First of Deshaun Watson’s 22 Accusers Goes Public With Her Claims
Raised in Georgia by a single mother who overcame tongue cancer, the star quarterback had a squeaky-clean image before the sexual-assault lawsuits hit.
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Diabetes Meds
Harris County’s deceptive trade practices claim against several companies that manufacture diabetes medication and companies that manage pharmacy benefits for most people in the U.S. may continue, a federal court in Houston ruled. The county claims a conspiracy between the manufacturers and pharmacy benefits managers created a “secret spread” between the reported price for diabetes drugs and the “true net” price for such drugs.
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Sexual Assault Lawsuits Pile Up Against Houston Texans Quarterback
Deshaun Watson claims the allegations are meritless. But the 13 women who have sued him say his conduct is part of a disturbing pattern of him preying on vulnerable women.
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Athlete Sex Assault
An anonymous message therapist sued Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson in Harris County court, claiming he exposed himself to her during a session at her home in an attempt to initiate sex.
Read morePolice Shooting
The family of Nicolas Chavez, who died after being shot multiple times by police officers responding to a call about a suicidal person last year, filed a civil suit against the officers, the Houston Police Department and the city of Houston and are seeking $100 million in damages.
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Families of Slain Couple Sue Houston Drug Squad
The families of a couple shot and killed by Houston police after they barged into their home looking for heroin in January 2019 brought federal lawsuits Wednesday night against the city and a narcotics squad.
Read moreWrongful Death
The family of a longtime Houston Rockets basketball scout filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a construction company after he rode his bicycle over an unfinished section of sidewalk, broke his neck and died at the scene.
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Ex-Cop Charged in Election Assault Case Agrees to Stop Investigative Work
A former Houston police captain accused of pulling a gun on a man he thought was involved in a ballot-harvesting scam said he is giving up private investigative work at a bond hearing Friday.
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A former Houston police captain has been arrested on an assault charge, accused of forcing a driver off the road and threatening him at gunpoint while investigating baseless election fraud claims.
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Federal Judge Refuses to Toss Houston Drive-Thru Votes
A bid by Republicans to get more than 127,000 drive-thru votes tossed out as illegal in Texas’ biggest county was rejected Monday by a federal judge who found they lack standing.
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Houston Police Officer Killed in Shooting, Another Wounded
A 41-year veteran of the Houston police department was fatally shot Tuesday while responding to a call involving a domestic dispute.
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Drenched Houston Gears Up for Full Impact of Tropical Storm Beta
Houstonians awoke Tuesday to pouring rain and flooded freeways from Tropical Storm Beta after it made landfall late Monday 100 miles northeast of Corpus Christi with 45 mph winds.
Read moreContamination
In a complaint filed in Harris County, Texas, Union Pacific Railroad Company is accused of knowingly contaminating residential neighborhoods in Houston’s Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhoods, causing plaintiffs to allegedly suffer cancer, death and property damage.
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Lagging Behind in Census Response, Houston Spends More on Outreach
With around half of Houston’s residents yet to fill out the census, the City Council approved $175,000 on Wednesday to pay for billboards, text message, email and phone campaigns to reach holdouts, a move one councilman said is throwing more money down the drain of a failed outreach effort.
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Panel Asked to Reject Class Status in Suit Over Texas Chemical Plant Fire
Arguing before a Fifth Circuit panel Thursday, an attorney for a chemical manufacturer challenged the approval of class certification for 20,000 landowners within a 7-mile radius of the company’s Houston-area plant, which caught fire and exploded in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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Study Finds Uneven Distribution of Air Pollution in Houston
Houston’s air pollution is distributed unequally by race, ethnicity and income level, researchers found, such that nitrogen dioxide pollution is more than one-third worse for low-income nonwhites than it is for high-income whites in Texas’ petrochemical manufacturing hub.
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The Houston Rockets filed a lawsuit against insurer Affiliated FM Insurance Company, claiming that it has failed to pay coverage for loss of income due to the shutdown of the NBA season due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Texas High Court Rejects Bid to Reinstate GOP Convention
The Texas Supreme Court on Monday rejected the state Republican Party’s petition for an order to let it hold its in-person convention this week in Houston despite a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Homeownership Rates Falling Fastest for Black Houstonians
Once a city with ample opportunity for upward mobility, Houston’s welcome mat is fraying with home prices rising beyond the reach of the working class. And the American Dream is slipping fastest from the hands of Black Houstonians.
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Republicans Vow Appeal to Gather in Covid-Hit Houston
The Texas Republican Party said it will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court after a judge denied its request for an order to let it hold its convention in Houston next week.
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