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District Attorney Drops Felony Indictments Against Representative Dawnna Dukes
A Texas prosecutor was once fond of saying there are crimes and there are sins, and you can only prosecute the crimes. On Monday, State Representative Dawnna Dukes’s lies and misuse of office were downgraded from potential felonies to mere transgressions.
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Houston Astros Show Their Strength and Resilience to Earn History
History has a funny way of repeating itself. It has been twelve years since the last category three or stronger hurricane made landfall on the United States soil. Ironically, it was also the last time the Houston Astros made it to the World Series.
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Choice Partners Annual Nutrition Expo Debuts New Products to Area Schools
Choice Partners, Harris County Department of Education’s purchasing cooperative, hosted its annual School Nutrition Expo on Wednesday at Humble Civic Center. The event featured more than 130 food and equipment vendors, making it the largest in the program's history.
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Is Your Modern Lifestyle Depleting Your Vital Force? Five Ways to Restore Your Mitochondria and Safeguard Your Health
What do busy lifestyles, environmental toxins, bad habits, and stress have in common? They're all wreaking havoc on your body and depleting your Vital Force. But integrative cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, MD, FACC, and spiritual counselor Tommy Rosa say you can restore the mitochondria that supports Vital Force and secure your health. Here, they show you how.
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Introduces Legislation To Modernize the Military Selective Service Act
Jackson Lee: “Given the reckless rhetoric of the Commander in Chief who has stoked tensions with our adversaries around the world, the United States must modernize the Military Selective Service Act to be prepared to meet and defeat any aggressor.”
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Governor Abbott Announces $4.6 Million Supplemental Grant For Texas Child Advocacy Centers
Governor Greg Abbott announced today that his Criminal Justice Division has awarded a supplemental grant of $4.6 million to Child Advocacy Centers of Texas. This grant is in addition to a current grant of $56.3 million awarded to the organization in October 2016. This supplemental grant will allow for a more aggressive effort to address gaps in services to child abuse victims in Texas.
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Attention Graduating HS Seniors: The Tom Joyner Foundation Now Accepting Applications Full Ride Scholarship Program
The Tom Joyner Foundation® announced the ‘Full Ride’ scholarship program that will cover all the expenses of one student planning to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the fall of 2018.
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Women Contractors Association Show Appreciation for Elected Officials in the Houston Region
The Women Contractors Association (WCA) held their annual event in celebration and appreciation of elected officials in the Houston region. It was standing-room only as hundreds of elected officials poured into Grappino’s restaurant mingling and networking with the Contractors and guests. Jacquie Baly serving as Mistress of Ceremonies once again recognized and thanked the various Regional leaders for their service.
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Brazoria County Constable James Brawner and Former Councilman Greg Hill
Published on October 24, 2017
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'Everything was fine until you went off the air,' Letterman Told as He Receives Twain Prize
David Letterman, the longest-serving host in US late-night television, was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday.
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Nissan Halts Production of Cars Sold in Japan
Nissan has suspended production of cars for its home market over problems with its vehicle inspections.
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Sheila Jackson Lee Celebrated for Her Involvement in Extending D-SNAP Services in Houston
TMO clergy members and leaders are meeting Tuesday at Christ Church Cathedral to recognize Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for efforts to extend D-SNAP services in Harris County.
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The Family of Howard E. Butt, Jr. Donates $1 Million to Coastal Bend Disaster Recovery Group Fund
Funds donated in honor of the late Howard E. Butt, Jr. to support Hurricane Harvey Recovery Efforts
The family of the late Howard E. Butt, Jr., today announced a $1 million donation to support Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts in the hardest hit areas along the Gulf Coast.
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About 1 million Americans without running water. 3 million without power. This is life one month after Hurricane Maria.
After Hurricane Maria toppled the bridge that connects him to the rest of civilization and ripped the roof and walls off his house here in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, Ramón Sostre raised a weathered American flag above the wreckage.
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5 Shot at Maryland Office Park, Authorities Say
Five people have been shot at an office park in the Maryland community of Edgewood, and the shooter is believed to be on the loose, a deputy with the Harford County sheriff's office said Wednesday morning.
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Trump: Dem Congresswoman 'totally fabricated' His Remarks to Widow of Fallen Soldier
President Donald Trump denied Wednesday the account of a Democratic congresswoman that he told the widow of a US serviceman killed in an ambush in Niger that "he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt."
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Poll Shows Tied Alabama Senate Race
Democrat Doug Jones -- once thought to be a longshot in the Deep South -- has tied Republican nominee and former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's US Senate race, a new poll shows.
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DNC Resolution Calls for Bernie Sanders, Angus King to Join Democratic Party
Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders never actually joined the Democratic Party -- and some party officials are still bothered by it. Bob Mulholland, a Democratic National Committeeman from California, introduced a resolution that the party will consider at its Las Vegas meeting later this week calling on Sanders and Maine Independent Sen. Angus King -- both of whom caucus with the Democrats -- to actually join the party.
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Baker Institute Paper: Public, private stakeholders have role to play in fixing Houston’s flooding problem
The private sector can play a major role in fixing the serious problems that all levels of government and the development community, as well as their engineers and lawyers, have created in regard to flooding in Houston, according to a paper by an environmental expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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NAACP Condemns Trial Process for Kharon Davis
Sentenced to life by an Alabama all-white jury and decade of denial of Sixth Amendment rights highlights the need for reform of nation’s criminal justice system
The NAACP has issued the following statement regarding the life sentence of Kharon Davis issued today in Dothan, Alabama:
