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Developer Convicted for “kill switch” Code Activated Upon his Termination
ArsTechnica - Mon Mar 10, 2025
A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer's network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. More»

Democratic US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his Wife are Indicted over Ties to Azerbaijan
Yahoo! News - Sat May 4, 2024
WASHINGTON — Democratic US Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a US Department of Justice probe into the couple's ties to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. More»

Texas Veteran Dies of Treatable Pancreatitis While Waiting for Hospital Bed
Daily Mail - Fri Aug 27, 2021
A US Army veteran died of a treatable illness while waiting for a hospital bed as doctors struggled to find a facility that would accept him. More»

ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dies at 72
Variety - Wed Jul 28, 2021
Joseph “Dusty” Hill, ZZ Top’s bassist for more than 50 years, has died, the group’s longtime rep confirmed. More»

Deadly Microbe Water Warning Lifted for All But 1 Texas City
NBC New York - Sat Sep 26, 2020
Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe. More»

Hammer-wielding woman arrested after going on racist tirade
KPRC-TV - Wed May 27, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas - A couple visiting Houston from New Orleans say they were confronted by a woman with a hammer because she apparently mistook them as being Mexican citizens. More»

Explosion at Exxon Oil Refinery in Houston
ABC News - Wed Jul 31, 2019
An explosion and fire at an Exxon Mobil oil refinery in Texas on Wednesday left 37 people with minor injuries, in the latest of a series of petrochemical industry blazes this year in the Houston area. More»

US energy department rebrands gas 'molecules of freedom'
BBC - Thu May 30, 2019
US energy officials appeared to rebrand natural gas produced in the country as "freedom gas", in a statement announcing an increase in exports. More»

‘Only The Lord God Almighty Is In Control’: Texas Lawmaker Attacks Noted Pediatrician, Calls Vaccines ‘Sorcery’
Raw Story - Thu May 9, 2019
An anti-vaccine Texas Republican state lawmaker attacked a distinguished medical doctor, the dean and chief of pediatric medicine at Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, over vaccines this week. More»

11-year-old asylum seeker ordered to return to El Salvador without family
WSB-TV - Fri Apr 12, 2019
HOUSTON, Texas - An immigration court in Texas has ordered an 11-year-old girl to be deported to El Salvador alone, and now her family is fighting to have the order suspended. More»

National Guard called into Houston after chemical fire, residents told to stay inside
NBC News - Thu Mar 21, 2019
HOUSTON, Texas - National Guard troops have been called in and residents were told to stay inside after elevated levels of benzene were detected early Thursday near a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility that caught fire this week. More»

Texas chemical plant fire keeps burning. Some health officials are not convinced that it's safe
CNN - Tue Mar 19, 2019
The fierce fire sending towering black clouds into the air near suburban Houston intensified overnight because of a temporary dip in water pressure and resources, according to the owners of the chemical plant where the blaze is burning. More»

Texas pastor urges followers to stone a 'rebellious' student to death
Raw Story - Mon Jan 21, 2019
In a YouTube clip unearthed by the Friendly Atheist, a Texas pastor is seen exhorting his flock that the best way to control "rebellious " teens is to take one and stone him or her as a warning to other obstreperous youths. More»

Doctor who raped heavily sedated patient will serve no prison time
USA Today - Sun Sep 30, 2018
A former Texas doctor who raped a heavily sedated patient won't serve prison time after he was found guilty of the crime Thursday. More»

Man Killed by FBI Agent in Houston Raid Was Kidnap Victim
NBC New York - Thu Jan 25, 2018
An FBI agent fatally shot the victim of a kidnapping during a raid early Thursday at a Houston home, authorities said. More»

John Young, one of the most legendary astronauts in history, has died
Associated Press - Sat Jan 6, 2018
Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, according to a statement from NASA. More»

Chemical Plant Near Houston Warns It's About To Explode
Huffington Post - Wed Aug 30, 2017
Flooding swamped backup generators, and volatile chemicals are getting warm enough to ignite. "There's no way to prevent it," the CEO said. More»

Major dam overflows for first time as more rain dumps onto flood-weary Texas
Los Angeles Times - Mon Aug 28, 2017
Tropical Storm Harvey continued to deluge southeastern Texas with rain and surging floodwater Tuesday, leaving at least 10 people dead and thousands in shelters as it slowly crept toward Louisiana. More»

Off-duty cop shot woman in the head because she honked at him
Raw Story - Sat Nov 29, 2014
A Houston woman was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer after she honked at him for cutting her off, KHOU 11 reports. More»

In Bid to Cut Costs at Some Texas Prisons, Lunch Will Not Be Served on Weekends
New York Times - Thu Oct 20, 2011
HOUSTON, Texas - Texas prison officials last month ended the decades-old practice of serving last meals to inmates about to be executed after one man ordered an elaborate feast of hamburgers, pizza and chicken-fried steaks that he did not eat. More»

With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant
New York Times - Mon Aug 30, 2010
TEXAS CITY, Texas - While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems. More»

Hurricane destroyed Galveston in 1900
CNN - Thu Sep 11, 2008
The worst weather disaster in American history took place in Galveston, Texas, in 1900 when a hurricane estimated as a Category 4 intensity blew ashore, killing thousands of residents and obliterating the town. More»

Legal help too slow in Texas arrest, high court says
Associated Press - Sun Jun 22, 2008
HOUSTON, Texas - A man whose life was turned upside-down by a wrongful arrest and weeks in jail should have been given access to a lawyer sooner so he could have shown the arrest was erroneous, the US Supreme Court decided Monday. More»

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
Associated Press - Tue May 13, 2008
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. More»

HPD: Carnaby flashed CIA card before deadly chase
Houston Chronicle - Sun May 4, 2008
The man Houston police fatally shot after an hourlong chase Tuesday had shown a card identifying him as a CIA employee to officers who stopped him earlier for speeding, authorities said Wednesday. More»

Man killed by police may have been CIA
KPRC-TV - Tue Apr 29, 2008
HOUSTON - Police are trying to verify whether a man officers shot and killed after a chase was a CIA agent," KPRC Local 2 reported on Wednesday. More»

Did UFO encounter cost woman her life?
McDowell News - Thu Dec 13, 2007
Could a UFO sighting not only be frightening but deadly as well? Some researchers into the strange phenomenon think so and hold up Betty Cash's incredible story as an example. More»

Toxic gas pervasive in FEMA units, tests show
MSNBC - Sun Nov 11, 2007
More than two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered the Mississippi Gulf Coast, private tests of FEMA travel trailers and mobile homes provided to storm victims indicate that high levels of formaldehyde gas in the units is much more widespread than the government has acknowledged. More»

Barbara Bush: Hurricane 'working well' for refugees
Daily Mail - Tue Sep 6, 2005
Former First Lady Barbara Bush has come under fire from hundreds of homeless Hurricane Katrina evacuees who lost everything. More»

Grand Jurors Clear Halliburton Protesters
KPRC-TV - Wed Jun 22, 2005
HOUSTON, Texas - Three men who were arrested during a protest at Halliburton's shareholders meeting were cleared by a Harris County grand jury Wednesday, Local 2 reported. More»

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