READY, SET, HUT: Livingston earns first-ever female flag football scholarship
The definition of opportunity is a set of circumstances that makes it possible for you to achieve something. There is a new opportunity for female athletes to receive scholarships to play flag football in college, and two students from Legacy the School of Sport Sciences are taking full advantage.
New Texas plan for federal Hurricane Harvey aid yields same old result: Funds diverted away from Gulf Coast
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.
chron.comNew Texas plan for federal Hurricane Harvey aid yields same old result: Funds diverted away from Gulf Coast
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.
WATCH LIVE: Congressman Al Green to address Buffalo supermarket shooting, present possible solutions to combat hate crime
U.S. Congressman Al Green plans to hold a news conference on Sunday to discuss the outcome of the Buffalo mass shooting that took place at a supermarket Saturday afternoon.
Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston and Meals on Wheels provides emergency hurricane meals through Operation Impact Project
Houstonians are always lending a helping hand. On Saturday, volunteers, sponsors, CITGO, and Energy Transfer teamed up with Interfaith Ministries and Meals on Wheels to help those who are homebound.
2 suspects charged after man beaten to death in tent under Eastex Freeway, Houston police say
Michael Enlund was lying inside a tent at a homeless encampment beneath the Eastex Freeway May 1 when two men who did not live at the camp assaulted him, according to the Houston Police, who arrested two suspects Monday and Wednesday.
Docs: Man fatally shoots mother of his newborn with semi-automatic pistol after fight over Mother’s Day dinner, victim suffered repeated abuse
“This death is another tragic reminder of how volatile domestic violence can be,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “Unfortunately, sometimes the person closest to us poses the greatest risk to our well-being. The facts of this matter are terribly troubling and heartbreaking.”
Electricity prices spiking, and new plans for the T-MEC Corridor (May 12, 2022) – Houston Public Media
On Thursday's show: What energy consumers should know after recent price spikes, a hiccup in Texas-Mexico relations, a fiction novel set in the Sikh Empire, and Latino Jews in Houston.
houstonpublicmedia.orgIke Dike legislation moves forward, and Huma Abedin steps out of the shadows (May 6, 2022) – Houston Public Media
On Friday's show: Legislation to protect Texas from storm surge moves forward in the U.S. Senate, Huma Abedin discusses her new memoir ahead of an event in Houston, and we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week.
houstonpublicmedia.orgMan convicted in fatal stabbing of 11-year-old Houston boy
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]
sanmarcosrecord.comMan convicted in Texas girl's death as family went to store
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.
news.yahoo.com‘It’s just more and more lanes’: the Texan revolt against giant new highways
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
news.yahoo.comLucio execution on hold, and a Holocaust survivor’s story (April 26, 2022) – Houston Public Media
On Tuesday's show: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution to Melissa Lucio, who was set to be executed later this week. Also, we get an update on several recent technology stories. And Ruth Steinfeld shares her story of surviving a concentration camp and starting a new life in Houston.
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