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Texas man gets 40 years in stand-your-ground case
Retired Texas firefighter Raul Rodriguez, armed with a handgun and video camera, had claimed he was standing his ground and had no choice but to use ...
Drexler denies he gave quotes about Magic in book
Clyde Drexler denied Wednesday making negative statements attributed to him about Magic Johnson in an upcoming book about the Dream Team. In Jack ...
Davis first to Hornets, then what in NBA draft?
Once Anthony Davis slips on a Hornets hat above basketball's most celebrated eyebrow Thursday night, the NBA draft really starts. Davis will head to ...
Sons testify for Texas stand-your-ground convict
Relatives of a man who claimed Texas' version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor after an argument about a noisy party ...
Houston man charged with vandalizing 1929 Picasso
Houston police are searching for a man now charged with vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act that was caught on video. Uriel Landeros ...
Obama faces growing GOP super PAC financial power
The national campaigns backing President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are drawing even in their fundraising prowess, but new ...
3 dead, 2 wounded in Houston club shooting
Gunfire erupted outside a Houston night club early Wednesday, killing three people and wounding two others as hundreds of confused concert-goers hit ...
Museum: Fast action may help save Picasso painting
Within minutes of a vandal spray painting a Pablo Picasso painting, Houston museum officials had rushed the valuable artwork into their onsite ...
Vandalism of Picasso painting caught on video
Police have video recordings to help them search for a man who spray-painted Pablo Picasso's "Woman in a Red Armchair" at a Houston art museum.
Texas teen in police beating video case rearrested
As he testified last month at the first of potentially several trials of ex-Houston police officers accused of beating him during a 2010 burglary ...
Matt Cain gem gives Giants a perfect game at last
Matt Cain tossed and turned and managed all of about four hours of sleep following his history-making gem for the Giants. Perfectly understandable.
Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle
Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for ...
Texans give extensions to Smith, Kubiak
The Houston Texans announced contract extensions Thursday for general manager Rick Smith and coach Gary Kubiak, rewarding them for taking the team to ...
Texas man in stand-your-ground case could get life
A retired Houston-area firefighter faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him of murder for gunning down his unarmed neighbor during a ...