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Walk into any seventh-grade classroom in The Woodlands and you'll find the usual assortment of spiral notebooks, half-finished homework, and doodles in the margins. What you won't expect — what stops people in their tracks — are the fully realized, intricately detailed manga panels that fill Harper Madison's pages from…
Investigators said the man was shot by two suspects before he was later found lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead by authorities.
The Harris County Fire Marshal's Office confirmed it received several reports of gas odors on Thursday, but could not find a source. Officials with Precinct 4 said the reports ranged from Pasadena to Tomball.
A young man was shot and killed outside a north Harris County apartment complex as detectives review surveillance video and interview witnesses.
A man was shot multiple times and killed at an apartment complex in north Harris County, officials said.
A Crime Stoppers advocate says 37 capital murder suspects are on bond in Harris County, with some bonds as low as $50,000.
A mother is in the Harris County Jail, and her girlfriend is wanted after being accused of abusing a two-year-old and a three-year-old, and then trying to conceal it from law enforcement, records show.
The lawsuit filed last year by Rhea Young alleged she was fired in retaliation for refusing to segregate and limit access to books containing LGBTQ+ themes or ideas.
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The updated maps were released in February 2026, but experts said they would likely not be officially adopted for a few years.
Police said the discovery is not all that uncommon. In April 2025, officials in nearby Jamaica Beach said packages containing drugs washed up on the west end of the island.
Last year the Trump administration launched a policy of keeping all immigrants arrested by ICE in detention without the right to request bond, reversing decades of established law.
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Today: We celebrate Ernie Manouse’s 30th anniversary at Houston Public Media, talk with Congressman Al Green about the upcoming runoff election for TX-18, and our hosts share their latest Current Obsessions.
A draft of HISD’s budget proposal for next year reveals the district plans to increase salaries, but mostly to offset the rise in health insurance costs.
The Traveler's Table co-owner, her two children and her husband were found dead in their River Oaks home earlier this month in what authorities have described as a murder-suicide.
Democrats Annise Parker and Letitia Plummer, along with Republicans Orlando Sanchez and Warren Howell, are vying for the position in next Tuesday's primary runoff elections. Early voting is this week.
Jacolby Poindexter, 29, allegedly said he wanted to “kill all the Muslims and Jews” during an April visit to the first Ismaili Center to open in the United States. Ismailis are a branch of Shia Muslims.
Dexter McCoy and Rachelle Carter are competing in the May 26 primary runoff, with the winner facing interim County Judge Daniel Wong in November's general election.
The case, which prosecutors say is the first of its kind since Texas outlawed abortions, involves a man whom law enforcement accuses of slipping an abortion-inducing medication into a pregnant woman’s water.
The proposed development in Galveston would sit just outside of Jamaica Beach and span 170 acres with hundreds of housing units, a lagoon pool and a lazy river. Nearby residents have expressed concerns about its potential impacts on wetlands, wildlife and traffic.
State regulators say Camp Mystic's chief health officer abandoned campers and staff as deadly floodwaters rose.
The fossil fuel industry pumps millions into preparing high schoolers for jobs as lease operators, technicians and more. The president's call to "drill, baby, drill" has reinvigorated that work.
On Wednesday's show: President Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate primary runoff. We discuss that story and the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And we reflect on 150 years of Prairie View A&M University, the state’s oldest public HBCU.
The Texas A&M urban flood study, analyzing more than 40,000 weather events in major Texas cities over two decades, found that cities can actually change the weather, depending on the type of weather event.
The festival, which organizers claim to be the biggest of its kind in Texas, takes place from Friday, May 22, until Sunday, May 24.
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The clash embodies the tension for Democrats who rely on large fundraising hauls to remain competitive, even as they denounce the outsized political influence of corporate cash.
On Friday's show: NOAA is predicting a below-average number of storms during the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. We dive into the agency's annual forecast. And we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week.
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton visited the region for the first time since President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton on Tuesday.
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The forecast released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aligns with the prediction released earlier this year by researchers at Colorado State University. Hurricane season spans from June through November.
All of the Congo players and the team’s French coach are based outside of the central African country with most of them playing in France.
On Thursday's show: HISD Superintendent Mike Miles joins us to discuss the state of the district, changes in special education, and to address listener questions.
Roughly 3.7 million Texans are planning to travel for Memorial Day weekend, a similar number compared to last year, according to AAA.
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French, the former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, is running a close race against the incumbent Wright in the Republican primary runoff, focusing heavily on culture war issues.
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