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By the time Eagle Otome's bow cut across the middle of the Sabine-Neches Waterway, the Dixie Vengeance's leading barge had nowhere to go but straight into the tanker's massive orange hull, the towboat captain testified Wednesday.

A former Marine accused in the stabbing death of a Rice University basketball player during a 2007 fight outside a College Station bar has been found not guilty.

Philip Crabtree's kids played hooky on Wednesday to go to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

On the table are standards for social studies in Texas.

A part-time worker at Bear Creek Assistance Ministries was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for selling community service hours to Harris County probationers.

Houston received more than half of $6.8 million in cancer prevention grants announced in Austin Wednesday, the second round of the state's $3 billion assault on cancer.

Centex Homes will offer to buy back 27 homes in a Northwest Side neighborhood and plans to spend $4 million to $5 million to rebuild a massive retaining wall that collapsed in January.

A federal judge has dismissed an excessive force lawsuit against Harris County by the family of a Houston truck driver who died two days after sheriff's deputies used a Taser to subdue him.

Complaints from neighbors about noises and other nuisances created by the Bayport Container Terminal have finally paid off — and handsomely.

The murder trial of David Earl Brown, 58, may still continue.

Mayor Annise Parker raised the possibility of furloughs and layoffs for city employees for the first time Wednesday, saying the city's dire budget outlook will require City Council to consider all available options for closing roughly $110 million in budget gaps during the next two years.

Annise Parker said she isn't confident the embattled Metro can secure financing to build the University, Uptown rail lines.

Doc is a big orangutan with an outsized personality. But put a paintbrush in his hand, and the blustering brute becomes a soulful, sensitive artist. Not so Tucker the elephant.

A team of university researchers has concluded there's likely a link between a series of small earthquakes at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and an injection well used to get rid of wastewater from natural gas drilling. Chesapeake Energy, which owns the injection well in question, disputed that conclusion.

Surviving members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program — including 31 from Texas — were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal for their pioneering work during World War II.

The means of protecting the upper Texas Gulf Coast from destructive storm surges will probably fall somewhere between a massive “Ike Dike” and banning development on barrier islands like Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula, according to one of the originators of a six-county commission that will study the problem.

Nearly 40 years after being diagnosed with a genetic disorder as a teenager, a local doctor leads the effort to uncover its causes and opens the door to the future of medicine in the process.

The Texas Education Agency announced Wednesday that it has revoked the accreditation of the Kendleton Independent School District, a final straw expected to lead to closure for good this July.

Dianne Bynum, former executive director of the March of Dimes Texas Gulf Coast Chapter and current board president of the Harris County Protective Services for Children and Adults, has died of pancreatic cancer. She was 73.

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