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U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 24, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Authorities are looking for five suspects in connection with the shooting death over the weekend of a Houston, Texas, doctor, police said Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 25, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Houston, Texas, had a record high temperature Wednesday as a heat wave continues to grip the nation's midsection, the National Weather Service said Thursday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Local 6 -- A federal judge in Houston has ordered a year and a-half in prison for a now-former postal clerk in a DVD-by-mail theft investigation. Authorities accused 53-year-old Anthony Zuniga of Houston of swiping thousands of movies from the mail system. Zun.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 1:13am neoform

FOX News -- A woman blames the devil and not her husband for severely burning their infant daughter after the 2-month-old was put in a microwave, a Houston television station reported. Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Ma.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 11:18am mrmdc

MSNBC -- A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 31, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day attended an Islamic "Knowledge Fest" in Houston, Texas, in 2008, according to one of the organizers of the event... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 1, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A Texas inmate escaped from a prison van near Houston after pulling a gun on two guards who were transporting him between prisons, according to a Texas prison statement Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- An American Airlines flight from Orlando, Fla., to Dallas-Fort Worth was diverted to Houston on Saturday night after a passenger tried to open an emergency door. The passenger was unable to open the door and no one was injured. The passenger, a woma.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- In Erin's footsteps Last month, at least six deaths were blamed on Tropical Storm Erin, which dropped nearly a foot of rain in parts of San Antonio, Houston and the Texas Hill Country. In 2001, slow-moving Tropical Storm Allison soaked Houston, dump.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 5, 2007 @ 10:59am acfo

around-the-world1.blogspot.com -- The Houston Museum of Natural Science wants to buy 1,000 cockroaches which grow to 2 inches long, can fly and thrive in the city's sub-tropical climate.Museum is offering 25 cents per cockroach,as it seeks to populate a new insect exhibit alongside its Co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A Houston museum is paying cash for live cockroaches as it seeks to populate a new exhibit. The 25-cent-per-bug offer comes from the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The center is trying to secure 1,000 live cockroaches for an updated insect displ.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 10:04pm neoform

FOX News -- One of three people killed in a Houston office building fire planned to testify today against a man charged with sexually assaulting her daughter. Jeanette Hargrove of Friendswood died yesterday when fire ravaged her fifth-floor office of the Texas Dep.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 11:07pm neoform

CNN -- Three people were killed and at least seven were injured Wednesday in a four-alarm fire at an office building in northeast Houston, authorities said. The blaze broke out at 5:16 p.m. (6:16 p.m. ET) on the top two floors of the six-story building, accor.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 4:25pm mrmdc

Houston Chronicle -- The worst-case scenario for a large tornado striking Houston makes a hurricane look like high surf. Spinning at 225 mph, the tornado touches down in southwest Houston, skirting the Astrodome and barreling through parts of River Oaks, Montrose and the H.. Read More