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After several days of freezing and freezing-ish weather Houston, Texas is finally back to a comfortable 60-70 degree range. Jack frost apparently got lost and thought he was in the wrong city!
A Christmas tree that had been up for a few days sparked a fire inside a Montgomery County home, authorities said. Firefighters from New Caney, Splendora and Porter battled the blaze that erupted about 1:15 p.m. Monday inside the mobile home in the 22100...
Tags: Montgomery County, christmas tree, Houston, Environment, Montgomery County Texas, Greater Houston, New Caney Texas, Disaster Accident
Three weeks ago, James McLaughlin asked his landlord to gouge a deep hole in the earth behind his San Jacinto County trailer home so that he could bury his recently deceased St...What the ex-convict and sometime truck driver put in that hole, though,...
Tags: Dewars, James McLaughlin, McLaughlins, Rebecca McLaughlin, Bill Burnett, murder charges, William Klop, San Jacinto County, Houston, San Jacinto County Texas, McLaughlin, Law Crime, Dewar's
Drinking beer and coffee may cut the risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer, according to two studies. In the first study, scientists recorded the coffee consumption of almost 50,000 men taking part in a major US health study. Over a period of...
Tags: prostate cancer, Houston, Urology, Cancer, Health Medical Pharma, Nutrition, Alcohol and cancer, Prostate, Beer, Coffee, Estrogen, Testosterone, Flavonoid, Management of prostate cancer
Houston Fire Department employees have experienced harassment and discrimination but nothing as extreme as the racist and sexist graffiti scrawled on the walls inside a female firehouse dorm last summer, an independent review released Tuesday revealed.
Tags: HFD, Houston Fire Department, Houston Police Department, reviewers team, Houston, Graffiti, Harassment, Social Issues, Women in firefighting, Discrimination, Firefighter, Bullying
Houston Fire Department firefighters rescued a crew of window washers who were stranded on scaffolding in the Greenway Plaza area this afternoon in high winds. The men became stranded about 1 p.m. several stories up outside 11 Greenway Plaza, fire officials...
Tags: Houston, Environment, Greenway Plaza, Firefighter, Disaster Accident
Houston police are asking for the public's help in finding the gunman in a fatal shooting in south Houston last month. Eber Merion was gunned down as he walked on the street in the 13500 block of Regg about 9:30 p.m...The shooter was seen speeding away...
Tags: Houston, Tipster, Law enforcement, Crimestoppers, Law Crime
The body of man reported missing late last month was found buried near Lake Livingston last week. Ronald James Dewars, 52, was reported missing by his girlfriend Nov. 27, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. His body was found buried in...
Tags: Houston, San Jacinto County Texas, Greater Houston, Coldspring, Law Crime
U.S. postal inspectors recently intercepted a package of child pornography DVDs that prompted a sting operation that led to the arrest of a Houston man at an apartment where his mother ran a day care. The operation involved online chats in which the suspect,...
Tags: child pornography, postal inspectors, Houston, Social Issues, Law Crime, Sex laws, Pornography
Houston city workers mistakenly thought a fake fire hydrant was the real thing, painted it blue and gave it a serial number. But the homeowner realized the mistake and contacted the city. Debbie Vogelsang said that she was concerned that painting the...
Tags: fire hydrant, serial number, Houston