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A Harris County justice of the peace has made the unusual move to formally recall, or withdraw, all 12,500 outstanding arrest warrants issued by his court — a decision condemned by critics as “inexplicable” but celebrated by advocates for reform as a step toward addressing a profound injustice. The recall, issued by Steve Duble, justice …
Thousands of residents from the community of La Porte, 30 minutes east of Houston, were evacuated, sheltered in place, or lost power after a pipeline owned by Energy Transfer erupted into flames Monday morning. The fire prompted power outages for about 1,500 CenterPoint customers, the evacuation of the Brooklyn neighborhood area near Spencer Highway and …
Gov. Greg Abbott announced a statewide plan to combat what he called the growing presence of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua at a Houston press conference Monday. The Venezuelan prison gang, which has been involved in extortion, drug trafficking and migrant smuggling, has expanded to South America and the U.S. in recent years. In July, …
Houston Landing launched 15 months ago to create a new kind of newsroom, a new kind of journalism, in Texas’ biggest city. You’ve been with us through the startup phase of our journey, and today marks a new beginning. Now we enter a transformative phase as we center the communities of Houston in everything we …
Houston Landing editor-in-chief Manny García announced that the nonprofit newsroom has hired eight journalists to support a new strategic vision for the organization. The strategic vision is a commitment to service journalism that addresses the city’s challenges and future. The new hires help focus the newsroom around creating change in policy, in law and in …
José dreams of boarding a plane from Caracas, Venezuela, to meet his newborn granddaughter. Maria hopes her son will move to Houston from Nicaragua before his dad starts to lose his memory from early onset Alzheimer’s. Jackson Duvert imagines Houston as a haven for his family from the gang violence and political turmoil upending Haiti. …
Yamini Misra has not given the stretch of sidewalk in front of her new home a lot of consideration. It wasn’t expensive enough to be a budget line item when she and her husband built their house, it was just “lumped into everything.” She did not even know she could have paid a fee to …
An unusually high share of teachers left Houston ISD over the summer, but new data from the district show educators who received low evaluations drove a large share of the exodus. About 83 percent of HISD teachers rated “proficient” or higher on the district’s formal evaluation tool stayed with HISD, while 51 percent of those …
Sentado en una pequeña celda sin ventanas del Centro de Procesamiento de Montgomery, Salvador Bautista estaba dispuesto a rendirse. Bautista fue puesto en confinamiento solitario por razones disciplinarias durante seis semanas, una duración en aislamiento considerada tortura por las Naciones Unidas. “Me están volviendo loco aquí”, escribió en español en una carta enviada desde su …
During the pandemic, Jamie Wright’s hair stylist noticed red welts on her neck and arms. Wright had been abused just before her appointment. If you need help Remember, there are resources to help. If you’re in immediate danger, call 911. Wright couldn’t hide it any longer. She finally confided to her stylist that her then-partner …
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