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• Lupe Valdez makes payments on overdue taxes

  25-05-2018 23:49 via chron.com
  A day after making headlines for having more than $12,000 in overdue tax bills, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Lupe Valdez on Friday began paying off some of the arrears.Dallas County Tax Office online records show Valdez, 70, the former Dallas County sheriff, had nearly $4,700 in pending payments on six properties she owns in Dallas -- including two that were being fully paid off.
  
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• Santa Fe teacher Cynthia Tisdale remembered as a lifelong caretaker

  25-05-2018 22:01 via chron.com
  Had Cynthia Tisdale not been in the art room at Santa Fe High School a week ago helping to shelter students from a gunman, her family said, she would have turned 64 Friday. Instead her loved ones bid her farewell during a service at League City's Bay Area Church and buried her at the Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Dickinson.
  
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• Woman who claimed a Texas trooper sexually assaulted her could face charges

  25-05-2018 19:59 via chron.com
  Ellis County District Attorney Patrick Wilson told WFAA-TV that his office is "investigating the possibility" of bringing charges against the woman.
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Lisa Falkenberg taking helm of Chronicle editorial section

  25-05-2018 19:44 via chron.com
  Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Lisa Falkenberg is taking charge of the Houston Chronicle's opinion section as vice president and editor for opinion.
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Lisa Falkenberg taking helm of Chronicle editorial page

  25-05-2018 19:44 via chron.com
  Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Lisa Falkenberg is taking charge of the Houston Chronicle's opinion section as vice president and editor for opinion.
  
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• East Texas man scheduled for execution files late-stage appeal claiming intellectual disability

  25-05-2018 19:21 via chron.com
  An East Texas killer scheduled for execution in June is hoping to evade the death chamber with a last-ditch appeal arguing he's too intellectually disabled to execute.
  
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• Man, woman die in murder-suicide in Acres Homes area as 6-month-old was nearby

  25-05-2018 18:56 via chron.com
  A man gunned down a woman at an Acres Homes-area apartment Friday morning before turning the gun on himself, all while a 6-month-old baby was in the residence.
  
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• Man charged in 2017 death of coworker with crowbar in SW Houston

  25-05-2018 18:29 via chron.com
  The Harris County District Attorney's Office filed murder charges on Wednesday against Juan Aguilus, 67, in the death of Rosalio Espino-Sandoval, 66. Aguilus is still at large.
  
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• Trump comes to the aid of Tomi Lahren after she had a drink thrown at her

  25-05-2018 18:18 via chron.com
  "Everybody is with Tomi Lahren," Trump tweeted after her public skirmish.
  
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• Remembering Memorial Day 2015's costly, deadly flooding

  25-05-2018 18:10 via chron.com
  Looking back it was a dress rehearsal of sorts for what would come a few years later.
  
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• In a tight race, billionaire Koch brothers take aim at Beto O'Rourke

  25-05-2018 18:06 via chron.com
  Beto O'Rourke is ruffling some big feathers.
  
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• MS-13 gang member suspected of shooting, burning Texas man arrested

  25-05-2018 17:03 via chron.com
  South Carolina police have arrested an MS-13 gang member accused of shooting a Texas man to death and burning his body.
  
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• Audit: UH's financial aid systems didn't properly vet students

  25-05-2018 17:00 via chron.com
  The University of Houston gave incorrect amounts of federal money to students asking for financial aid because campus systems did not properly evaluate student eligibility, state auditors found. The audit focused on the University of Houston's distribution of financial aid, including through federal work-study money, the Pell Grant for low-income students and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Auditors found similar problems at UH in 2016 as well. Spokesman Mike Rosen said UH has
  
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• Texas Child Protection leader slams foster care pregnancy report

  25-05-2018 16:51 via chron.com
  The leader of Texas Child Protection is slamming a recent report that found high rates of teen pregnancy in foster care, calling the data "more sensational than fact."
  
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• Man accused in money laundering case to be tried in Houston federal court

  25-05-2018 16:15 via chron.com
  Tochukwu Nwosisi is one of six people, including two men from Houston, charged in February in connection with the alleged scheme, which defrauded victims of more than $7 million.
  
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• Stamp honoring first woman in space Sally Ride now available at U.S. Post Office

  25-05-2018 16:00 via chron.com
  Postage stamps honoring Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, officially became available at the U.S. Post Office this week.
  
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• Memorial Hermann's Sugar Land leader to head TMC hospital

  25-05-2018 16:00 via chron.com
  The Memorial Hermann Health System is promoting its suburban Sugar Land hospital leader to become the next CEO of its flagship hospital in Houston's Texas Medical Center.
  
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• A lost load of butchered pig heads made Houston traffic a little worse this week

  25-05-2018 14:25 via chron.com
  A lost load of butchered pig heads made the usual commute along I-10 extra fun on Thursday afternoon for travelers along the busy stretch of interstate.
  
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• Murderabilia for sale from Houston man accused of decapitating mother

  25-05-2018 14:00 via chron.com
  Murderabilia from a Houston man accused of decapitating his mother hit the market this month week, even before the case made to trial.
  
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• Bus carrying inmates involved in crash in downtown Houston

  25-05-2018 13:41 via chron.com
  A police bus carrying inmates was involved in a crash in downtown Houston Friday morning.
  
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• SWAT takes man into custody after bounty hunters track him down in SW Houston

  25-05-2018 13:16 via chron.com
  The bounty hunters found the man around 6 p.m., but he took off running to the second floor of an apartment in the 9160 block of Imogene, Metro Video reported.
  
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• Harris County releases Hurricane Harvey after-action report

  25-05-2018 13:05 via chron.com
  After months of work, Harris County officials this week released its Hurricane Harvey After Action Report, which attempted to assess how the county responded to the storm and what it could do so better in future disasters.
  
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• What are you worth to City Hall?

  25-05-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  Well, about $470.
  
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• Outside groups poured $2M into Houston Congressional race

  25-05-2018 12:30 via chron.com
  Houston and Harris County voters were bombarded by outside political messages from hard to track Super PACs like no other area of the state in 2018. Nearly $2 million was spent on things like mailers, television ads and automated phone calls trying to influence Republican voters in the 2nd Congressional District, which runs for West Houston to northeast Harris County. That was more money spent than any Congressional race in Texas, edging out the 21st Congressional District which similarly had an
  
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• Jury returns split verdict in international kidnapping case involving Houston boy

  25-05-2018 07:00 via chron.com
  The vacationing grandparents of a Houston boy were convicted Friday of aiding in an international kidnapping in a widely publicized dispute over an 8-year-old boy taken by his mother to Brazil in 2013. The same federal court jury, however, acquitted the couple — Carlos and Jemima Guimaraes — of related conspiracy charges.
  
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• Family of teen killed in Santa Fe shooting seeks $1M in wrongful death suit

  25-05-2018 04:55 via chron.com
  According to the wrongful death suit, Christopher Stone and Rosie Yanas, the parents of Christopher Jake Stone, say that Dimitrios Pagourtzis' parents failed to properly secure their firearms from their son, allowing him unsupervised access.
  
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• 1 dead, 1 injured in related shootings in southeast Houston

  25-05-2018 04:07 via chron.com
  There were multiple shooters, according to Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo.
  
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• 1 dead, 1 injured in related shooting in southeast Houston

  25-05-2018 04:07 via chron.com
  There were multiple shooters, according to Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo.
  
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• Hey Alexa, come clean about how much you're really recording us

  25-05-2018 04:04 via chron.com
  We're learning an important lesson about cutting-edge voice technology: Amazon's Alexa is always listening. So are Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri.
  Putting live microphones in our homes has always been an out-there idea. But tech companies successfully marketed talking speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home to millions by assuring they only record us when we give a "wake word."
  That turns out to be a misnomer. These devices are always "awake," passively listening for the command to
  
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• Santa Fe City Council marks tragedy with moment of silence

  25-05-2018 02:33 via chron.com
  Mayor Pro-tem Corey Jannett  read a resolution memorializing May 18, 2018, a day when "an act of evil shattered the start of a school day."
  
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• Convicted killer from infamous “Texas 7” prison escape gets execution date

  25-05-2018 02:31 via chron.com
  Joseph Garcia, a Bexar County man who helped pull off the Texas prison system's biggest escape, is scheduled to die in August.
  
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• Man who threatened to burn cashier alive sentenced to 99 years

  25-05-2018 02:18 via chron.com
  According to prosecutors, Terrence Dwayne Small, 49, threatened to burn a cashier alive, and exchanged gunfire with Baytown Police coming to her rescue. He was convicted following a three-day trial.
  
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• Man threatened to burn cashier alive sentence to 99 years

  25-05-2018 02:18 via chron.com
  According to prosecutors, Terrence Dwayne Small, 49, threatened to burn a cashier alive, and exchanged gunfire with Baytown Police coming to her rescue. He was convicted following a three-day trial.
  
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• Elderly woman shot in west Houston grocery store parking lot

  25-05-2018 00:39 via chron.com
  The circumstances surrounding the shooting are still unclear, police said.
  
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• Elderly woman shot in west Houston

  25-05-2018 00:39 via chron.com
  The circumstances surrounding the shooting are still unclear, police said.
  
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• Andy Rubin's phone maker Essential said to consider sale

  25-05-2018 00:21 via chron.com
  Essential Products Inc., a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin that launched last year to great fanfare, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone, according to people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Customers, employees rush out of burning Popeyes in east Houston

  25-05-2018 00:05 via chron.com
  The restaurant will likely be closed for the time being.
  
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