening in northwest Harris County....
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Early Look: Over the past day and a half, the major computer models have started to trend towards a rainier and cooler Halloween for southeast Texas this year. We are still ten days out and plenty can change, but the trend is moving in a wetter direction. Right now, we’ll keep ra...
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Houston city leaders are considering new restrictions on where gas stations can be built, a move that comes months after residents in Riverside Terrace fought against a proposed gas station and convenience store near their homes....
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Harris County has seen record-breaking turn out in three days of early voting but a University of Houston political science expert cautions reading into what the results will be....
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Community advocates, FIEL Houston and state representatives are demanding accountability from Houston ISD after adults at a high school volleyball game allegedly threatened to call ICE on students’ parents, and the confrontation was caught on video. The incident happened during a...
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Texas Southern University police have issued a warning after residents at the Transformation Village apartments reported being robbed at gunpoint by two unknown suspects. The incident happened Wednesday at the apartments located on Rosewood Street. An alert sent out by TSU police...
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts is shutting down the popular and influential game development studio BioWare after more than three decades. The upcoming “Mass Effect” game, the fifth since 2007, has been canceled. BioWare announced the closure on social media Wednesday follo...
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Hail the size of golf balls and damaging wind gusts pounded northern and central Arizona in a rare storm blowing through, bringing with it tornado risks and possible flash floods. The National Weather Service issued multiple warnings as severe thunderstorms moved through the stat...
