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  Elmer Manzano Charged With Capital Murder In Killing of HPD Sgt. Harold Preston

  October 21 at 6:36 p.m.

  On Wednesday afternoon, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo gave an update on the fatal shooting of Houston Police Department Sgt. Harold Preston, a 41-year department veteran just days away from retirement, who was killed while responding to a domestic violence call on Tuesday. “He was about two weeks away from...

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  U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down Texas Law Banning Common Abortion Method

  October 14 at 11:28 a.m.

  On Tuesday night, Texan abortion rights advocates celebrated a new ruling from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that finally struck down State Bill 8, the Texas Legislature’s attempt to ban the most common form of abortion used after 15 weeks of pregnancy. “My immediate reaction to yesterday’s Fifth...

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  Hearing Set For Harding Street Raid Investigation Despite City Hall Pushback

  October 6 at 4 a.m.

  The family of Rhogena Nicholas is one step closer to uncovering the truth about what happened during the botched drug raid last year during which Houston Police Department officers shot and killed both Nicholas and her husband in their home. On Monday, Harris County Probate Court Judge Jerry Simoneaux set...

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  Months After George Floyd, Black Lives Matter Houston Keeps Fighting For A Better Bayou City

  October 5 at 4:30 a.m.

  By any measure, 2020 has been one of the worst years of all time. It’d still rank high on the list of most awful years if it were only for the still raging coronavirus pandemic that’s killed over a million people globally and the plethora of natural disasters that have...

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  Harris County Clerk Holds Off On Mail-In Ballot Application Plan, For Now

  September 1 at 3:22 p.m.

  One day after a lawsuit from the state’s top lawyer landed on his desk, Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins announced Tuesday that he is backing down from his previous promise to send applications for mail-in ballots to all 2.4 million registered voters in the county. On Monday, Texas Attorney General...

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  Texas Attorney General Sues Harris County Clerk Over Mail-In Ballot Applications

  September 1 at 5 a.m.

  Last week, Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins announced a plan to send mail-in ballot applications to the nearly 2.4 million registered voters in Harris County. On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in district court against Hollins with the hope of preventing those unsolicited applications from ever...