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Houston’s Trick-or-treating timeline: Tracking another chance of showers and storms on Halloween
Halloween Rain Timeline: Keep the umbrellas near by as another round of spotty to scattered showers and storms return Saturday. The first half the day is dry with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Rain begins to turn scattered Saturday evening so from 5 pm to 7 pm is when you need t...
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Driver killed in high-speed crash on Houston’s Sam Houston Parkway, police say
A driver believed to be an 18-year-old man died early Saturday after a single-vehicle crash near South Sam Houston Parkway West and South Post Oak Road, Houston police said. Southwest Patrol officers responded around 3 a.m. An off-duty officer who was waiting at a traffic light t...
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Man dies after being shot while riding bicycle in Houston’s Third Ward, police say
A 40-year-old man died after he was shot five times while riding his bicycle in Houston’s Third Ward late Friday night, police said. The shooting happened around 11:40 p.m. near the 2900 block of Callie Street. Witnesses saw and heard the gunfire, according to the Houston Police ...
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1649: Fessenden and Radio Sound
Episode: 1649 Reginald Fessenden endows radio with sound. Today, we add sound to radio.