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Joe Nocera’s pitched profile of then-little-known T. Boone Pickens got him unprecedented access to Pickens’s 1982 attempt to take over Cities Service.

In his new book, “DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution,” author Lance Scott Walker charts how DJ Screw developed his trademark sound.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office says a man charged with killing his wife has died after being found unresponsive in the county jail in Houston.

Joshua N. DeLoach, 29, has been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated kidnapping.

The Senate has approved a bill aimed at easing the baby formula shortage for families participating in a government assistance program known as WIC.

The ‘Fighting the Formula Shortage’ map lets parents indicate stores where formula is in stock

Super popular immersive art experience Meow Wolf is coming to Texas.

The St. Paul Square venue has hosted big-name DJs including Steve Aoki and Dillon Francis since opening last year.

On May 31, all Luby’s stockholders will automatically receive a distribution of one liquidating trust unit for each common share held.

Grapevine Mills Meow Wolf opens in 2023, while Houstonians have to wait until 2024 for Meow Wolf’s debut in H-Town’s Fifth Ward.

Joshua N. DeLoach, 29 is wanted for the May 8 incident.

Before you book your summer vacation, a Houston woman shares what happened to her when she booked a cabin for her family. She says she was surprised by more than $1200 in fees.

H-E-B is holding a career fair on Wednesday for those looking to apply for its warehouse and manufacturing teams.

Despite an admonition from federal authorities, Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s plan still steers aid disproportionately to whiter, inland counties at less risk of natural disasters.

Authorities said all five apparently knew each other. There were thousands of people at the market at the time, the sheriff said.

Authorities say two people have been killed and three more were taken to a hospital after a shooting at a Houston bustling flea market.

Texans kick off their regular season on Sept. 11 against the Colts

The crash caused his patrol car to split in half.

Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy died in a crash Wednesday after his vehicle clipped the back of a semitrailer parked on the shoulder of a Houston-area highway.

An attorney for the family of a 29-year-old Black man fatally shot last month by a Houston police officer says that an independent autopsy shows he was shot in the back of his neck.

“This is by far the most amazing catch of my entire life and it’s not even close,” the fisherman said.

Texas steered federal disaster grants toward Whiter, less populated areas over urban communities of color, HUD investigation finds.

He died on Saturday, May 7.

A 51-year-old Texas woman has been arrested on a murder charge after telling authorities she shot her husband after he told her he was in love with another woman.

Tres Hombres is made using a grain-to-glass approach with three distinct grains — one for each band member.

They were separated by a difference of 202 votes in unofficial returns, which means the election is eligible for a recount if Keys Bess petitions for one.

More than 20 years after the Enron disaster, the man who first blew the lid off the Houston-based energy company’s fraudulent deals is sharing why he came forward and what he hopes people learn from the scandal.

A 51-year-old Texas woman has been arrested on a murder charge after telling authorities she shot her husband after he told her he was in love with another woman.

Houston, Las Vegas and Phoenix were among the top 10 moving destinations for Americans in 2021, according to truck rental company Penske's annual report.

Rich Strike's trainer Ed Reed and his crew were jubilant at Churchill Downs after the horse won the 148th Kentucky Derby. Horse faced 80-1 odds.

Authorities say no injuries were reported after a small plane crashed into the backyards of several Houston homes shortly after it had taken off.

DSW is trying out a new store look and layout at a location opening this weekend in Houston, in an attempt to focus customers' attention on key brands.

Sherry Noppe had went missing on Tuesday when she took her dog for a walk.

Under Armour reported an unexpected loss and sales below estimates as the company grappled with global supply chain challenges and Covid lockdowns in China.

In Texas, real estate prices have steadily increased for 14 consecutive months amid high demand, according to a new report.

HOUSTON — A Houston police officer was shot and wounded on Wednesday while conducting a...

Officials say a Houston police officer has been shot and wounded while conducting a traffic stop as part of a drug investigation.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016.

The Toronto rapper has an everywhere-and-nowhere relationship with place, but no city has influenced him as much as H-Town.

A jury has convicted a man for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016.

HOUSTON (AP) — A man was convicted Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016.Jurors deliberated for about three hours before finding 33-y[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

World of Barbie is a new art installation that’s about to take off on a summer tour that includes a stop in Texas.

Remains discovered during a search in December have been identified as those of Taylor Pomaski, the missing girlfriend of former NFL player Kevin Ware, authorities said Saturday.

A jury on Friday convicted a man of capital murder for the 2018 death of a 7-year-old Black girl in a drive-by shooting that her family initially believed was racially motivated. Following the jury’s guilty verdict, Larry Woodruffe, 27, was given an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole. Woodruffe was one of two men charged with killing Jazmine Barnes on Dec. 30, 2018, as she and her family drove to a grocery store in Houston.

Residents are voicing fury over expansions set to displace thousands while Biden’s administration last year launched an investigation into a Houston project ‘There’s no train, there’s no bus, there’s no anything that supports mass transportation. It doesn’t exist.’ Photograph: Arturo Olmos/The Guardian Texas, with its wide-laned roads and supersized highways, seems like an unlikely place for a rebellion against the supremacy of American car culture. But last week a band of residents from across

The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a new documentary.

Amazon's overall business lost money in the first quarter, but the loss would have been even steeper were it not for the fast-growing cloud segment.

The Marine landed overnight according to reports.

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

A Texas appeals court on Monday delayed the execution of a woman amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter in a case that has garnered the support of lawmakers, celebrities and even some of the jurors who sentenced her to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a request by Melissa Lucio’s lawyers for a stay of execution so a lower court can review her claims that new evidence would exonerate her. It was not immediately known when the lower court begin reviewing her case. Lucio had been set for lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah in Harlingen, a city of about 75,000 in Texas’ southern tip.

The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departs the orbiting laboratory to head back to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

A former South Africa rugby player was killed in a multi-vehicle crash that stemmed from a chase in Harris County, according to the sheriff’s office.

"I’d have to always hide who I was to fit in, I thought, if there was any hope of a happy future."

Alejandro Torres Jr. Alejandro Torres Jr. 36, of San Antonio died April 20, 2022, at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston. A visitation will begin on Tuesday, April 26, at 1 p.m. and a rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. at Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary. A funeral mass will be held on Wednesday, April 27

The Houston Texans have a first-round draft pick for the first time since 2019, and thanks to the Deshaun Watson trade they have two selections in the opening round.

The charges stem from Hotze’s hiring of more than a dozen private investigators to look for voter fraud in Harris County ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Texas’ oldest death row inmate has been executed for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago.

Shohei Ohtani was winless with a 5.92 ERA in six starts against the Houston Astros entering Wednesday's start. Watching the superstar's performance from his perch in the dugout, Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon could feel Ohtani was determined to change his fortunes against the Astros on Wednesday night. “I think he just had enough of Houston giving him a hard time and he wanted to go out there tonight and do something about it, both on the mound and at the plate," Maddon said.

The charges stem from Hotze’s hiring of more than a dozen private investigators to look for voter fraud in Harris County ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Officials say three people were injured when a fire broke out in a residence hall at a Texas university.

RedCoach will start service April 28 between downtown San Antonio and stops in Austin, Houston, Waco and Dallas.

H-E-B will hold a career fair on Wednesday for those looking to apply for its warehouse jobs.

Results, schedules and scores for Corpus Christi and Coastal Bend colleges and high schools.

A man was detained after his wife’s body was found in a U-Haul box outside a Houston apartment complex on Sunday afternoon, according to media reports.

The J. W. Nixon High School Dark Horse Robotics team formed an alliance with the Cigarroa...

Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin all ranked among the top 10 cities for new eviction filings in early April, among the 31 cities tracked by Eviction Lab.

Bids to host the Democratic Party’s next presidential nominating event are due by May 27.

Amazon on Wednesday added a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to fees it charges U.S. third-party sellers who use its storage and shipping services.

There's a taste of everything in this city, from upscale Mexican cuisine to trucks specializing in globally inspired delights.

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The Houston and Dallas regions may soon be designated as “severe” violators of federal smog rules, which would prompt more aggressive regulations.

The UTRGV baseball team scored five runs during the fourth inning to ignite the offense and beat the Houston Cougars 9-1 in nonconference play Tuesday at Schroeder Park in Houston. Up 1-0 entering the inning, the Vaqueros (18-14) put two on with one out, setting up an RBI double by second baseman DeAndre’ Shelton. Blake finished 3-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs scored while finishing a double short of the cycle. Shelton also had a multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored. Junior J.C. Ariza and graduate student Max Balderrama Jr. each pitched a scoreless inning to close the game.

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The company is expanding across the country in 2022 and 2023.

The felony charges are misuse of official information and tampering with a government record. Hidalgo, who oversees Harris County, has the largest constituency of any elected Democratic executive in the state.

Gary Brown, who rushed for 4,300 yards while playing on three NFL teams in the 1990s before going on to coach running backs in the pro and college ranks, has died.

Alfredo Martinez, a Texas State Technical College student training in Building Construction Technology at TSTC’s Harlingen campus, may have gone to the SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary Leadership and Skills Conference in Houston in hopes of winning a gold medal in the Cabinetry competition.

Hidalgo, the Harris County judge, says a criminal probe into a contract her office awarded is a political hit. But as a potential future statewide candidate, does the episode expose a flaw in her approach to politics?

Traces of Texas’ Throwback Thursday: An Aerial View of the AstrodomeTraces of Texas reader Frank Pasket was in the Coast Guard during the 1960s and was nice enough to send in this amazing picture of himself flying a helicopter over the Astrodome in Houston back in 1965. The Astrodome was brand new at the time, having opened on April 9 of that year. I still remember the first time I entered its cavernous environs, which was to see a game between the Houston Oilers and the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1970. When I walked up the ramp and the field came into view, I was dumbstruck. There have been numerous proposals to renovate the dome but as of today, no improvements have been made.

The fast-casual restaurant franchise Big Chicken — owned by the big man himself, NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal — is entering the San Antonio market.

Officials say two people have been killed in a small plane crash near a Central Texas airport.

Mark Vande Hei is happy having spent almost a year in space. A NASA astronaut, Vande Hei returned from a 355-day stay on the International Space Station and a week later, he shared his experience.

A Houston resident has been arrested in Laredo for the smuggling attempt of approximately...

Houston police say officers shot and wounded a man when he charged at them with a knife after he killed a construction worker with the worker’s own stolen truck, crashed into the lobby of a high-rise and then stabbed someone else.

Economists say that prices depend largely on the price of fuel, and getting those goods from one place to the next.

Officials say a suspected drunk driver has been charged in the death of a Houston area deputy constable after being accused of slamming into the back of the officer’s vehicle, causing it to burst into flames.

The San Diego Padres have acquired left-hander Sean Manaea in a trade with the Oakland Athletics.

Authorities say a 17-year-old has been arrested on a capital murder warrant in the fatal shooting of an off-duty deputy sheriff on the northern outskirts of Houston.

Before launching Apollo 11 to land astronauts on the moon, NASA secretly sent a fourth grader there first. That is one of the stories in Richard Linklater's "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood."

The nationwide average price for a gallon of unleaded gas has reached record highs in 2022, according to GasBuddy.com.

An off-duty Harris County deputy was fatally shot as he tried to stop men from stealing his catalytic converter in a grocery story parking lot, according to the sheriff.

GM's U.S. sales were down again on tight inventories, allowing Toyota to eke out a sales victory.

The computer system used for law enforcement in the Houston area crashed on March 24, preventing defendants from getting an initial court hearing within the legal timeframe.

A new Shipley Do-Nuts is expected to set up shop by the end of the year in the city of Weslaco.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is finally home.

Officials say nearly 300 Houston-area defendants were ordered released after a computer glitch prevented them from getting an initial court hearing within the time period required by state law.

Dejounte Murray scored a career-high 33 points and the San Antonio Spurs held on for a 123-120 win over the Houston Rockets to inch closer to the final play-in spot in the Western Conference.

Police in San Antonio arrested an 18-year-old woman they say was a passenger during the hit-and-run death of a prominent Galveston doctor.

Villanova guard and second-leading scorer Justin Moore will undergo surgery this week for a torn Achilles tendon.

Jermaine Samuels had 16 points and 10 rebounds as Villanova advanced to its third Final Four in the last six NCAA Tournaments with a 50-44 victory over Houston in the South Region final.