Houston

Across Houston — including the city’s historically Black Third Ward, where Floyd grew up — Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict represented some measure of justice after a year of mourning.

Critics say a slate of bills aimed at health care for trans kids are harmful examples of government overreach, and aren’t backed by science.

The Dallas-based airline returns after a 16-year hiatus.

Mutual aid is a centuries-old practice in which communities provide support for their neighbors. Volunteers across the country who spent that past year delivering groceries to the elderly and immunocompromised, providing food and first-aid to Black Lives Matter protesters, or raising money for the nearly 10 million Americans behind on rent amid the pandemic say mutual aid has become a vital form of COVID-19 relief and fundamental to the fight against systemic racism.

After kids are processed at the border, most are reconnected with family members and restart their lives in a new country, in a new language and with a new school. Each year, hundreds of them end up in Houston.

Former HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner will officially take over the department, Earlier in the day, Art Acevedo was sworn in as Miami police chief.

After hurricanes and a winter storm, many Black homeowners lack the resources to repair the homes they worked so hard to buy.

The news comes days after the announcement that current Chief Art Acevedo was leaving to take a leadership job in Miami.

At a Florida press conference, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez praised Acevedo, calling him “the best chief in America.”

Shane Jenkins, of Northwest Houston, was picked up at his home Friday morning after a tip led the FBI to several publicly available videos that appeared to show the man smashing a U.S. Capitol window with the metal survival hatchet, according to court documents.

Houston congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said she’ll push for the Biden administration to cut the state out of the loop, in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to lift a mask mandate in Texas.

The storm, which experts say may have caused billions of dollars in damage, is just the latest disaster in recent years to disproportionately affect Houston’s communities of color and its poorest residents. These include major floods in 2015 and 2016, devastation from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and, to a lesser degree, Tropical Storm Imelda two years later, a series of plant and refinery fires and explosions, and of course the coronavirus pandemic.