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This post-Christmas Sunday, over 1.28 million people flew out of U.S. airports. It was the highest single-day airport volume since the pandemic began, beating out the more than 1.19 million passengers on December 23 and the 1.17 million-plus people who flew on November 29, the Sunday following Thanksgiving. While we wait and see how much the busy holiday travel season will affect COVID-19’s worsening spread throughout the Houston area, it’s undeniable that having so many more people moving ...

In a pre-Christmas Eve press conference, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo urged county residents to stay home for the holidays and limit any Christmas or New Year’s Eve celebrations to within their immediate households given the troubling upticks in local coronavirus metrics over the last few months.

On Tuesday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner formally announced that the first ever commercial space station will be built right here in Houston by Axiom Space, a local company with strong NASA ties. “It will be the world’s first free-flying, internationally available private space station that will serve as humanity’s central hub for research, manufacturing, and commerce in low-Earth orbit,” Turner proclaimed, before declaring that the project will eventually bring over 1,000 high-skille...

Given that increase and the steadily growing number of COVID-19 patients in local hospitals over the past several weeks, Turner echoed his statements ahead of Thanksgiving and asked Houstonians to keep their Christmas gatherings local and confined to people who they already share a roof with. “I’m asking people to cancel your holiday gatherings if you plan to gather, especially outside of your immediate household,” Turner said. “I’m asking that you delay those activities. To avoid a s...

The Lampkin sisters — Zanda, 50, Erneka, 43, and Tiffany, 36 — always wanted to become college graduates, but never expected to achieve that dream together given their age difference. Life got in the way of each of their plans for higher education, but after years of hard work and perseverance, the stars finally aligned for the three Houstonians in 2020 when they finally earned their long sought-after college degrees, together. In an unexpected twist, all three of the Lampkin sisters walked...

A Harris County Probate Court hearing on 2019’s fatal Harding Street raid scheduled for Friday was delayed by the City of Houston’s last-minute request that the case be bumped up to the federal level and heard by the U.S. Southern District of Texas. Friday’s hearing was set to be held in county probate court because that court has jurisdiction over wrongful death cases. The family of Rhogena Nicholas, one of the two Houstonians killed by Houston Police Department officers in last year’s...

On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Alfred Dewayne Brown is entitled to monetary compensation from the Texas Comptroller’s Office due to his near decade on death row for a crime investigators later found he did not commit. Back in 2005, Brown was convicted of murdering Houston Police Officer Charles Clark and sentenced to death. But in 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out Brown’s conviction after a Harris County detective found phone records that corrobo...

In a Thursday morning press conference outside of the UPS Distribution Center in Austin, Gov. Greg Abbott gave an update on the state’s coronavirus vaccine distribution program before he vowed that there will be “no more shutdowns” in Texas despite the still-raging pandemic. Abbott said that around 95,000 doses of Pfizer’s recently approved vaccine have already been shipped out across Texas, and that an additional 129,000 doses will be heading out on UPS delivery trucks today. Texas’s...

After months of courtroom wrangling, the legal team representing Rhogena Nicholas’s family will head to a courtroom this Friday as it continues its quest for more details surrounding 2019’s fatal Harding Street raid, during which Houston Police officers shot and killed Nicholas and her husband Dennis Tuttle. On Monday, Harris County Probate Court Judge Jerry Simoneaux ruled that he would hear the Nicholas family’s case at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The case is being heard in probate court due to t...

The eye-popping statistic was uncovered after the health department, in partnership with Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, analyzed the level of COVID-19 antibodies found in blood samples given by Houston residents from a random sample of 420 local households. Between September 9-18, the health department collected blood samples from 678 willing locals. “Our results show that an estimated 13.5 percent of Houstonians, which is approximately 250,000 people, had been infected with ...