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No Kings protest underway in Houston. Police estimate 1,300 but many more are filing in as speakers take the stage
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is late to his own press conference on mass transit because he’s stuck in Houston traffic, I’m told
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.@redbullracing unveils its F1 slab on display in downtown Houston through Saturday
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UPDATE: Teenager who crashed into a group of cyclists in Waller County while trying to “roll coal” on them is in police custody facing six felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon - one charge for each of the cyclists who were hit
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UPDATE: Robert Glenn, seen here using his two-ton Jeep to target a cyclist pedaling home from work, is now charged with misdemeanor reckless driving. Police say Glenn was mad the cyclist was in the roadway
Story: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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Update: It's been three days since a 16-year-old in a pickup plowed over six cyclists in Waller, just outside Houston. Cops interviewed the teen and let him go from the scene. The latest from Waller PD? It's still under investigation
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Houston police are recording decibel levels outside @tedcruz’s home after protesters gathered calling for his resignation
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New bodycam footage shows a Houston cop was driving 80+ mph Dec. 4 before mounting a curb and killing 62-year-old Michael Wayne Jackson, who was on the sidewalk heading to his barber
Key takeaways: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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RIP Shelley Duvall, a native Houstonian who made her film debut in 1970 portraying an Astrodome tour guide
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The scene in downtown Houston where @screwstonafc is protecting a family drag show against anti-LGBTQ disrupters led by Kelly Neidert. Neidert and her group are nowhere to be found. Demonstration is set to start at noon
Background: chron.com/news/houston-texas… via @MurneyMichael
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Violence erupts during a Black Lives Matter protest over #GeorgeFloyd's death as BLM Houston founder @AshtonPWoods appears to punch a man yelling at him. Now, protestors are attempting to rush I-45 near downtown #Houston
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Haley Carter, a former Marine, steps down as July 4 parade grand marshal of Friendswood outside Houston. She and her family received threats of violence after @JesseKellyDC combed her Facebook and posted a photo of her son to Twitter
Story: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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The ghost bike for Marjorie Corcoran went missing last week, so I thought I'd write about the effort to get it replaced. It turns out replacing stolen and missing ghost bikes in Houston is almost as daunting of task as installing them in the first place
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Deer Park police, after seeing this video of a Jeep driver barreling the wrong-way toward a cyclist in an apparent fit of road rage, determined this was a case of "he said, she said"
More: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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Multiple protests are planned outside the @NRA annual meeting in Houston on Friday, where Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz and several other prominent Republicans are slated to speak days after a teen massacred 21 in Uvalde. Here’s all you need to know
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🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴 Latest on the teen who ran over 6 cyclists in Waller
Attorney Charlie Thomas: "... it's caused us to raise an eyebrow as to whether or not this (investigation) is being done fully on the up and up"
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Happy 5 year anniversary to this. During the height of the bathroom bill debate in Texas, a Republican city council member in Conroe accidentally locked himself in the women's restroom at a gas station. He ripped off the sign once he saw me recording
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This is that same group moments earlier on Gray near Hamilton streets in downtown Houston *language warning*
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New: The number of people dead in Houston traffic crashes outnumbered the city’s homicides in the first half of 2024.
Houston homicides are on track to reach a five-year low while fatal crashes could reach a five-year high by year’s end
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You might see more of these around Houston soon. Just don’t expect any mushrooms inside
A Super Mario Bros. Mystery Box has popped up in Houston.
What's inside?
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First of at least two abortion rights rallies in downtown Houston happening across from City Hall over the #RoeOverturned draft opinion. @RepFletcher is here and urged the Senate to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act to codify Roe
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The convention in Houston, so soon after the Uvalde massacre, echoes the timeline in 1999 when the @NRA held its convention in Denver a month after the Columbine tragedy
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Spoke with the victim's brother in the days following the collision, and re-watching this footage puts his comments into a new light:
"It looks like to me, maybe the guys couldn't drive that well. They just weren't ready."
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Proud Boys and Kelly Neidert’s Protect Texas Kids are in Katy, Texas, protesting a drag bingo fundraiser at First Christian Church. PB and Houston antifascists just clashed. Heavy police presence dividing the two groups now
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Video is edited slightly to avoid showing the impact and Jackson's body. The officer seen in the end of the video is Anthony Aranda, Hernandez' partner who was in the passenger seat. His bodycam fell off after the crash. Both are 25 with <5 years on the force
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Houston PD is setting up additional barriers between the crowds. Scores more people here to protect the drag show than protesting it
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Breaking Texas bullet train news: @Amtrak and @TexasCentral just announced a new partnership, reviving hopes for a Houston-to-Dallas high-speed rail
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Counter-protest to Kelly Neidert and a group of Nazis now stretches the block. This is happening on Prairie between Main and Fannin in downtown Houston
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Officer Orlando Hernandez, who was driving, remains on active duty. The @HarrisCountyDAO plans to present the case to a grand jury but has yet to do so
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The haters who say Houston doesn’t have seasons seem to be awfully quiet this morning
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A Houston mother ushering her three children across the street after getting off a @METROHouston bus was hit and critically injured by a @houstonpolice officer on Antoine Drive near Golden Forest Drive last night
She later died at the hospital, police confirmed today
ALT A bus stop on Antoine Drive near Golden Forest Drive
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Not much has changed in the last 30 minutes or so. Hamburger Mary’s, which is hosting the drag show, is blasting ABBA
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Scoop: A draft report by @HouPublicWorks engineers obtained by @axios shows that speeds, crashes and crash severity all decreased along 11th Street after bike lanes were installed
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Getting real "Facebook is a public business" vibes from this bar rep who clearly doesn't understand how the law works
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BREAKING: Public health disaster declared in Texas for first time in 119 years houstonchronicle.com/news/ho… via @nkhensley #hounews #coronavirus #COVID19
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Houston Police Department Sgt. Christopher Brewster (11H01E) is officially off duty.
"Godspeed, Sgt. Brewster. We have the watch from here."
chron.com/news/houston-texas… #hounews #RIPSgtBrewster @houstonpolice @HPOUTX
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NEW: The @houstonpolice cop seen here speeding onto a Sunnyside sidewalk to avoid traffic, killing 62-year-old Michael Wayne Jackson in December 2021 will not face criminal charges, a grand jury decided
Details: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
New bodycam footage shows a Houston cop was driving 80+ mph Dec. 4 before mounting a curb and killing 62-year-old Michael Wayne Jackson, who was on the sidewalk heading to his barber
Key takeaways: chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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The group of Nazis appear to be leaving the protest, sporting for the first time today a flag with a swastika. Proud Boys and Patriot Front have also left
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"Vape City is all panic"
The Houston-based vape shop is the latest to take on the state's Delta 8 ban, filing for a TRO against @TexasDSHS over Delta 8 being listed as a controlled substance. It's the latest in an explosive legal saga over the ban
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All @METROHouston services will be free of charge tomorrow to help alleviate congestion for the @astros parade in downtown. 1M+ fans expected to turnout
Mayor Sylvester Turner: "Metro would be good, or riding bicycles or walking."
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Downtown Houston is a whopping 26% parking lot, according to @Parking_Reform
Story: axios.com/local/houston/2023…
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Tempers flare during the TEA’s first community meeting on the Houston ISD takeover since the takeover was announced last week
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Kelly Neidert appears to be trying to distance herself from the Nazis that joined her group
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This is today in downtown Houston. @Ariana_noGrande will be on the ground covering for @chron
Multiple protests are planned outside the @NRA annual meeting in Houston on Friday, where Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz and several other prominent Republicans are slated to speak days after a teen massacred 21 in Uvalde. Here’s all you need to know
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People are slowly filtering out - from both sides - after the drag show ended. Kelly Neidert and a few in her company are still here. Hamburger Mary’s invited counter-protesters inside for a free NA drink
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There’s a person open carrying around Discovery Green. @houstonpolice officer said no problem as long as he doesn’t point it at someone
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Never been in this position before. I was out covering the SW Houston police shooting when nearby apartments caught fire. Helped an officer go door-to-door to alert residents. Thankfully no one was hurt and the apartment was vacant #hounews chron.com/news/houston-texas…
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🚲 Riding in #houston over the last three months. Red lights and right-of-way mean nothing in this city
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Officers rushing along South Loop to get to the scene and assist. Police fighting traffic to get there #hounews
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Update: @houstonpolice now say the victim was a 2-year-old in a stroller being pushed by his grandmother crossing West Fuqua in the crosswalk. The 25-year-old driver of a Chevy Silverado hit them both. Police detained him and then let him go
.@houstonpolice is reporting a deadly auto-pedestrian crash at the intersection of West Fuqua Street and Bathurst Drive around 10:30am today
Details are scarce as the investigation unfolds
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Police telling supporters to stay on the sidewalk after a handful walked into the street confronting Neidert’s group
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"Still in Texas. Worst drivers so far."
This is what Kent Wosepka posted to @Strava the day before a driver crashed into a group of cyclists in Liberty County this past Saturday, killing him and severely injuring two others. My latest from @chron:
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I’m okay, healthy and home now. Took a nasty spill on my bike along Brays Bayou this morning after hitting a divot in the path. I slammed into the blacktop face-first. I lamented to the ER nurses about being a stereotype, but please consider wearing a helmet
ALT Jay sits in a hospital bed wearing a head bandage and looking at his phone.
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My heart goes out to Jason Knox’s wife and kids.
Jason was kind enough to let me fulfill a lifelong dream and ride with him in his Oilers blue 1996 Chevrolet Caprice during the Thanksgiving Day parade in 2018 #hounews
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Folks moved over to City Hall where @HoustonDSA and @SocialistAlt are hosting another rally
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One of Neidert’s supporters tried to have words with counter protesters but @houstonpolice ushered him away
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Here’s what Mayor Whitmire and his public works director said today about the removal of the Austin Street bike lane
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He’s arrived, accompanied by @JacksonLeeTX18 and @AirportsHouston Executive Director Mario Diaz
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NEW: Woman shoots masturbating bicyclist trying to break into her home in SE Houston, police say #hounews
STORY: chrn.cl/2MnSQma
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Views from downtown Houston where Vice President @KamalaHarris is set to deliver the keynote speech to @AFTunion delegates
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@houstonpolice set up these fences in an effort to keep the sides separate. Cops tell me they’ll “do our best” to keep them apart. Plenty of media behind the fence
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Fun fact about Minute Maid Park: you can see where all the home runs have dinged these in-park billboards
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Just saw this lady hit a cyclist on Lamar and Caroline before taking off. Rider fell over but is okay, can’t say the same for his rim. He was in the bike lane and she was exiting a building
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Hi Elijah, don’t take it from me that there were Nazis in the crowd. Take it from the Nazis in the crowd
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Houston City Council will vote next week on selling a portion of the White Oak Bayou trail to @TxDOT for its I-45 expansion project
@whitmire_john tried to get it thru this week, but the vote was delayed by @MarioforHouston @AbbieKamin @plummer4hou and @TwilaDCarter
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