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Sugar Land Native Selects U.S. Navy Ship
Navy Midshipman Samuel Quach, from Sugar Land, Texas, participated in the 2019 spring Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) ship selection draft as a future member of the Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) community.
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Navy Midshipman Samuel Quach
Published on March 5, 2019
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Oscars Finally Getting It Right
Stand up and give the Oscars a round of applause. Kudos to the Oscars first off for one of if not the shortest show with no hosts. It was time out for all the not so funny, unnecessary bits and outfit changes that drugged out shows in the past.
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Snake on a Plane: Australian python makes 9,000-mile flight in woman's shoe
It's the Samuel L. Jackson sequel we've all been waiting for: A Scottish woman has survived a real-life case of a snake on a plane, finding a python curled up in her shoe after a 9,000 mile flight from Australia.
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Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that some employees say crosses a line
Satya Nadella has defended Microsoft's $479 million contract to supply augmented reality systems to the US military that has been criticized by some of his colleagues.
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Spike Lee, Regina King, “Black Panther” and More Win at 91st Academy Awards
2019 is arguably the year of #OscarsSoBlack. According to the Los Angeles Times, this year set the record for the most individual Black winners of Academy Awards, with seven victors in six categories.
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The top nine reasons to visit Houston in 2019
From its integral role in the world's first moon landing 50 years ago this July to a new lineup of appealing options in the arts and culinary scenes, Houston has never been more ripe for exploration.
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'Wage dispute' worker wrecks hotel in digger rampage
A construction worker used a mechanical digger to wreck the lobby of a new hotel in Liverpool, UK, in an apparent dispute over unpaid wages.
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What you'll see less of at CES this year: Chinese vendors
In another sign of the strains between the American and Chinese business worlds, the countries' technology cold war has boiled over to America's largest tech trade show.
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MIT invents method to shrink objects to nanoscale using basic lab equipment
Some say bigger is better, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will tell you that when it comes to tech, smaller things are far more impressive.
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"A Boy. A Girl. A Dream." Goes to Digital & On Demand This Friday!
SYNOPSIS: On the night of the 2016 Presidential election, Cass, an L.A. club promoter, takes a thrilling and emotional journey with Frida, a Midwestern visitor. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams - while he pushes her to discover hers.
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Sony Classical Reissues Black Composer Series: The Complete Album Collection (10-CD Box Set) Featuring Conductor Paul Freeman
In the 1970s, CBS Masterworks made a groundbreaking series of recordings featuring the music of black composers. The nine LPs released all featured the pioneering conductor Paul Freeman. Sony Classical is proud to reissue the complete Black Composer Series in a single original album collection with each CD remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24 bit/192 kHz technology.
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Teen admitted to getting in a fight with his father and killing him in his sleep
Broken Arrow Police state in police reports that Hayden Umdenstock admitted to getting in a fight with his father and killing him in his sleep.
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18-year-old Hayden Samuel Umdenstock has been arrested and charged with 1st Degree Murder in the death of his father, 42-year-old Zachary Umdenstock.
Published on December 9, 2018
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12-year-old passing out more than 2,000 blankets for homeless
A 12-year-old boy known for collecting blankets for the homeless is not taking a break this year.
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40th Annual Thanksgiving Super Feast
Photography by Vicky Pink - The smell of good food once again filled the George …
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This app puts a personal trainer in your ear
"Keep your elbows as close to your sides as possible," the personal trainer tells me as I start my last set of push-ups.
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Trump's demonization of the media can have deadly consequences
For a man with too much to say about too many things, President Donald Trump has maintained atypical restraint in the 17 days since since the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and was presumably murdered inside it by agents of the regime.
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Artist & Actress Cierra Ramirez Releases New Single "Bad Boys"
Tribeca Music/EMPIRE Records recording artist and actress, Cierra Ramirez today releases her new single “Bad Boys” after exclusively premiering the track yesterday on Complex who wrote: ”The track takes cues from Mase’s “Feel So Good” and Miami Sound Machine’s “Bad Boy.”
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Prairie View A&M Awarded $1 Million for African-¬‐American Studies Initiative
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) a grant of $500,000 to support its effort to establish an African-¬‐American Studies Initiative, which will be housed in its Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences.
