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Repeat Offender Who Jumped Bail Before Trial in 2021 Sentenced to 50 Years for Murder

A Houston man who jumped bail before his trial in 2021 and was rearrested pleaded guilty to murder this week and was sentenced to 50 years in prison, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.

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Police release photo of Kia that was dragged 8 miles by semi-truck, woman hospitalized

A 28-year-old woman was hospitalized early Wednesday after a semitrailer dragged her vehicle nearly eight miles after a crash.

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Houston Developer, Roberto Contreras, Heads Home for First Local Hotel Project

Meet Roberto Contreras, a visionary Developer and CEO of Texas-based DC Partners, making waves in his hometown with the unveiling of Thompson Houston, the city’s newest and most stylish hotel in February 2024.

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Doctors Thought She Was Psychotic, But Her Body Was Attacking Her Brain

Emily Gavigan was convinced that a nearby truck was following her. Someone was after her. She was a sophomore at the University of Scranton in January 2009 when the "bizarre" behavior began, said her father, Bill.

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Provocative New Live Event Series Date Night Love Premiers July 27 with Hosts Michelle Collins, Bethany Watson and Paul Brunson

From Big Fish Entertainment, The Producers of A&E's Hit Series Live PD, Series to Follow Couples Nationwide, Dating In Real-Time

An evening of can’t-look-away dating action unfolds in real-time on Lifetime’s groundbreaking new series, Date Night Live, premiering Thursday, July 27 at 10pm ET/PT. From Big Fish Entertainment, producers of A&E hit docuseries Live PD, the eight-episode series follows couples from New York City, Atlanta, Dallas and San Diego, as they embark on dates – LIVE!

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Historic Piney Woods School to Host Commencement Activities May 27

Perennial Strategy Group CEO will keynote the graduation ceremony on Saturday

The Piney Woods School (PWS), once an abandoned sheep shed turned schoolhouse, and now a sprawling 2,000-acre campus, will host commencement activities on May 27. Festivities will take place in the school's Rock Garden Amphitheater beginning with a baccalaureate service at 8:30 a.m., followed by the commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Leading public affairs expert and civil rights advocate, Lamell McMorris, will deliver the keynote address.

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Rice Athletics to Host 5th Annual Student Leadership Conference Friday

Rice University's Athletics Department and Rice faculty, students and staff will host 600 students from IDEA Public Schools’ charter schools May 12 for the fifth annual Student Leadership Conference from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. The schools are based in the Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The conference will culminate with students attending the Rice-Middle Tennessee State University baseball game in the evening.

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“I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons” by Kevin Hart

You can pretend all you want. Hide your head in the sand and say it ain’t so. Cover your ears and yell “LaLaLaLaLa” until everyone thinks you’re five years old. You can deny, deny, deny, but listen up: some things are factual, so read “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons” by Kevin Hart, and you may learn something.

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Barron Trump to attend St. Andrew's Episcopal School

Barron Trump is moving to Washington

He will attend St. Andrew's Episcopal School

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AboutThatCar.com: 2017 Mazda6 Grand Touring

As soon as they dropped off the 2017 Mazda6, we were headed down Hwy 14 to connect with I-94 West and on to Chicago. Once we were clear of the expressway like traffic, we set the car’s adaptive cruise control on 78 mph and settled in for what turned out to be an uneventful drive.

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Tickets Now On Sale

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chance The Rapper, The Killers, Gorillaz, Martin Garrix, and The xx are set to headline this year’s massive Austin City Limits Music Festival lineup. ICE CUBE, Ryan Adams, Solange, The Head and the Heart, Run The Jewels, FOSTER THE PEOPLE, Spoon, Vance Joy, ZHU and more will deliver an incredibly diverse musical landscape throughout ACL Fest’s epic two consecutive weekends. The world-class festival will deliver more than 140 bands across eight stages at Zilker Park, October 6-8 and October 13-15.

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Lights, Camera, Action: Super Bowl 51

Well, it is finally here. The pinnacle of the NFL season. Crème de la Crème for every player that dons the uniform of any of the 32 teams in the National Football League. But for one team it seems like business as usual and the other team comes in with a ‘We Belong Here,” mentality. The AFC Champions New England Patriots will play the NFC Champions Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl 51 in Houston, Texas (6:30 PM ET on Fox).

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Republicans to Leave Town Without Health Care Deal

No deal on legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare is expected before lawmakers head home for a two-week break, putting a cap for now on the on-again, off-again talks that have divided the Republican party.

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Labor Department Goes After Big Tech For Discrimination

In the final months of the Obama administration, the Department of Labor filed lawsuits against Google, Oracle and Palantir for hiring discrimination and pay disparities.

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Texans Dance Their Way to Their First Victory of the Year After Defeating the Jags

The attendance on Sunday wasn’t the usual 70,000-plus screaming fans that normally fill the stands at the Texans home games at NRG Stadium, but none of the 12,413 fans that were in attendance didn’t leave until the team cleared the field cheering them all the way to the tunnel. The hometown team finally gave the fans something to cheer about after they won their first game of the 2020 NFL season defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars by a score of 30-14.

School sports: How student athletes can stay healthy amid COVID-19

One of the main activities that students, parents and teachers look forward to when the school year begins is attending seasonal sports games. As the fall semester takes off with schools doing their best to limit the spread of COVID-19, a sports medicine expert at the Baylor College of Medicine said the safest way to play sports is to practice social distancing and proper hygiene whenever possible.

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David Byrne apologizes for donning blackface in 1984 video

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has apologized for wearing black and brownface in an unearthed promotional video, calling it a "major mistake in judgement."

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Fighting Frustrations

Astros involved in a bench clearing brawl as they drop 5th straight game

It has been a frustrating 2020 for the Houston Astros. Outside of being branded as the “Asterisks” and becoming the bad guys of baseball due to the 2017 cheating scandal, they have had their roster decimated by injuries of some of their top players in the first 15 games of the season. To make matters worse they have lost five games in a row and are currently 5 ½ games back of the Oakland A’s for the lead in the A.L. West.

In the Republican Party, the inmates are running the asylum

The lead sentence in an article in The New York Times on Tuesday was a bizarre, if fitting, encapsulation of the state of American politics today: "Conspiracy theorists won a major victory on Tuesday...."

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Gowdy asks FEMA administrator for travel information

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy asked FEMA administrator Brock Long on Monday for information and documents regarding Long's use of government property during personal trips since he has been head of the agency that manages disaster relief.