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In a surprise Friday press conference, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced the Grand Jury indictments of three local Democrats — Richard Bonton, Natasha Demming and Damien Jones — connected to two election fraud schemes tied to the local Texas House of Representatives races in House Districts 142 and 132.

For almost six months now, iPhone and Android users in Texas have had cutting-edge technology that can alert them if they’ve been exposed to the deadly coronavirus right in their pockets. The only problem is state and local health departments have so far chosen not to use it. The technology — jointly developed by iPhone-maker Apple and Android operating system developer Google — was released back in May, and notifies users who have the tech enabled on their devices if they have come into ...

For the second time in 16 days, Fort Bend County Judge KP George has raised his county’s COVID-19 threat level due to the rapid local spread of COVID-19 and its toll on local hospitals. On Wednesday afternoon, George announced that he had upgraded the local COVID-19 threat to a red alert, the highest level in the local threat level system unveiled several months ago, signalling widespread outbreaks and a strained local healthcare system.