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• Man accused of exposing, touching himself outside Houston day care - KPRC Click2Houston

  24-09-2019 23:56
  Man accused of exposing, touching himself outside Houston day care  KPRC Click2HoustonA man was charged after being accused of exposing and touching himself in front of children outside a day care in downtown Houston, according to charging ...
  
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• Houston School Bus Drivers Say District Made Them Drive In Floods ‘Like An Ocean’ - Houston Public Media

  24-09-2019 23:21
  Houston School Bus Drivers Say District Made Them Drive In Floods ‘Like An Ocean’  Houston Public MediaHouston Educational Support Personnel, the local union for bus drivers and other school workers, said the Houston Independent School District should act faster ...
  
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• Rockets add Jaron Blossomgame to training camp roster - Chron

  24-09-2019 23:00
  Rockets add Jaron Blossomgame to training camp roster  ChronThe Rockets will sign free-agent forward Jaron Blossomgame to an Exhibit 10 contract, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Tuesday. The Athletic ...
  
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• Live roaches highlight restaurant violations for September 16 to September 22

  24-09-2019 22:30 via chron.com
  At one Houston restaurant, inspectors observed one live adult roach in the kitchen prep area and one dead insect in a container of rice, the records show.
  
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• Sam Houston State, McNeese State added to Texas A&M's future football schedules - The Dallas Morning News

  24-09-2019 21:51
  Sam Houston State, McNeese State added to Texas A&M's future football schedules  The Dallas Morning NewsTexas A&M added two future non-conference matchups against Southland Conference teams Tuesday.A&M will open its 2022 season against local...
  
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• Tomball police identify man accused of moving ambulance while it was treating 2-year-old

  24-09-2019 21:36 via chron.com
  Tomball police say they have identified a man who reportedly moved an ambulance while technicians were treating a 2-year-old in the back.According to Tomball PD, emergency services were being rendered to a toddler in the back of an ambulance while in the parking lot at Concordia Lutheran High during a little league football game.
  
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• Now that's a homecoming: Houston-area soldier gives sister surprise visit at football game

  24-09-2019 21:34 via chron.com
  The surprise was not originally planned, Jared Herman said, but a result of luck.
  The Klein Collins High School homecoming game was scheduled for Thursday, two days prior to Jared Herman's arrival, but was abruptly rescheduled due to Tropical Storm Imelda's downpour last week.
  
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• University of Houston-Victoria campus lifts lockdown amid reports of box cutter attack - Houston Chronicle

  24-09-2019 21:31
  University of Houston-Victoria campus lifts lockdown amid reports of box cutter attack  Houston ChronicleThe University of Houston Victoria campus is on lockdown following reports that a man carrying a box cutter allegedly attacked individuals near the campus.
  
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• 10 students’ scores kept Pearland ISD from an A rating

  24-09-2019 21:30 via chron.com
  Pearland Independent School District saw its earned A rating from the Texas Education Agency downgraded to a B because 10 students in one school didn’t perform well on a state math assessment.
  The district is appealing the score, but Superintendent John Kelly said he is happy overall with how TEA grades school districts.
  He said the accountability system places a much higher value on individual student growth and on how prepared graduates are when it comes to entering college, starting a c
  
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• Happy birthday to Loop 610, one of Houston's most maligned freeways - Chron

  24-09-2019 21:27
  Happy birthday to Loop 610, one of Houston's most maligned freeways  ChronThe original loop around Houston turned 44 years old this week. Loop 610, that sometimes troublesome highway encircling the inner city, was finally completed ...
  
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• Happy birthday to Loop 610, one of Houston's most maligned freeways

  24-09-2019 21:03 via chron.com
  The original loop around Houston turned 44 years old this week.
  
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• University of Houston-Victoria campus lifts lockdown amid reports of box cutter attack

  24-09-2019 20:38 via chron.com
  The University of Houston Victoria campus is on lockdown following reports that a man carrying a box cutter allegedly attacked individuals near the campus.
  
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• Pioneer Japanese retailer Daido bows out as larger competitors enter Houston market - Houston Chronicle

  24-09-2019 20:31
  Pioneer Japanese retailer Daido bows out as larger competitors enter Houston market  Houston Chronicle Nippan Daido was the only grocery store serving the Japanese and Japanese American community in Houston and beyond for decades.
  
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• Baby dolphin bitten by shark off the Texas coast, wounds being treated in Galveston

  24-09-2019 20:27 via chron.com
  See how a team from the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network found a dolphin wounded by shark bites.
  
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• Houston-area high school football media poll: Week 5 - Chron

  24-09-2019 20:06
  Houston-area high school football media poll: Week 5  ChronHere come the Bears. Following a milestone 48-14 win over reigning district champion Cypress Ranch, second-year varsity program Bridgeland - which debuted ...
  
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• Shoot the Moon, Houston’s First Self-Serve Bar, Is in the Works - Eater Houston

  24-09-2019 19:49
  Shoot the Moon, Houston’s First Self-Serve Bar, Is in the Works  Eater HoustonWelcome to AM Intel, a (mostly) daily round-up of Houston's hottest bits of dining intel. Trying to stay on top of Space City's endlessly vibrant dining scene?
  
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• Texas-based Buc-ee’s ranked best gas station coffee in the nation by GasBuddy

  24-09-2019 18:55 via chron.com
  GasBuddy, a smartphone app that helps fuel consumers with prices, analyzed over 2 million ratings from their app pertaining to gas stations that sell coffee throughout the nation, and Buc-ee's came out on top.
  
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• How Texas A&M vets helped save 100 animals after Tropical Storm Imelda

  24-09-2019 18:49 via chron.com
  Like many residents of southeast Texas, this team of emergency vets has just been through a chaotic two weeks, and they're still rescuing animals after Imelda.
  
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• Former Dobie High School student charged with capital murder - Chron

  24-09-2019 18:39
  Former Dobie High School student charged with capital murder  ChronA 17-year-old former Dobie High School student is facing a capital murder charge, accused of fatally shooting another teen who refused to give him his necklace ...
  
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• Hundreds of dogs rescued from Texas warehouse connected to alleged nonprofit animal rescue scheme

  24-09-2019 17:43 via chron.com
  An investigation concluded Tiffany L. Woodington, 49, and her husband Steven, 59, were allegedly operating a nonprofit animal rescue called "All Accounted For" in Cole Camp, Missouri.The pair is accused of housing animals in "severely inhumane conditions" at the Texas warehouse and then transporting them to a property in Cole Camp, according to the Benton County MO Sheriff's Office.
  
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• 2019 Series Preview #51: Houston Astros @ Seattle Mariners - The Crawfish Boxes

  24-09-2019 16:30
  2019 Series Preview #51: Houston Astros @ Seattle Mariners  The Crawfish BoxesThe Astros (102-54, 1st in AL West) close out the season on the road starting with two against the Mariners (66-90, 5th in AL West)
  
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• Houston Democrat Lizzie Fletcher open to impeachment of Trump over Ukraine reports

  24-09-2019 16:11 via chron.com
  U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher on Tuesday signaled she may support impeaching President Donald Trump once Congress investigates an escalating scandal involving reports that the president pushed Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden's family.
  
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• Pair makes dangerous dart across I-45 to evade Houston police, captured by K9s

  24-09-2019 15:04 via chron.com
  A man and woman accused of evading Houston police officers during a midnight pursuit along the North Freeway were arrested after darting across the highway, police say.
  
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• Here's how flooding from Tropical Depression Imelda impacted Houston neighborhoods - Houston Business Journal

  24-09-2019 15:00
  Here's how flooding from Tropical Depression Imelda impacted Houston neighborhoods  Houston Business JournalWhile state and local officials are still assessing the damage wrought last week by Tropical Depression Imelda, some neighborhoods are breathing easier, ...
  
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• Former Dobie High School student charged with capital murder

  24-09-2019 14:52 via chron.com
  Jourdan Ellison knew the teen he is accused of killing on Sept. 4 at an apartment in the 1800 block of St. Joseph Parkway, a Harris County prosecutor said at Ellison's probable cause hearing on Saturday. Ellison was arrested on Friday after three witnesses identified him as the person who shot 19-year-old Christian Lezama at his home.
  
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• Dobie High School student charged with capital murder

  24-09-2019 14:52 via chron.com
  Jourdan Ellison knew the teen he is accused of killing on Sept. 4 at an apartment in the 1800 block of St. Joseph Parkway, a Harris County prosecutor said at Ellison's probable cause hearing on Saturday. Ellison was arrested on Friday after three witnesses identified him as the person who shot 19-year-old Christian Lezama at his home.
  
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• You can thank Russia for the beautiful purple sunrise over Houston this morning - KHOU.com

  24-09-2019 14:48
  You can thank Russia for the beautiful purple sunrise over Houston this morning  KHOU.comHOUSTON — Have you noticed the beautiful purple in our sunrises and sunsets lately? The National Weather *Service* in Houston says the purple tint is due, ...
  
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• Houston Texans: Now is the time to trade Keke Coutee - Toro Times

  24-09-2019 14:15
  Houston Texans: Now is the time to trade Keke Coutee  Toro TimesWith the explosion of wide receiver Kenny Stills, the Houston Texans have developed less of a need for wide receiver Keke Coutee.
  
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• How the Houston Chronicle transformed its coverage of homicides - Poynter

  24-09-2019 14:02
  How the Houston Chronicle transformed its coverage of homicides  PoynterNearly every newsroom has to cover homicides, “but they happen in big numbers in big cities,” said Matt Dempsey, data editor of the Houston Chronicle.
  
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• Fox apologizes after conservative pundit calls activist Greta Thunberg 'mentally ill'

  24-09-2019 14:01 via chron.com
  Michael Knowles had just finished discussing why he believes meatless diets may be worse for the environment during a Monday Fox News segment about climate change when he suddenly pivoted to one of the day's biggest stories.
  
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• 5 treated after exposure to carbon monoxide at west Houston apartment

  24-09-2019 13:56 via chron.com
  Five people, including two children, were taken to a hospital overnight Monday after reportedly being exposed to carbon monoxide at a west Houston apartment complex.
  
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• Woman shot, killed outside southeast Houston apartment complex - Chron

  24-09-2019 13:33
  Woman shot, killed outside southeast Houston apartment complex  ChronA woman was gunned down in the parking lot of an apartment complex in southeast Houston early Tuesday — and police are asking the public for help in ...
  
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• Woman shot, killed outside southeast Houston apartment complex

  24-09-2019 13:33 via chron.com
  Lt. W.L. Meeler said the woman, a black female in her mid to late 30s, was found with multiple gunshot wounds. She has been not been identified.
  
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• Houston’s role in lifting India [Opinion] - Houston Chronicle

  24-09-2019 10:00
  Houston’s role in lifting India [Opinion]  Houston Chronicle Chemical sector innovation is crucial to helping to resolve India's food safety and security challenges.
  
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• Volcanic ash dusts Houston skyline with purple haze

  24-09-2019 07:00 via chron.com
  Volcanic ash dusts Houston skyline with purple haze
  
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• Medical Examiner: Fallen Houston firefighter suffered heart attack - Chron

  24-09-2019 01:45
  Medical Examiner: Fallen Houston firefighter suffered heart attack  ChronA Houston firefighter who collapsed outside of his station Saturday evening died of an apparent heart attack, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic ...
  
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• Pizza is pushing in new directions in Houston - Houston Chronicle

  24-09-2019 00:00
  Pizza is pushing in new directions in Houston  Houston Chronicle Priyanka Bins is deliberately trying to stay away from her favorite new pizza in Houston. Her office is only two blocks from BOH Pasta & Pizza, a vendor making ...
  
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