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• Police charge man with fatally shooting his wife

  25-01-2018 23:59 via chron.com
  Kalandre Kytrell Adams, 28, admitted to investigators his involvement in the slaying of his wife, Keishawra Shepherd-Adams, 27. Police found the Shepherd-Adams dead at the scene Nov. 3 at the 11400 block of Fawnway Drive.
  
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• Houston area bar owner convicted of conspiring to avoid paying taxes

  25-01-2018 23:12 via chron.com
  The convicted man conspired with others to withhold from the IRS the bars' vending machine-generated cash income. He failed to report  more than f $557,000from 2010 through 2012, reflecting a IRS loss of $147,375, according to the press release.
  
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• Study: Big rigs really are screwing up Houston's traffic - it's not just your imagination

  25-01-2018 22:09 via chron.com
  If you've ever blamed Houston's terrible traffic woes and bottlenecks on 18-wheelers, you might be onto something.
  
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• Students to showcase model Mars rovers as part of NASA-developed curriculum

  25-01-2018 22:00 via chron.com
  Elementary and middle school students will display their model Mars rovers on Saturday at the University of Houston as part of the 2018 Mars Rover Celebration.
  
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• Hilderbran voted out at Facilities Commission

  25-01-2018 21:09 via chron.com
  Harvey Hilderbran, the executive director and former lawmaker leading the Texas Facilities Commission, lost his job Thursday morning after the board that oversees the agency voted 5-2 to fire him.
  
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• Baylor LGBT group to students: Come join us

  25-01-2018 19:58 via chron.com
  A group for Baylor University lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students hit a milestone this week. For the first time, Sexual Identity Forum members covered some sidewalks at the private Baptist university with rainbow chalk, encouraging students to come to club meetings.
  
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• Union Pacific starts work on $550 million rail yard in Texas

  25-01-2018 19:16 via chron.com
  Hearne yard will allow trains to flow through Houston and be sorted outside College Station
  
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• Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards stepping down, reports say

  25-01-2018 18:22 via chron.com
  Cecile Richards, the long-serving president of Planned Parenthood and a Texas native, plans to step down from her role after more than a decade at the organization, according to several media reports.
  
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• State waivers won't stop major changes to 15 Houston schools, superintendent says

  25-01-2018 18:03 via chron.com
  In a meeting with the Houston Chronicle's editorial board and reporters, Carranza described the proposed changes, which involve handing over control of individual schools to outside organizations or closing-and-reopening campuses with entirely new staff and programming, as "good recommendations" for improving student performance.
  
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• Chasing Perfection, exhibit about pioneering Houston architect John Chase, debuts

  25-01-2018 17:45 via chron.com
  Chasing Perfection, a two-part exhibit about the work, life and legacy of pioneering Houston architect John Saunders Chase, opened this week at two Houston Public Library locations. Chase, whose local design portfolio includes the George R. Brown Convention Center, various buildings on the Texas Southern University campus and several local churches, broke barriers on many fronts to become one of the most influential black architects of the 20th century.
  
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• Fraudster almost got $900K from Harris County

  25-01-2018 17:25 via chron.com
  Federal and local law enforcement are investigating the attempted theft of nearly $900,000 from Harris County by someone posing as a contractor doing repairs after Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Reports: Fort Worth man hid cameras, recorded women and kids to catch cheating wife, he told police

  25-01-2018 17:23 via chron.com
  A Fort Worth man was arrested after his wife discovered three hidden cameras in her daughter's room and bathroom, according to multiple reports.
  
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• Abbott places TV ad for Dokupil

  25-01-2018 17:20 via chron.com
  Gov. Greg Abbott further injected himself into a testy Houston state House race Thursday by placing a TV ad in support for the challenger who hopes will oust Republican Rep. Sarah Davis.
  
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• Attorney for El Chapo questions request for jury protection

  25-01-2018 16:58 via chron.com
  The attorney representing infamous drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is questioning whether the jury in his upcoming trial should be afforded special protections, according to the New York Post.
  
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• Circus elephants block major U.S. freeway, PETA claims animals have been abused

  25-01-2018 16:54 via chron.com
  PETA has used photos of circus elephants on the side of an Oklahoma highway to chastise Carson & Barnes Circus regarding animal cruelty.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke plans big Houston area push this weekend

  25-01-2018 16:48 via chron.com
  Armed with a new poll showing he's closing in on U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Democrat Beto O'Rourke is planning a two-day campaign binge in Houston area this weekend to build momentum for his U.S. Senate campaign. On Saturday O'Rourke joins U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer at a private fundraiser in Houston at 10 a.m., then goes to a climate forum on Saturday at 1 p.m. and a Missouri City town hall at 3 p.m. On Sunday, O'Rourke will start a day-long live streaming beginning with a morning run in Memorial Park. T
  
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• Measles outbreak advisory issued near Dallas

  25-01-2018 16:18 via chron.com
  On Tuesday, the Texas Department of State Health Services issued a measles outbreak health advisory after six cases of measles were confirmed in Ellis County south of Dallas.
  
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• Man wounded by deputy in Galleria area faces assault charge

  25-01-2018 15:49 via chron.com
  A Cinco Ranch man who was wounded by an off-duty Waller County deputy faces charges of aggravated assault of a police officer.
  
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• Watch: This is what the 'sea monster' ship looks like after being sunken for a year in the Gulf

  25-01-2018 15:47 via chron.com
  The behemoth is part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Artificial Reef Program.
  
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• Trump offers well wishes to Texas girl suffering from rare disease

  25-01-2018 14:00 via chron.com
  "I'm here to tell you that millions of people from every corner of the world will be praying for you on January 26th," said  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
  
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• Morgan's Point complying with Harris County marijuana diversion program

  25-01-2018 14:00 via chron.com
  The chief of police of Morgan's Point said Wednesday that the small city of 350 people near Galveston Bay is participating with a county-wide misdemeanor marijuana diversion program, although they have not referred anyone."We're a small department," said Chief Sherri Ditrich after a Houston Chronicle analysis showed several jurisdictions, including cities along the bay and educational institutions, had not referred anyone to District Attorney Kim Ogg's signature program since it began in March.
  
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• Harris County officials to get update on closed criminal courthouse

  25-01-2018 14:00 via chron.com
  Harris County officials on Thursday will get an update on the 20-story criminal justice center in downtown Houston that has been closed since flooding from Hurricane Harvey in August.A consultant from PGAL, the architectural firm tasked with estimating the scope of work for the shuttered skyscraper, is on the agenda for the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, a county sub-committee that brings more than a dozen office holders and agency heads together every quarter to work on problems facing
  
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• Kidnapping victim shot in FBI 'operation' in Trinity Gardens area, sources say

  25-01-2018 13:11 via chron.com
  An FBI agent fatally shot a Montgomery County kidnapping victim during a predawn operation in northeast Houston, according to law enforcement sources.
  
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• 1 dead in FBI 'operation' in Trinity Gardens area

  25-01-2018 13:11 via chron.com
  A man was fatally shot during an FBI operation in northeast Houston Thursday morning, the agency confirmed. It is not clear if he was armed.
  
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• Immunotherapy pioneer Jim Allison still reeling in prizes, money

  25-01-2018 13:05 via chron.com
  More than five years have passed since Jim Allison's breakthrough work unleashing the immune system to attack cancer jump-started a new paradigm of treatment, but the prizes keep coming for the Houston scientist who has just received two more high-profile awards.
  
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• Scripps researcher developing vaccine to battle heroin addiction

  25-01-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  It wasn't the ongoing opioid overdose crisis that inspired Kim Janda to start developing a heroin vaccine. America's latest drug problem hadn't even really set in when the Scripps Research Institute chemist went to work in his lab. But developing countries were witnessing an HIV spike, driven in part by intravenous drug use, and Janda wanted to find a way to fight it.
  
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• Researcher developing a heroin vaccine - and it could be a game-changer

  25-01-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  It wasn't the ongoing opioid overdose crisis that inspired Kim Janda to start developing a heroin vaccine. America's latest drug problem hadn't even really set in when the Scripps Research Institute chemist went to work in his lab. But developing countries were witnessing an HIV spike, driven in part by intravenous drug use, and Janda wanted to find a way to fight it.
  
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• Gunshot victim alerts HPD to dead man in Braeburn parking lot

  25-01-2018 12:52 via chron.com
  One man was killed and another shot outside a Braeburn apartment complex Wednesday night, Houston Police said.
  
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• Trump 'looking forward' to being questioned under oath

  25-01-2018 06:34 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared he's "looking forward" to being questioned — under oath — in the special counsel's probe of Russian election interference and Trump's possible obstruction in the firing of the FBI director.
  Trump said he would be willing to answer questions under oath in the interview, which special counsel Robert Mueller has been seeking but which White House officials had not previously confirmed the president would grant.
  "I'm looking forward
  
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• Winning numbers for Jan. 24, 2018

  25-01-2018 05:31 via chron.com
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• New guidelines give physicians added response time for strokes

  25-01-2018 04:02 via chron.com
  New stroke-treatment guidelines were issued Wednesday that will significantly extend the time during which doctors can remove blood clots that are choking off circulation to the brain.
  The American Stroke Association's guidelines, published in the journal Stroke and released at an international meeting of the group, are based on two studies that show brain cells can still be rescued by a procedure to remove the clot up to 16 hours in selected patients. Old guidelines held doctors have just six h
  
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• 8-foot pet snake strangled owner to death, says medical examiner

  25-01-2018 03:56 via chron.com
  A 31-year-old British man suffocated to death after his 8-foot pet python wrapped itself around him, a medical examiner recently ruled, according to The Guardian.
  
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• Statewide Democratic candidates sharpen attacks on GOP

  25-01-2018 03:47 via chron.com
  With the clock running for them to get their messages out, the crowd of long-shot Democratic Party hopefuls running for Texas' top offices sharpened their attacks Wednesday night on Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
  
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• Video: Police fire up to 9 times, killing stopped motorist

  25-01-2018 03:43 via chron.com
  McLEAN, Va. - A dashboard video released Wednesday shows national park police in Virginia firing their weapons up to nine times at a car they had stopped after a four-minute, stop-and-go chase, killing an apparently unarmed motorist.
  Lawyers for the family of the dead motorist, 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar, said the video provides clear evidence police overreacted.
  "No one was even close to being in harm's way until a pair of U.S. Park Police officers repeatedly shot Bijan at close range as he sat,
  
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• Militants attack Afghan offices of children's NGO, killing 4

  25-01-2018 03:06 via chron.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants stormed the offices of Save the Children in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four people and triggering a shootout with police that lasted almost 10 hours, provincial officials and the organization said.
  The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. Among the four killed were two staffers of the non-government organization, a security guard who also worked for Save the Children and an Afghan
  
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• Richardson resigns from Rohingya refugee panel

  25-01-2018 02:52 via chron.com
  YANGON, Myanmar - Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a "whitewash and a cheerleading operation" for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
  The sudden resignation Wednesday of probably the panel's most prominent member, a former senior U.S. politician and diplomat who considered Suu Kyi a close friend, raises serious questions about international efforts to deal with the calamitous fallout of Myanmar military ope
  
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• Police find teen fatally shot in southwest Houston

  25-01-2018 02:26 via chron.com
  Police said the body of the teen was located in the 5700 block of Glenmont Drive.
  
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• Police find man fatally shot in southwest Houston

  25-01-2018 02:26 via chron.com
  Police said the body of the man was located in the 5700 block of Glenmont Drive.
  
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• Houston high schools with the best teachers

  25-01-2018 01:55 via chron.com
  It's no surprise that schools with the best teachers tend to have some of the highest performing students.
  
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• Scientists successfully clone monkeys; are humans up next?

  25-01-2018 01:52 via chron.com
  NEW YORK - For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans.
  Since Dolly's birth in 1996, scientists have cloned nearly two dozen kinds of mammals, including dogs, cats, pigs, cows and polo ponies, and have also created human embryos with this method. But until now, they have been unable to make babies this way in primates, the category that i
  
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• Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America

  25-01-2018 01:41 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON - A request by the Justice Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census could shift the nation's balance of political power from cities to more rural communities over the next decade and give Republicans a new advantage drawing electoral boundaries.
  Population numbers produced by the census are used in many ways, notably to draw political districts and distribute government funds. Adding questions to the decennial survey is usually a controversial and difficult process
  
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• Study: New technology extends time to respond to strokes

  25-01-2018 01:20 via chron.com
  Advanced brain imaging technology may give doctors an additional 10 hours or more to respond to some strokes, researchers said Wednesday, a development that may soon bring major changes to the way hospitals treat one of the leading causes of disability and death.
  The research is upending doctors' long-held belief that they have just six hours to save threatened brain tissue from lack of blood flow when a major vessel to the brain is blocked. The new findings suggest they may have as long as 16 h
  
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• Shots fired after crash in Northwest Houston

  25-01-2018 00:49 via chron.com
  Police are investigating gunfire in Northwest Houston that happened moments after a crash.
  
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