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HOUSTON (AP) — Some Gulf Coast residents ripped up soggy carpeting, cut out sheet rock from walls marked by the height floodwaters had reached and sorted through destroyed clothes and other belongings on Monday, 10 days after Harvey swept onto land and caused billions of dollars in damage. Houston’s mayor insisted that America’s fourth-largest city […]
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently defended Colin Kaepernick, saying that he "should be on a [NFL] roster right now."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce that he will end protections for young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children — but with a six-month delay. That’s according to two people familiar with the decision. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to discuss the […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities carried out a controlled burn Sunday at a chemical plant damaged by Harvey, sending small flames and gray smoke into the sky, after saying the highly unstable compounds that had caused previous explosions needed to be neutralized. Small flames burning in charred structures were seen, with a limited amount of the […]
Alhough authorities aren’t feeling one thousand percent positive that Fredrick Demond Scott, 22, committed all of the murders in the mysterious Indian Creek homicides, he has been charged with two of the killings after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes and surveillance video actually showed him in this latest one. According to what he told police, the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Smoke filled the sky and ash rained down across Los Angeles on Sunday from a wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history — one of several blazes that sent thousands fleeing homes across the U.S. West during a blistering holiday weekend heat wave. In Oregon, crews rescued […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is preparing an initial $5.9 billion package in Harvey aid, a first down payment to ensure recovery efforts over the next few weeks are adequately funded. The Trump proposal, which is being finalized pending White House consultations with key Republicans, is likely to be just a fraction of an […]
For some people, the only luck is bad luck. That may be the case for would-be bar burglary suspects Joseph McInniss and Tyree McCoy. The two went to rob a Baltimore bar only to find out it was crawling with cops. Not only was there a precinct across the street, at the time of the […]
UPDATE: The officer who was caught on tape saying police only kill Black people will be fired. On Thursday, Cobb County police Chief Mike Register told news reps that he has begun process to eliminate Lieutenant Greg Abbott from the force As we previously reported, via dashcam video from July 2016 a white woman can be heard telling Abbott she was […]
. Authorities are raising Harvey’s death toll to 39 almost a week after the storm slammed into the Texas coast. Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences spokeswoman Tricia Bentley said Thursday night that the office has confirmed seven more storm-related deaths. Harris County is home to Houston and has so far accounted for 25 deaths […]
A man dressed as Spider-Man showed up at Houston’s George R. Brown Emergency Center on Tuesday, where thousands have sought shelter from Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters. Spectrum News Austin’s Stef Manisero tweeted footage of a person dressed as Spider-Man handing out stickers to kids throughout the center on Tuesday. The smiles on the children’s faces say […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Harvey’s devastation is testing two Texas leaders whose personal styles are as divergent as their politics. Houston Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner is a former longtime state lawmaker who made a career of impassioned defenses of liberal legislation that had no hope of passing the GOP-controlled Legislature. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sets […]
