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Texas Children’s Hospital Ranked Among Best in US

Our own Texas Children's Hospital is being recognized as one of the top children's hospitals in the country, according to a new list from U.S. News and World Report. TCH is number four, behind hospitals in Boston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati.

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J.D. Power Names Fort Wayne Assembly Highest Quality in the Americas

General Motors Fort Wayne Truck Assembly plant today earned the prestigious J.D. Power Gold Plant Quality Award and was recognized as delivering the highest-ranked automotive manufacturing quality in the Americas in 2017.

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Rockets Sign James Harden to Four-Year Contract Extension

Houston Rockets Owner Leslie Alexander announced today that the team has signed guard James Harden to a four-year contract extension, which will run through the 2022-23 season. The Rockets have made the playoffs in all five of Harden’s seasons with the team, while posting a winning percentage of .612.

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Chris Ayer Shares Video For "Stay Another Night"

Out Now On [PIAS]

Today singer Chris Ayer is pleased to share the video for his track "Stay Another Night", his first release with [PIAS] that is out now.

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Willowridge High School Students, Staff to Begin 2017-18 School Year at Marshall High School

Willowridge High School students and staff members will begin the 2017-18 school year at Marshall High School as cleanup efforts continue at the WHS campus. The school year begins on August 22, and the District is planning a back to school Celebration and Community Forum on Wednesday, August 16, so that the community can learn more about the District’s efforts to support students and staff members in both communities.

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Perez promises to be Trump's 'worst nightmare'

Newly elected Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez began his new rivalry with President Donald Trump this weekend, crowing that he will be a tougher political foe than Trump anticipates.

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Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminated, Judge Rules

Texas legislators intentionally discriminated against Hispanic and black voters in passing its 2011 voter identification law, a federal judge ruled. In a 10-page decision issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos wrote that a previous ruling compelled Texas to demonstrate the law was enacted without knowingly targeting minorities, and that the burden of proof "shifted to the State to demonstrate that the law would have been enacted without its discriminatory purpose.

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Are You RODEO READY?!

Sunday, March 12th, Houston Shopping Tours is kicking off tourism season with an exclusive shopping party for all of you fabulous rodeo goers! The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo brings thousands of visitors to the city from all over the world to witness the largest rodeo event in the U.S. This means one thing... You've got to look good!

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Innovative Company Releases New Line of Afro-Futuristic Hair Styling Products

Carbon-AR is a Black-owned product and media creator in Oakland, California that creates Afro-Futuristic Styling Combs. They are quickly expanding into becoming a producer of culturally relevant high quality products in the Black hair industry.

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American flags stolen from area businesses and burned

The Waynesville Kiwanis Club says someone burned several of their American flags that had been placed on local businesses.

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A Storm to Remember - Hurricane Harvey and the Texas Economy

In this special edition of Fiscal Notes, released today, the Comptroller's office examines the effect of Hurricane Harvey on the Texas economy through data modeling. Our analysis takes a wide-ranging view of the net consequences of the storm, using a dynamic input-output model to measure the storm's economic impacts.

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Dismissal of Desegregation Court Order Threatens Texas School District Racial Ties

A federal court has released Longview ISD from decades-long supervision of its policies for educating students of color. It has made progress to topple the barriers still holding black and Hispanic students back from the same academic success as white students. But whether it continues a commitment to student equity now depends solely on the collective will of a school board that could change with a single election cycle.

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Latino Voters Are Making the Democrats Sweat

Democrats see their fortunes rising with constituencies they’ll need to run up big victories in the midterm elections. They expect to do especially well with suburban women, even non-college-educated women, and are optimistic about millennials and a decent turnout by African-Americans. They’re concerned, however, about Latinos, especially men.

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The Biggest Hurdle For Beto O'Rourke In Texas Is Turning Out Latino Voters

The Texas Senate race wasn't supposed to be competitive this year. But thanks to an imaginative campaign, Beto O'Rourke has energized Democrats, drawing huge crowds and raising tens of millions of dollars in what was initially seen as a long-shot bid to defeat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Report: Pay Is Rising for Houston's African-American Residents

Houston's African-American residents have high household incomes when compared with similar U.S. metros and that pay is rising, according to an examination of Census data by Forbes.

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Simeon Booker, Pioneering Black Reporter on Race Issues, Dies at 99

Simeon S. Booker Jr., an award-winning journalist and author who provided pioneering coverage of racial injustice and the civil rights struggle for readers of Jet and Ebony magazines and was The Washington Post’s first black reporter, died on Sunday in Solomons, Md.

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NAACP Files Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Capital One Bank

Capital One Bank has been closing many of its brick-and-mortar locations around the state of Texas in what the bank claims to be a cost-cutting measure. The NAACP, however, has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the publicly traded company, alleging that its actions are discriminatory against its black and Latino customers, while also using black celebrities in its commercials to enhance its agenda.

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Former Employees Suing Shipley Do-Nuts Over Alleged Sexual Harassment, Racial Discrimination

Harris County court documents show at least three women, all former employees, claim sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination against the Houston-based pastry chain company’s, Shipley Do-Nuts, co-owner, Lawrence Shipley III. The women are accusing Shipley of inappropriately touching their rear ends while hugging them and staring at their body parts.

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Payless Gains Footing with Hispanic Audience by Launching Spanish Website

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. has made it easy for Spanish-speaking customers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to shop online in their preferred language. The iconic retailer recently debuted a new Spanish-language website, enabled by MotionPoint. Payless is the largest specialty family footwear retailer in the Western Hemisphere, with nearly 3,600 brick-and-mortar stores in more than 40 countries.

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Barbie Models Doll After NASA 'Hidden Figure' Katherine Johnson

A once-"hidden figure" from NASA's history is being celebrated by one of the most well-known toy lines in the world. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose real-life experience as an African American "human computer" was depicted in the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," is among the first three historical figures to be honored in Barbie's "Inspiring Women" doll series.