Month: October 2010

HOUSTON (AP) _ Democrat Bill White has told a Houston gubernatorial debate that it’s important that state government is “well-run as a public service for all people and not as a political machine.” His comment [Read More…]

HOUSTON (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says much of the Houston Ship Channel will be closed to marine traffic until at least Tuesday night. Petty Officer Richard Brahm says the estimate comes from the [Read More…]

TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) _ Twin nine-year-old sisters are dead and their father reportedly was hospitalized in critical condition after a current swept the girls away as they swam in Galveston Bay. The U.S. Coast [Read More…]

DALLAS (AP) _ Dr. Gary Purdue, chief of the burn section at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and co-director of the Parkland Memorial Hospital burn unit in Dallas for 22 years, [Read More…]