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July 9th, 2020
After weeks of political posturing between state Republicans and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, the mayor on Wednesday said he would cancel the Texas Republican Party’s in-person convention, an event that was scheduled to...
July 2nd, 2020
Leslie Neal-Boylan, the dean of the nursing school at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, was allegedly fired after she received backlash from a student about an email to the campus community saying "EVERYONE'S LIFE...
June 30th, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a company can get a federal trademark by tacking on the dot-com domain name to a common word if enough enough people think of the result as a distinctive brand name, in a decision...
June 24th, 2020
With cases of the coronavirus surging to record levels in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott recommended Tuesday that Texans stay home as much as possible and for the first time moved to allow the tightening of two kinds of...
June 16th, 2020
The virtual celebration will feature performances from the Houston Symphony and other entertainers as well as a 15-minute firework finale.
June 10th, 2020
The centerpiece was Commissioner Rodney Ellis’s proposal for a civilian oversight board to investigate allegations of use of force by police
June 8th, 2020
She would have reopened on June 1, but the looting changed all that. Now she’s making a list for her insurance adjuster and working with a contractor who’s putting in new shelving free of charge.
May 27th, 2020
Not since the retirement of Nasa’s space shuttle fleet in 2011 has the US possessed the capability to send its own astronauts into orbit, and the success of this week’s mission, formally known as SpaceX Demo-2, is likely to...
May 18th, 2020
Gov. Greg Abbott lifted restrictions on the operation of gyms in Texas amid the coronavirus pandemic, effective Monday.
May 7th, 2020
I am modifying my executive orders to ensure confinement is not a punishment for violating an order. This order is retroactive to April 2nd, supersedes local orders and if correctly applied should free Shelley Luther.
July 6th, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that remove or fine Electoral College delegates who refuse to cast their votes for the presidential candidate they were pledged to support. The vote was unanimous.
July 1st, 2020
Hoping to block Gov. Greg Abbott’s Friday decision ordering Texas bars to close due to a rise in coronavirus cases, more than 30 bar owners filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Abbott’s emergency order.
June 29th, 2020
Delayed primary runoffs mark the state’s first test of voting during the pandemic and a high-stakes dry run for November. “We’re saying our prayers,” one elections administrator says.
June 22nd, 2020
COVID-19, the economic crash, and mass protests in the streets have all made it more difficult to get a good night’s sleep, according to a Houston sleep expert.
June 15th, 2020
A recent surge in COVID-19 cases has raised the county’s “threat level” and made it more likely that a new stay-at-home order would be issued, though it remained unclear whether the county had such authority.
June 9th, 2020
Harris County leaders will debate ways to rein in the use of force by law enforcement in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The proposals are expected to divide Commissioners Court along partisan lines.
June 1st, 2020
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a lack of immunity to the new coronavirus does not qualify a voter to apply for a mail-in ballot.
May 22nd, 2020
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo on Thursday announced the extension of the county’s stay-at-home order, even as Gov. Greg Abbott lifted such restrictions in the state and superseded most local directives.
May 11th, 2020
Within the first month of its launch, the state’s new mental health support line received nearly 2,000 calls from Texans in 100 counties who were experiencing fears of getting sick, feelings of isolation from social...
May 4th, 2020
Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries pleaded guilty to charges that it shipped products contaminated with listeria in 2015, and the company’s former CEO was charged with seven felony counts for allegedly covering up the incident...
