Hurricane Vance rapidly strengthened into a Category 2 storm Friday as it neared Mexico’s Pacific Coast, the National Hurricane Center said. Vance had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph (170 kph) as it churned about 425 miles (685 kilometers) south-southwest of Acapulco, according to an advisory...
Local
Harris County is seeing record early voting turnout this midterm cycle, and a Cypress community center has overtaken a longtime downtown favorite as the busiest polling location....
government
Houston's mayor's office presented City Council with a proposed ordinance to restrict where new gas stations can be located near residential areas.
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A mountain climb becomes a much bigger journey in “Uhuru,” a new dramedy at Houston’s Alley Theatre . Written by Gloria Majule and directed by Shariffa Ali , the production follows an unlikely group attempting a “Tanzanian-only” climb up Mount Kilimanjaro. Along the way, the char...
business
If Tesla chooses Fort Bend County as the location for the new solar manufacturing facility, the company will be required to employ a minimum of 8,700-plus workers by the time the site is fully operational, in exchange for the tax break from the county....
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed a willingness to make a deal to end his country's war with Russia and lamented diminished U.S. assistance....
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Deputy Kenneth Lewis passed away two days after he was hit by a vehicle in late February.
schools
Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was fatally beaten in her off-campus apartment in 2012....
schools
Parts of Mississippi’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools can take effect after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that blocked enforcement....
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Houston water customers continue to question unusually high bills, with some saying they struggle to get answers from the city’s Public Works Department. “Every time I have communicated with someone from the Public Works Department, it feels like a dead end and nobody will help,”...
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President Donald Trump on Friday told a rally for candidates in South Florida that U.S. warships returning from the Middle East could stop over in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby country. Trump fi...
safety
An upstate New York woman who says she only recently learned she wasn’t born in the U.S. has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections. Marva Cook was adopted a...
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President Trump says he directed the DOJ to preemptively file a lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses....
