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As coronavirus cases spike in Texas, an emergency room physician in Houston said starting her shift every day is like going to war. Dr. Gina Blocker said her hospital is seeing young people with serious symptoms as well as a disproportionate number of patients of color.

The daughter of comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley said she’s “happy to be alive” and is feeling okay after being shot multiple times over the weekend in Houston.

Rickey Smiley’s 19-year-old daughter is recovering after being shot multiple times in Houston, Texas, Sunday night.

George Floyd’s body arrived at a Houston church Tuesday for a private funeral, to be followed by burial, capping six days of mourning for the black man whose death inspired a global reckoning over police brutality and racial injustice.

Hundreds of mourners visited the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, Texas, to pay their respects at the funeral of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25. Floyd’s death has sparked weeks of protests against police brutality in cities around the world.

George Floyd’s passing is being memorialized by an iconic street artist who’s already painted beloved street murals of Barack and Michelle Obama along a famous Houston breakfast spot dubbed “The Breakfast Klub.”

Hundreds of mourners lined up outside a church in George Floyd’s native Houston for a final public viewing Monday as his death two weeks ago at the hands of police continued whipping protesters, leaders and cities around the world into action over demands to address racial injustice and police brutality.

Hundreds of people lined up outside a church in Houston to pay respects to George Floyd. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who also paid his respects, said “George Floyd is going to change the arc of the future of the United States.”

The mayor of Houston said Saturday that the body of George Floyd, whose death after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee on his neck during an arrest has sparked protests across the U.S, will be returning to the city where he grew up.

A woman who authorities say fatally beat her wife with a wine chiller inside their southern New Jersey apartment last weekend has been captured in Texas.

City health officials and Rice University scientists have begun testing Houston wastewater samples for COVID-19, a process they hope will reveal the true spread of the new coronavirus as clinical testing continues to lag.

A Houston police helicopter crashed early Saturday, killing one of the two officers on board and critically injuring the other, officials said. A pilot and tactical flight officer were aboard a police helicopter when it crashed at an apartment complex around 2 a.m. They were flown to a hospital where the tactical flight officer died, police Chief Art Acevedo said…

A tiger captured after being spotted roaming a residential neighborhood in a Southeast Texas city has been sent to an animal sanctuary.

The last known living 9/11 search dog has died in a Houston suburb at age 16.

Workers at shelters in the Houston area say some animals respond to a variety of spoken languages

A sheriff in Southeast Texas says seven people were injured after a shooting at a Houston flea market that was holding a dance.

A Texas man saved his neighbor’s dog after its leash was caught in an elevator. The incident was caught on a surveillance camera.

A massive explosion Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston, leaving at least two people dead, damaging nearby buildings and homes and rousing frightened residents from their sleep miles away, authorities said. The explosion happened about 4:30 a.m. inside a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing, which makes valves and provides thermal-spray coatings for equipment in various industries, authorities said. The…

A Texas high school student is fighting for his right to keep his dreadlocks. Barbers Hill High School student Deandre Arnold was sent to in-school suspension and told he couldn’t walk during graduation until his dreadlocks are cut short to meet the district’s revised policy, which changed after Christmas break.

Surveillance video shows the moment a gunman climbed through a McDonald’s drive thru window in Houston on Jan. 6.