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• 2 men plead guilty to mortgage fraud in Houston, Surfside Beach

  08-02-2018 23:59 via chron.com
  Between 2005 and 2009, those involved induced mortgage lenders to loan more money than properties' actual worth and then skimmed the excess funds from real estate transactions, according to the news release.
  
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• 'Cartoonish' police sketch helps police identify suspect

  08-02-2018 23:01 via chron.com
  It's no masterpiece, but it got the job done.
  
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• HCC trustee Dave Wilson again lashes out over censure

  08-02-2018 23:00 via chron.com
  Houston Community College trustee Dave Wilson argued that his fellow board members' decision to censure him was a violation of his constitutional rights in an amendment to a lawsuit he filed last fall. "On reasonable belief, trustees are not within the scope of their authority to censure another trustee for acts, or omissions protected by the First Amendment," read the lawsuit, which was filed in October and also accuses fellow board members improperly allowing a remote vote at a meeting.
  
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• Charges dismissed against Prairie View cop who Tased city councilman

  08-02-2018 22:49 via chron.com
  Charges have been dropped against a Prairie View police officer who used a Taser on a city council member while arresting him in 2015. But the former councilman has filed a federal suit against both officers who were on the scene that night, the city of Prairie View and the Prairie View Police Department.
  
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• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick takes issue with actress Sandra Bullock

  08-02-2018 22:36 via chron.com
  Texas Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick is not too pleased that Oscar winning actress Sandra Bullock has agree to star in a movie about Texas senator Wendy Davis, whose 13-hour filibuster helped stall an anti-abortion bill in 2013. "It saddens me that Sandra Bullock agreed to play Wendy Davis in a movie called 'Let Her Speak,'" Patrick said in downtown Austin, just miles from where Bullock once owned a home.
  
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• 6 Houston men arrested at border after Laredo ATM heist

  08-02-2018 21:49 via chron.com
  Six Houston men were arrested at a border checkpoint with tens of thousands of dollars in cash that police said was stolen in an ATM robbery in Laredo Tuesday. Three of the men also had previous charges for an ATM robbery in Houston on Oct. 24, Harris County court records show.
  
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• NRA endorses Kevin Roberts in Houston area congressional race

  08-02-2018 18:44 via chron.com
  One of the most influential interest groups in Republican politics is throwing its support behind Republican Kevin Roberts in one of the most wide open Republican Primaries for Congress in Texas. The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund, formally endorsed Roberts, a current state representative from Houston, in the 2nd Congressional District over eight other Republicans in the race.
  
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• East Texas ZIP codes with the highest mortality rates

  08-02-2018 17:03 via chron.com
  One ZIP code in the Fifth Ward has one of the highest infant mortality rates in all of East Texas.
  
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• East Texas ZIP codes with the highest infant mortality rates

  08-02-2018 17:03 via chron.com
  One ZIP code in the Fifth Ward has one of the highest infant mortality rates in all of East Texas.
  
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• 'Inside the NFL' honors coach who drowned helping others during Harvey

  08-02-2018 16:39 via chron.com
  The Showtime program wrapped up its 2017-18 season with a 5-minute segment on Ruben Jordan, the former Clear Creek High School track and football coach who died in August 2017.
  
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• Accused pedophile to return to Houston after being found in Canadian woods

  08-02-2018 16:16 via chron.com
  Aamir Khan was charged in Harris County in October with indecency with a child and in November with sexual assault of a child. Both of those second-degree felonies could carry between two and 20 years in prison.
  
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• How can colleges graduate Hispanic students in STEM? A conference at UH looks for answers

  08-02-2018 15:14 via chron.com
  Hispanic-serving institutions like the University of Houston are looking for answers as they try and figure out how to attract their students to science, technology, engineering and math fields -- and how to best support them in these studies. UH is expecting to host students, faculty and staff from Hispanic-serving institutions -- a federal designation noting that at least a quarter of students are Hispanic and at least half qualify for need-based financial aid -- at a conference next week.
  
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• Kale to go: Amazon to roll out delivery at Whole Foods

  08-02-2018 14:34 via chron.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon delivery is coming to Whole Foods.
  The online retailing giant plans to roll out two-hour delivery at the organic grocer this year to those who pay for Amazon's $99-a-year Prime membership.
  The move is the latest by Amazon to put its stamp on its recent purchase of Whole Foods. Amazon has cut prices on bananas, yogurt and other items, and began selling Kindle e-readers in some of its 470 stores.
  Since Amazon bought Whole Foods last year, rival grocers have been workin
  
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• Who you gonna call? Fort Worth police chase goes viral thanks to 'Ghostbusters'

  08-02-2018 14:08 via chron.com
  Thankfully, Zuul wasn't involved.
  
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• 18-wheeler fatal wreck closes lanes on Almeda near Reed

  08-02-2018 13:34 via chron.com
  All main lanes are closed on Almeda southbound after Reed Road, according to Houston Transtar.
  
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• Houston police nab three in Highway 290 gas station robbery

  08-02-2018 13:21 via chron.com
  Houston police caught three suspects early Thursday after a reported burglary at a northwest Freeway cell phone store.
  
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• 3 arrested in Houston cell phone store robbery

  08-02-2018 13:21 via chron.com
  Houston police arrested three people after a cell phone store was burglarized early Thursday.
  
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• Safe stolen in Clear Lake smash and grab at Valero station

  08-02-2018 13:01 via chron.com
  Burglars crashed a van into a Clear Lake gas station early Thursday and stole a safe, Houston police said.
  
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• Q&A: How would major changes work at 14 Houston ISD schools?

  08-02-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  Houston ISD's proposals for major changes at 14 low-performing campuses have provoked much uncertainty and confusion. With rumors spreading and questions abound, here are answers to many common questions about the district's proposals.
  
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• Despite Gov. Greg Abbott's veto, Harris County seeks to criminalize floodplain violations

  08-02-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  Harris County officials are asking state lawmakers to pass a bill that would criminalize the violation of the county's floodplain regulations, despite Gov. Greg Abbott's veto of such legislation last year.
  
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• Man shot several times near University of Houston

  08-02-2018 05:53 via chron.com
  A man was shot several times outside a mini-mart, blocks away from the University of Houston Wednesday evening.
  
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• Winning numbers for Feb. 7, 2018

  08-02-2018 05:46 via chron.com
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• Houston firefighters battling blaze in northwest Houston

  08-02-2018 05:21 via chron.com
  Crews are on scene of a structure fire in an industrial area in northwest Houston Wednesday night.
  
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• Fire at NW Houston industrial site likely electrical

  08-02-2018 05:21 via chron.com
  Crews extinguished a structure fire in an industrial area in northwest Houston Wednesday night.
  
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• Houston's Korean community protests Olympic show of unity

  08-02-2018 05:05 via chron.com
  About 100 members of Houston's Korean community - many of whom endured the horrors of war in the 1950s - staged a demonstration Wednesday as the Winter Olympics are poised to begin in their home country.
  Group members waved the South Korean flag, which will be sidelined in favor of a Korean Unity pendant at this week's opening ceremony, and burned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in effigy after singing the South Korean anthem.
  Instead of simply stirring national pride, the international games ar
  
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• His father's death and Harvey inspired Democrat to run for governor

  08-02-2018 04:42 via chron.com
  Andrew White clearly remembers last August when he stood up to deliver a eulogy at his father's funeral.
  As he described the hard decisions made by his father, former Texas Gov. Mark White, he realized a change is needed among the state's current crop of politicians."It hit me at that funeral that we don't have leaders like that anymore," said White during a campaign event held Wednesday evening for him at Kirby Ice House.Dozens of supporters gathered in the chilly weather and hovered by the hea
  
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• Pelosi stages talkathon to push 'Dreamers' vote

  08-02-2018 03:39 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech Wednesday in an attempt to force a House vote on protections for the "Dreamer" immigrants - and to prove to an increasingly angry wing of progressives and activists that she has done all she could.
  Wearing four-inch heels and forgoing any breaks, Pelosi spent much of the rare talkathon reading personal letters from the young immigrants whose temporary protection from deportation is set to expire next mont
  
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• HFD called to high rise in downtown after smoke reported in lobby

  08-02-2018 02:46 via chron.com
  Firefighters arrived at the building in the 500 block of Dallas Street around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, HFD call logs show.
  
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• John Perry Barlow, internet pioneer and Grateful Dead lyricist, dies at 70

  08-02-2018 02:30 via chron.com
  John Perry Barlow, who co-founded the premier organization that champions civil liberties online and also wrote lyrics for the Grateful Dead, died Wednesday morning.
  
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• Klein ISD student charged for having gun at school

  08-02-2018 01:24 via chron.com
  Nicholas Nguyen, 18, was charged with exhibiting a firearm on school property, court records show.
  
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• Russian hackers reportedly targeted U.S. defense contractors

  08-02-2018 00:50 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON - Russian hackers exploited a key vulnerability in U.S. cyber defenses to come within reach of stealing some of the nation's most secret and advanced defense technology, an Associated Press investigation has found.
  What may have been stolen is uncertain, but the cyberspies clearly took advantage of poorly protected email and scant direct notification of victims.
  The hackers known as Fancy Bear, who also intruded in the U.S. election, went after at least 87 people working on military d
  
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• Disaster relief back on the table as part of budget deal in Congress

  08-02-2018 00:43 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON – A major budget deal brokered by Senate leaders Wednesday was a long time coming, but it could sweeten the pot for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and other natural disasters.
  The Senate agreement could provide nearly $90 billion in aid for Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and other states and territories hit by storms and wildfires. That would be about a 10 percent bump from the $81 billion disaster aid package passed in December by the House.
  The new funding, if adopted by the Hou
  
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• Suspect in January's fatal Third Ward shooting arrested

  08-02-2018 00:30 via chron.com
  After receiving a call about a shooting, police found the victim's body shot multiple times lying on the street. Neighbors had unsuccessfully tried providing medical aid.
  
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• Pelosi takes to the House floor to defend Dreamers

  08-02-2018 00:07 via chron.com
  Nancy Pelosi has been telling the stories of DACA recipients for more than seven hours now -- and is still going. She's already set the record for the longest speech ever given on the House floor.
  
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• Trump harassment accuser running for office in Ohio

  08-02-2018 00:06 via chron.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rachel Crooks' allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump have been dismissed by the president and his supporters, so she has a new approach to ensure her message is heard: She's running for office.
  The 35-year-old university administrator launched a campaign this week for a seat in the Ohio Legislature. The first-time candidate, a Democrat, said she was motivated in part to run because Trump has escaped consequences for the harassment alleged by her and other women.
  
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• Questions on insulin quality have diabetes experts scrambling

  08-02-2018 00:02 via chron.com
  TRENTON, N.J. - Preliminary research suggesting that some diabetes patients may be injecting medicine that has partially disintegrated is causing concern even as serious questions are raised about the research itself.
  The study author, a pharmacist, bought vials of insulin at a number of pharmacies and found that on average the vials had less than half of what was listed on the label and none met a minimum standard.
  The study tested just 18 vials of insulin - far too few to be definitive - and q
  
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