Democrat Jon Rosenthal won the Texas Railroad Commissioner race, CBS News projects, defeating Republican Bo French after the GOP candidate refused to reconsider his racist, anti-Muslim and antisemitic comments. With about 93% of votes counted, Rosenthal led French 52.5% to 45.6%. The powerful Texas railroad commissioner does not deal with railroads, but instead regulates the…
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been charged in Houston with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly hitting a man with his car. Jason Allen reports. Source link
It began with a phone call. A grassroots write-in campaign had been launched weeks before Tuesday’s midterm election in an effort to keep longtime Alabama Sheriff Jay Jones in office. Jones was ousted in May by about 300 votes in a bitterly fought Republican primary in Lee County by a former sheriff’s deputy, Cameron Hunt. …
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
Oil giant ConocoPhillips is planning to lay off up to a quarter of its workforce, amounting to thousands of jobs, as part of broader efforts by the company to cut costs. A spokesperson for ConocoPhillips confirmed the layoffs on Wednesday, noting that 20% to 25% of the company’s employees and contractors would be impacted worldwide….
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was indicted on a felony for allegedly hitting a man with a vehicle earlier this month, a Texas district attorney announced Friday. Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said ICE Officer Mario Alberto Morales was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of aggravated assault with a…
Two astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station Thursday for the first of two spacewalks, one week apart, to install a final pair of roll-out solar blankets that will complete a complex, years-long upgrade of the lab’s aging power system. Floating in the station’s Quest airlock, NASA’s Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua…
Firefighters battle airport blaze in Houston; High tides break records. Source link
A fire broke out at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Tuesday, with smoke rising from Terminal C. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source link
The lake country straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border has a quiet, majestic beauty. But in September 2022, that vast landscape seemed to have swallowed up Mike Harding, a California transplant who disappeared without a trace. JULIE HARDING (phone call): Hi Captain, this is Julie Harding with the California Highway Patrol … Mike’s wife Julie Harding, a…
