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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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.
Read moreThe 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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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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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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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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The Texas Republican Party sued Houston’s Democratic mayor Thursday, claiming he improperly cited the Covid-19 pandemic as an act of God as grounds to cancel the party’s convention.
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The Texas Republican Party said Wednesday it is weighing its legal options after Houston officials canceled the party’s biennial convention due to concerns about the coronavirus.
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Fallout from a bungled Houston police raid that left a married couple dead deepened Wednesday as prosecutors charged several retired officers with felony records tampering, and the police department released an audit detailing corruption that led to the raid.
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Body cameras and qualified immunity dominated the discussion at a police reform roundtable Friday in Houston, in which Republican U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz found common ground with the city’s Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner.
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It’s been a busy week for statues in Houston. One day after a vandal painted a statue of Christopher Columbus red, Mayor Sylvester Turner said two Confederate statues will be moved, one to an African American museum.
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A horse-drawn carriage led the golden casket of 46-year-old Houston native George Floyd to his final resting place Tuesday afternoon as thousands of mourners paid final respects to a man whose last words, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,” have become a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement and catalyst for police reforms nationwide
Read moreAn estimated 10,000 people came out to pay their respects to Floyd at the Fountain of Praise church in Houston, his hometown.
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A counterfeit $20 bill allegedly triggered the chain of events leading to George Floyd’s death. Days later, more than $20 million has been donated to his family and to charities in his honor and the outpouring is growing by the minute.
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No punches were thrown, rocks hurled at police, or store windows broken at a rally for George Floyd in his hometown of Houston on Tuesday, as the thousands who came out abided by his family’s plea for no violence.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas upheld a ruling against the City of Houston in a suit brought by the mother of a woman killed in a high-profile botched drug raid in 2019, known as the “Harding Street” raid. The lower court properly denied the city’s plea to the jurisdiction and the woman may continue to pursue her efforts to depose Houston police officials.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden held a rally at a historic black college in Houston on Monday, reinforcing his ties to a core constituency that revived his campaign ahead of crucial Super Tuesday primary elections.
Read moreHouston courts canceled their Friday dockets, schools are closed and the city is under a boil-water notice after an 8-foot water main burst Thursday and firefighters sent boats to rescue drivers stranded on a flooded freeway.
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Plagued by a spate of plant explosions and fires, Texas petrochemical producers stepped into unchartered waters in a Houston courtroom Thursday with state prosecutors urging jurors to send a CEO to prison for a chemical meltdown that damaged the lungs of two sheriff’s deputies.
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A Houston teachers union, making claims of racial discrimination, asked a federal judge Tuesday to block the Texas Education Agency from replacing their school district’s elected board of trustees with a handpicked board of managers.
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