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  Former HPD Cops Face New Charges in Connection with Fatal 2019 Drug Raid

  July 2 at 6:15 a.m.

  On Wednesday evening, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced 15 new felony charges against six former Houston Police Department officers connected to the January 2019 drug raid gone awry that led to the deaths of married couple Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. The new charges came about from the...

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  Supreme Court Strikes Down Restrictive Louisiana Abortion Law

  June 29 at 3:12 p.m.

  In the latest in a string of major decisions this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday morning to strike down a Louisiana law that would have drastically reduced the number of abortion providers in that state. The court voted 5-4 to overrule the state law, with conservative Chief Justice...

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  Turner Gives Houston COVID-19 Update and Unveils Police Reform Task Force

  June 24 at 6:52 p.m.

  In a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner straddled the two crises gripping the nation: the troubling spread of COVID-19 and the mounting pressure to reform our country’s police departments in the aftermath of the tragic deaths of black Americans like George Floyd at the hands of law...

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  Supreme Court Rules Trump Can’t End DACA For Now

  June 18 at 1:07 p.m.

  In a 5-4 decision Thursday morning, conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberal justices to reject President Trump’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA. Thursday’s ruling is the second bombshell this week to come from the nation’s highest court,...

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  Supreme Court Rules That LGBT Americans Are Protected From Discrimination

  June 16 at 5 a.m.

  On Monday morning, the scales of justice tipped one step closer toward equality for LGBT Americans when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the same federal Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination based on sex also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. In a 6-3 vote, conservative Justice Neil M. Gorsuch,...

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  A Survivor's Story: Lynyrd Skynyrd's Plane Crash Gets the Movie Treatment

  June 9 at 4 a.m.

  Sometimes, the sound of impending doom is quiet. And sometimes it is loud. Less often, it is both. That’s how Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle recalls what he and 25 other band members, crew, associates, and pilots heard inside their Convair CV-240 plane over the swamps near Gillsburg, Mississippi on...