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...Rasa. He said several people refused treatment at the scene and all the wounds were consistent with stabbing. The Harris County Sheriff's Department confirmed at least 14 people were wounded and spokesman Thomas Gilliland said authorities had...
...Hotel taxes would increase from 15 percent to 16.75 percent and car rental taxes from 10 to 15 percent. In Houston, Harris County voters were going against the notion of committing existing hotel and rental car taxes to fund half of a $160 million...
...aware of any chemical being released in the area where the contract employees were working. Investigators from the Harris County medical examiner's office were at the scene. Channelview is about 15 miles east of Houston.
...children and register to vote. His story was fast disappearing until historian Eric Walthers dredged it out of aging Harris County documents. With ink fading, mold spreading and memories dying, Walthers is searching for slaves more than a century...
...within a certain period. The decision, which came on a day of varied court business, favors local governments such as Harris County, Texas, which -- faced with budget constraints -- started the dispute by ordering its sheriff and deputy sheriffs...
...jury during opening statements. ''The defendant in his mind thinks these people were evil and deserved to die.'' Harris County District Attorney John B. Holmes said, and a police technician later testified, that fingerprints on a jewelry box...
...month, when Veridian wired two cars and crashed them near Niagara Falls, N.Y. The emergency services department in Harris County, Texas, which covers Houston and its suburbs, signed on in advance to take the call. When the cars slammed together...
...fraudulent and was foisted upon Howard Marshall II when he was not mentally competent. Before Monday's proceedings, Harris County Probate Judge Mike Wood impaneled a jury of 12 and four alternates to hear testimony that's expected to last for...
...flood watches were posted for parts of the state. In Texas, flood warnings remained in effect for Galveston and Harris counties, including Houston, where rain fell at a rate of 2 to 3 inches per hour at the height of the storm on Tuesday...
...children as God handed them. But in her downtown jail cell, a weary-eyed Andrea Yates faces capital murder charges. Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said Tuesday that he'll decide, at some point in the next three weeks, whether...