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Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94

HOUSTON – George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led vote...

DATE: Nov 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former first lady Barbara Bush dies at age 92

HOUSTON – Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tues...

DATE: Apr 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lawyers push to halt Mexican citizen’s execution in Texas

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Attorneys for a Mexican citizen on death row in Texas for the abduction and slaying of his 16-year-old cousin more than two decades ago looked to the U.S. Supreme Court a...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Inmate executed in Texas for corrections officer’s death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas inmate convicted in the death of a prison guard was executed Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ attempts to halt the punishment. ...

DATE: Oct 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More chaos in Houston as floodwaters rise to roof lines

HOUSTON – Floodwaters reached the roof lines of single-story homes Monday, and people could be heard pleading for help from inside as Harvey kept pouring rain on Houston after a chaotic week...

DATE: Aug 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston

HOUSTON – Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation’s fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overw...

DATE: Aug 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

George H.W. Bush, wife Barbara, recovering from illnesses

HOUSTON – Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, continued to improve Saturday as they recover from illnesses at Houston Methodist Hospital, a family spokesman said. ...

DATE: Jan 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former President George H.W. Bush and wife hospitalized

HOUSTON – Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted Wednesday to the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital with pneumonia, and his wife, Barbara, was hospitalized as a precaution af...

DATE: Jan 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas man gets reprieve hours before scheduled execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A federal appeals court Wednesday stopped the scheduled lethal injection of a former accountant hours before he was to be executed for gunning down his two young daughter...

DATE: Mar 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prison plays hide-and-seek with ex-polygamist sect leader

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Earlier this year, a wife of former polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to visit him at a Texas state prison with a tiny microphone implanted in her hollowed-out wa...

DATE: Mar 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News

High beef prices fueling rustling revival

GIDDINGS, Texas – Record beef prices have led to increases in the number of missing or stolen cattle. The nearly 5,800 livestock reported stolen in Texas last year was the most in...

DATE: Aug 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Remember this Alamo, too

Replica built for ’60 movie losing battle to time, nature

DATE: Jan 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World