Cleaning Begins For Famed Houston Astrodome
Work has begun to clean the exterior of Houston's famed Astrodome. Crews are expected to finish their power-wash cleaning of the vacant venue by January.
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Work has begun to clean the exterior of Houston's famed Astrodome. Crews are expected to finish their power-wash cleaning of the vacant venue by January.
Houston's historic Astrodome is set to receive a scrubbing. The Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation voted Wednesday to wash the exterior of the vacant structure.
A Texas school district police officer has been charged with misdemeanor official oppression after he was accused of demanding to smell the socks and underwear of a woman he had stopped.
Harris County's top executive plans to reveal to the public his proposal for the future use of the Houston Astrodome.
Health officials in Houston believe they've trapped a mosquito carrying a virus known as chikungunya, raising the possibility of people becoming infected locally.
When it comes to mosquitoes the main concern for North Texans lately has been West Nile Virus. Now health officials in Houston believe they've trapped a mosquito carrying a virus known as chikungunya.
Mourners released balloons and heard from the sole survivor of the Houston area shooting that killed her 5 family members.
A man accused of killing six members of his ex-wife's family, including four children, collapsed in court Friday as a prosecutor recited the charges against him.
A man charged with killing four children and their parents was dressed as a delivery man when he forced his way into the family's suburban Houston home and held the kids at gunpoint until their parents arrived, police said Thursday.
A Texas jury has returned a 27-year prison sentence for a 39-year-old man who at one time taped an interview with "Dr. Phil" claiming he didn't kill his girlfriend.
A 32-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison after a Harris County jury found her guilty of capital murder for burying her infant son in mud near a bayou, smothering the 2-month-old.
Deputies in the Woodland Heights area of Houston are searching for a man who has repeatedly used the bathroom in several yards at night.
Harris County authorities are trying to determine why a man walked through a suburban Houston neighborhood and punctured the tires of dozens of cars.
A Texas pediatric nurse has been arrested for feeding her own daughter such a dangerous amount of salt that the child had to be hospitalized.
Officials say a confrontation between two groups of people over the ending of a movie turned deadly in the parking lot of the Houston area theater.
A grand jury will have to determine whether a Texas man who killed a 17-year-old boy in his teenage daughter's bedroom knew he was shooting the girl's guest — or thought he was shooting an intruder.
Prosecutors say two teenage boys were making a deal with the devil when they sexually assaulted then killed a 15-year-old Texas girl.
Investigators say a retired Harris County sheriff's deputy has been arrested for sexually assaulting a young girl over several years.
The transformation of Houston's Astrodome begins next week when work crews prepare to demolish exterior portions of the landmark stadium.
The parents of of two young boy's say they feel "heartbroken" and "disrespected" after being kicked out of an Applebee's in Texas, over their children's behavior.
The fate of a plan to renovate the Houston Astrodome, an iconic stadium that's fallen into disrepair since it was shuttered four years ago, might be in the hands of voters this fall.
A plan to turn the iconic but deteriorating Houston Astrodome into a giant convention center and exhibition space is to be presented to Harris County leaders.
A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college is on suicide watch and will stay in jail as he undergoes a psychological evaluation, his attorney said Thursday.
A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a suburban Houston community college chose his victims at random, authorities said Wednesday, going from one floor to another as he used a razor utility knife to slice people in the neck and face.
A 34-year-old Houston area man was arrested after he was linked to a string of residential burglaries that stretched from Texas to Las Vegas, NV.
