The son of a politician from the Dominican Republic was fatally shot outside a gas station in Houston on Monday night in what the police said they believed was a “targeted” drive-by shooting. The Houston Police Department on Wednesday identified the man who was killed as Luis Alfredo Pacheco Rojas, 34, son of Alfredo Pacheco,…
A child was critically injured on Sunday afternoon after a woman in her 30s opened fire at a Christian megachurch in Houston led by Joel Osteen, the televangelist and pastor, the authorities said. At just before 2 p.m., the woman, holding a long rifle and wearing a trench coat and backpack, entered Lakewood Church, among…
Leonard Wickers, a 73-year-old carpenter, took a break from building a new house in South Houston to cast a ballot during early voting this week for the city’s mayoral runoff election. Like most at the polling site in a largely Black neighborhood, Mr. Wickers, who is Black, said he backed Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a…
Cheryl Hensley, a librarian in Houston, was excited for the start of school. A veteran of four decades in the city’s public school system, she had stocked her library at Lockhart Elementary, a mostly Black school, with $40,000 in new books, and won a statewide award for her work. Then, late last month, Ms. Hensley,…
Bats can sleep upside down, fly at up to 100 miles per hour and use their own version of sonar to hunt down insect hunters. But they can’t stand cold weather. The powerful winter storm that swept across much of the United States last week proved nearly too strong for hundreds of the flying mammals…