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New DEA chief in Houston has Escobar collec
Hanging from the wall in the office of the new Drug Enforcement Administration chief for Houston is a photo of Pablo Escobar’s corpse sprawled on a Colombian rooftop.
Scrawled on the photo is a message from a Colombian federal agent in...
Fog idles Houston Ship Channel vessels-Coast Guard
Fog idled ship traffic on the Houston Ship Channel for a second day, said the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday.
Twenty-three ships were waiting to transit the waterway to the busiest U.S. petrochemical port at Houston, and 25 ships were waiting to...
Houston could get back to 80 degrees
Slightly muggy heat and a slim chance of rain are likely during the next several days in the Houston region as warm, moist air flows inland from the Gulf of Mexico. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms is possible each day through...
Houston Unemployment Rises As State Rate Falls
Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 7.3% in January. That’s down from 7.4% percent in December and from just over 8% in January of last year. The Texas unemployment rate is a full percentage point below the national rate...
Jury says U.S. can seize $330M from fraudster Stanford
A Texas jury cleared the way Thursday for U.S. authorities to go after $330 million in stolen investor funds sitting in frozen foreign bank accounts controlled by convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford.
The jury, which convicted the former...
Foster signs 5-year deal to stay in Houston
Arian Foster’s mother finally got her fruit basket. The Texans star running back fulfilled a childhood promise to her on Tuesday after signing a five-year, $43.5 million to stay in Houston.
When Foster was growing up in Albuquerque, N.M.,...
Houston region is now the most diverse in the U.S.
The Houston metropolitan area is now the most ethnically diverse large metropolitan area in the country, with two suburbs – Pearland and Missouri City – leading the region in diversity. The findings come from a new report from Rice...
2 Houston pilots detained in Panam
Two Houston pilots are back in the United States after a 10-month ordeal in which they were detained in Panama as part of a money laundering investigation.
Kenneth Chonoski and Carl Moody were conditionally released and allowed to temporarily...
Houston-area happenings Feb. 29 through March 7
HOUSTON URBAN ADVENTURE, Date: March 3, Location: Registration begins at 11 a.m. at Lucky’s Pub, 801 Saint Emanuel Street, and the race begins at noon.
Lynx trade forward Houston to Phoenix
The Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday executed a sign-and-trade deal with the Phoenix Mercury, sending forward Charde Houston and the 24th overall pick in the upcoming 2012 WNBA draft to the Mercury in exchange for the 18th overall selection in this...