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• Deputies: Dive team set to recover body of drowned man in Crosby

  06-07-2018 23:41 via chron.com
  A man who went swimming in a retention pond drowned Friday afternoon, according to a tweet by the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Bomb squad deployed to IAH to investigate reported 'suspicious package'

  06-07-2018 23:31 via chron.com
  A Houston bomb squad responded Friday to a reported "suspicious package" in George Bush Intercontinental Airport. They have given the all clear.
  
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• Things to know about white nationalists, the hate group targeting Texas colleges

  06-07-2018 23:17 via chron.com
  The Lone Star State was home to nearly a fourth of the total 292 documented cases of racist propaganda, which include fliers, stickers, banners and posters.
  
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• Trump weighs 2 or 3 candidates for court, to meet with Pence

  06-07-2018 22:17 via chron.com
  BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — Savoring the suspense, President Donald Trump is weighing his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from the seclusion of his golf club in New Jersey, consulting with the vice president and others as he zeroes in on a nominee.
  Ahead of a Monday night announcement from the East Room in the White House, the president told reporters he was focused on four people and "of the four people I have it down to three or two." He was s
  
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• Funeral for boy known as 'Little Jacob' held in Houston

  06-07-2018 21:49 via chron.com
  Jayden Lopez, the 4-year old formerly known as "Little Jacob" whose body washed ashore in Galveston last fall, was laid to rest in Houston on Friday.
  
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• With 7 execution dates on the calendar, Texas just got more lethal injection drugs

  06-07-2018 21:15 via chron.com
  Amid speculation about its ability to carry out the flurry of new executions on the calendar, the Texas prison system in recent weeks received 15 more doses of the powerful barbiturate used in its Huntsville death chamber.
  
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• Security van driver robbed, attacked in Gulfgate area

  06-07-2018 20:12 via chron.com
  The caller told HPD that the attackers got away in a white utility truck with an extended cab and ladders on the top.
  
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• Police: Security van driver robbed at gunpoint and attacked in Gulfgate area

  06-07-2018 20:12 via chron.com
  The caller told HPD that the attackers got away in a white utility truck with an extended cab and ladders on the top.
  
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• Car flips, crashes into toll both in NW Harris County

  06-07-2018 20:09 via chron.com
  The driver in the flipped car sustained minor injuries and was transported by emergency medical personnel to the Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital. The other driver was not injured, authorities said.
  
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• New things to do in Houston even natives don't know about

  06-07-2018 19:04 via chron.com
  Everyone has been to the staple Houston spots like The Galleria or Houston Zoo.
  
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• Houston's beautiful orange pink sky at sunset, explained by science

  06-07-2018 17:38 via chron.com
  The answer is rather simple.
  
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• Suspicious gym bag in Houston turned out to be bag of cats

  06-07-2018 17:12 via chron.com
  The Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office rescued three kittens found in a bag abandoned on the side of the road earlier this week in a West Memorial neighborhood.
  
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• Houston man accused of shooting self while fighting deputy in Fiesta Mart bathroom

  06-07-2018 16:21 via chron.com
  A man who allegedly shot himself in the leg while fighting with a deputy constable in the bathroom of a Fiesta Mart has been charged with assaulting a public servant.
  
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• Missing Richmond man located, taken to hospital

  06-07-2018 16:16 via chron.com
  Authorities have located a Richmond area man, William Thomas Long, 60, who was last seen Monday at the Shiloh Travel Park on FM 762 in the Richmond area driving a silver 2000 Oldsmobile van with the Texas license plate KYC 6398.
  
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• Fort Bend authorities seek help in finding missing Richmond-area man

  06-07-2018 16:16 via chron.com
  William Thomas Long, 60, was last seen Monday at the Shiloh Travel Park on FM 762 in the Richmond area driving a silver 2000 Oldsmobile van with the Texas license plate KYC 6398.
  
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• Man shot after fight at N. Houston bus stop

  06-07-2018 16:08 via chron.com
  A man was shot Thursday evening after a dispute outside a north Houston bus stop, according to police.
  
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• Lizzie Fletcher hits $1 million in race to unseat Houston GOP incumbent John Culberson

  06-07-2018 14:14 via chron.com
  Democratic hopeful Lizzie Pannill Fletcher has laid down a marker in one of the most closely-watched U.S. House races in the country, raising more than $1 million in past three months in her quest to unseat GOP incumbent John Culberson in Houston's Seventh Congressional District.
  
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• Happy birthday to George W. Bush, the most doll-friendly president

  06-07-2018 14:07 via chron.com
  Former President George W. Bush celebrates his 72nd birthday on Friday. You can observe the birth of the 43rd President of the United States by purchasing one of several dolls with his likeness on eBay.
  
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• Hurricane Beryl becomes first of 2018 Atlantic season

  06-07-2018 13:41 via chron.com
  "Tiny Beryl" is compact, with hurricane-force winds stretching up to 10 miles from the center, and tropical storm-level winds up to 35 miles outward, according to the National Hurricane Center.
  
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• Man shot in back on Chinatown street

  06-07-2018 13:23 via chron.com
  One person is on the run after shooting a man in the back in Chinatown Friday morning, Houston police said.
  
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• NASA is building models to predict mosquito-borne illnesses and you can help them do it

  06-07-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  NASA is developing models to predict the next mosquito-borne illness outbreak. And they're asking the public for help in doing this.
  
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• Citronella doesn't repel mosquitoes and neither do these other products

  06-07-2018 12:30 via chron.com
  Do citronella candles work? With summer in full swing and mosquitoes swarming about, you may have heard that these candles can help banish the flies.
  
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• Lions kill suspected rhino poachers in South Africa

  06-07-2018 11:21 via chron.com
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Lions have mauled to death suspected poachers who entered a South African wildlife reserve to kill rhinos.
  Nick Fox, owner of the Sibuya Game Reserve in Eastern Cape province, says human remains were found Tuesday along with a high-powered rifle, wire cutters and other equipment.
  Fox says on Facebook that at least three poachers infiltrated the reserve late Sunday or early Monday. He says it is clear that "the poachers had walked into a pride of six lions and some, if n
  
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• Police search for suspect who shot 1 in southwest Houston

  06-07-2018 04:25 via chron.com
  Houston police are searching for a suspect Thursday night after one person was shot across the street from a movie theater in Southwest Houston.
  
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• Precinct 1's recent DWI initiative results in over 50 arrests county wide

  06-07-2018 01:11 via chron.com
  A recent DWI initiative conducted by Precinct 1 resulted in 54 total arrests across Harris County.
  
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