Nearly half of Houston-area respondents living in households earning less than $25,000 a year said they would be “not at all” or “not too prepared” if a natural disaster struck, according to a Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research study. The finding highlights a gap in disaster prep...
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A Katy-area husband and wife are accused of stealing millions of dollars' worth of high-end vehicles by hacking into a computer program used to ship cars across the country, according to newly filed court records....
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire followed through on a promise Thursday, handing a University of Houston student the keys to a new car months after her vehicle was riddled with police gunfire during an arrest attempt....
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A search for a missing teen swimmer in Surfside Beach on Friday has transitioned to recovery efforts, according to the Surfside Beach Police Department....
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The Texas Department of Insurance said Thursday that home and auto insurance rates are "trending down for many Texans."
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Copper wire theft causes power outage for 2,000 residents in Cleveland, police say.
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A deadly crash on the I-610 East Loop southbound at Clinton Drive prompted all mainlanes to close on Friday, according to TxDOT.
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An ICE agent is in custody at a local hospital after police say he was shot after assaulting an elderly man and his daughter at a home in central Fresno....
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A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Panama on Friday morning, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and prompting evacuations, according to the USGC....
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Five active lieutenants with the Pasadena Police Department have filed a civil lawsuit alleging that Assistant Chief James Holt was improperly hired under state law....
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For the first time in its 50-year-history, the local Meals on Wheels program was going to reduce its home delivered meals from seven to five meals per week last year. But the community stepped up to help delay cutting the number of meals it serves—at least until the end of this y...
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Surveillance footage obtained by ABC News shows the confrontation between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers and a man in Manhattan minutes before he was shot....
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Two 20-year-old men who were last seen together near 8701 Town Park were found shot to death in separate Houston waterways, days apart, homicide detectives said. Houston police are asking for help from the public as they piece together what happened to Carlos Tzep Ajpop and Olive...
