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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 botched raid, is seeking depositions from HPD managers who oversaw the narcotics unit responsible f...

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 corroborated Brown’s alibi, which Harris County prosecutors were aware of but never shared with Brown’s...

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 frontline healthcare workers were chosen to get the vaccine first since they are “the warriors at...

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 that court's jurisdiction over wrongful death cases, and the hearing comes after months of delay tact...

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 COVID-19 by September,” said Dr. Loren Hopkins, HHD’s chief environmental science officer. The h...