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Former Texas state Rep. Garnet Coleman, a Houston Democrat who represented the city’s Third Ward and surrounding areas in the Texas House for more than 30 years, died at age 65. His family said he died of natural causes. Coleman was first elected in 1991 and served until his reti...
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Former Texas State Rep. Garnet Coleman, a longtime Houston legislator whose three decades of public service were marked by a commitment to health care, social justice, voting rights, education, and community development, died Sept. 23, 2026. He was 65. Coleman was born in Washing...
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Two of America’s most celebrated classically trained painters — husband and wife David Larned and Sarah Lamb — are among a crop of Young Turks who began reviving the almost lost art of realism starting in the 1990s. While realism in painting goes back to the Renaissance, it also ...
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Prairie View – Prairie View A&M University senior golfer Joah Bramwell can’t escape the feeling of being home again on The Hill. It’s definitely a different feeling when, a couple of years ago, the Cypress native made the difficult decision to uproot his game and himself from Pra...
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Houston police are asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect accused of robbing a man in east Houston. The robbery happened around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, August 26, near a business on Sultan Drive. Police say the victim was sitting in his parked vehicle when a man approac...
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A nurse is accused of beating a prematurely born 4-month-old baby girl at a Michigan hospital, leaving the infant with broken bones and bruises, including injuries to her tongue, according to reports....
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Multiple arrests have been made after a search warrant was executed in North Houston on Thursday evening, DPS officials said.
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The Richwood police department is warning residents about a cryptocurrency machine in a gas station on North Brazosport Boulevard. They say scammers reportedly told victims to deposit cash into the machine at a Shell station and then send them a digital wallet address. Officials ...
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According to officials, Willian Antonio Dardon-Soto previously entered the U.S. illegally in 2016. He was arrested and deported that same year. On an unknown date, he re-entered the U.S. illegally and hadn’t encountered ICE officials until his arrest on Tuesday....
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A grand jury previously decided not to take action against Galveston Police Officer Joshua Nino De Guzman, who fatally shot Randy Martin during a traffic stop in May....
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Chancellor Brandon Creighton and Cody Campbell, who chairs Tech's Board of Regents, are identified by their official university titles on the invitation to the Sept. 29 fundraiser. Lubbock County Democrats are questioning whether their public positions — or university resources —...
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Grammy-nominated recording artist Frankie J is pleading for the return of more than $100,000 worth of stolen studio equipment and career awards taken from his New Caney, Texas, storage unit....
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A 14-year-old is facing a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Royce Witchet — but whether that teen will ever be prosecuted as an adult is a question that won’t be answered anytime soon. The shooting happened around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday on a sidewalk o...
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WalletHub ranked all 50 states showing which ones had mortgage rates increasing faster than others.
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The Department of Homeland Security has said all ICE field agents are expected to have body-worn cameras by the end of September. But as that deadline approaches, shootings involving ICE agents in Houston, Austin and Maine are raising a larger question: Will the promised body-cam...
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67-year-old Donald Ray McCray was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison for mailing threatening communications towards several judges in Fort Worth and Amarillo....
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An Ohio man was arrested after allegedly hiding in the ceiling above a college women’s soccer locker room and photographing players as they changed.
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A 14-year-old suspect has been charged with murder following a deadly shooting of a 15-year-old student near Westfield High School on Tuesday afternoon....
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Pasadena police have identified a man accused of using a mobile phone to illegally record a woman while she was changing inside an Old Navy fitting room on Fairmont Parkway....
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A former Navy veteran has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after a yearslong scheme to rig contracts and defraud the Navy of more than $9 million....
