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  Another Omni Employee Was Trapped in Elevator During Flooding 2 Years Before Jill Renick Died, Amended Suit Says

  September 6 at 5:30 a.m.

  The civil lawsuit accusing Houston's Omni Hotel and Otis Elevators of negligence in the death of Jill Renick who during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was trapped in an elevator and ultimately drowned in the hotel basement, has been amended to include an earlier similar incident. On September 4, an amended...

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  Inventors Suing InventHelp Want to Know Why George Foreman Represents the Company

  September 4 at 4 a.m.

  Etta Calhoun of Spring, Texas is a lovely, gracious, soft-spoken woman who as a devout Christian believes in the word of God and its power. She has lived her life by Biblical principles; they give her comfort and hope. One day she came up with an idea: Why not share...

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  Test Cases for Addicks, Barker Flooding Are Moving Through the Courts

  August 24 at 4 a.m.

  One year after the controlled release of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, flooded homeowners and businesses located both upstream and downstream of the dams are seeking relief in court under the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment, which states that private property shall not be taken for public use without...

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  Heart Surgeon Bud Frazier Sues Houston Chronicle and ProPublica Over Story

  July 11 at 6 a.m.

  Renowned heart transplant surgeon Dr. O.H. “Bud” Frazier has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Houston Chronicle, ProPublica and the two reporters from those publications who reported and wrote a May 24, 2018 story entitled “A Pioneering Heart Surgeon’s Secret History of Research Violations, Conflicts of Interest and Poor Outcomes.”...

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  Did Texas Prison Guards Drive Marinda Griggs to Kill Herself?

  June 14 at 4 a.m.

  On a late September day in 2015, Inmate No. 1455104 was supposed to be standing quietly in line for a midday prison count in the women’s unit at a Gatesville prison. But Marinda Griggs, a longtime epileptic, could feel a seizure coming on and asked to go to the medical...

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  Toned Down But Not Gone, White Oak Music Hall Outdoor Stages Will Live On

  April 25 at 6 a.m.

  When White Oak Music Hall opened in August 2016 to the delight of local music fans, all sorts of optimistic statements were made by its business partners that their near Northside residential neighbors would come to love their big, bold, outdoor venue and the jobs it offered the locals. Ah,...