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  Woman Convicted of Animal Cruelty. Pets Starved to Death After She Left Them Behind.

  May 9 at 12:26 p.m.

  When Jamica Roshawn Chambliss moved out of her Fondren Road apartment in 2016, she apparently wanted to travel light. Or she was very forgetful. Or maybe she meant to return but couldn't because she was being held captive somewhere? In any case, the 42-year-old woman left behind two dogs, a...

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  Jury Takes 4 Minutes to Convict a Woman in Dog Cruelty Case

  April 30 at 12:59 p.m.

  A Houston judge has sentenced a 45-year-old woman to six months in jail after a jury took just four minutes to find her guilty of cruelty and the neglect of the two adult dogs who were in her care. A veterinarian who testified said neither had enough water, food or...

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  Harris County DA's Office Plays Hard Ball With ITC, Files Criminal Charges

  April 30 at 11:03 a.m.

  Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC), whose Deer Park refinery tanks caught fire last month in an accident that shut down local schools and the Houston Ship Channel for days, has been hit with five environmental criminal charges by the Harris County District Attorney's Office. DA Kim Ogg announced the measure, saying...

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  Harris County Commissioners Vote to Sue ITC Over Costs From Its Plant Accident [UPDATED]

  March 27 at 4:30 a.m.

  In a unanimous vote Tuesday, played out before a packed room of onlookers, Harris County Commissioners Court voted to sue ITC for the fire and toxic chemical spill at its plant that shut down schools and the Houston Ship Channel, had nearby residents sheltering in place and will perhaps have...

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  Climate Change Symposium: Will Houston Become Beachfront Property?

  February 18 at 4 a.m.

  Why should Houstonians care if a glacier in Iceland, almost 4,000 miles away, has officially died out? "There's a direct connection. In a weird way we are very much connected to this," says Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice University, who says NASA scientists predict that the melting of continental...

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  Creditor Steve Harter Levels Some Big Allegations About Omar Afra's Dealings With Free Press Houston and Day For Night

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 5:58 p.m.

  Since the allegations of sexual misconduct by Omar Afra involving two women first surfaced last August (when as a result the creditors of Day For Night removed Afra from the organization he founded), there have been many questions about what would happen next, not just for the alleged victims and...