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Houston-area restaurant adds 3.5% card surcharge as rising costs squeeze business https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25401/ #Bellaire #HarrisCounty #news #Restaurant #Restaurants #TopStories #TX #Us

Talarico Brings Faith, Justice, and His Senate Campaign to Harris County at The Luke Church

Can James Talarico flip Texas? His appearance at The Luke reveals the multiracial, faith-centered coalition he hopes to mobilize against Ken Paxton.

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With the November election less than a month away, there were over 21,000 Harris County voter registration applications still pending as of Thursday, according to the county.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2025/10/10/533146/more-than-21000-harris-county-voter-registration-applications-are-still-pending-ahead-of-november-election/

#Elections #HarrisCounty #Local #News #BEXARCOUNTY #FortBendCounty #HarrisCountyClerkSOffice #HarrisCountyTaxAssessorCollector #TexasSecretaryOfStateSOffice

Fulfilling a longtime objective proposed during John Whitmire's mayoral campaign, the state plans to deploy Department of Public Safety troopers to Houston in an effort to curb violent crime. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/law-enforcement/2025/10/01/532340/we-are-coming-for-you-abbott-announces-harris-county-task-force-targeting-repeat-violent-offenders/

#HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #DepartmentOfPublicSafety #TaskForce #TexasDPS #ViolentOffenders

A Harris County jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/09/23/531697/jury-begins-deliberating-in-manslaughter-case-against-tony-earls/

#Court #Crime #CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #ArleneAlvarez #HarrisCountyCourts #ManslaughterTrial #ShootingDeath #TonyEarls

Family members of Alexis Cardenas want witness statements and unedited surveillance footage of a struggle with detention officers that preceded his death inside of the Harris County Jail, according to a pre-lawsuit petition filed Thursday in court.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/09/12/530732/legal-filing-seeks-medical-records-unedited-video-footage-of-alexis-cardenas-death-in-harris-county-jail/

#Court #CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Houston #LawEnforcement #Local #News #AlexisCardenas #HarrisCountyJail #HarrisCountyJailDeaths #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #MedicalRecords #TexasRule202Petition

The July death of Alexis Cardenas, one of more than 10 people to die in Harris County Jail custody this year, was classified as a homicide by the county medical examiner.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/09/03/529975/harris-county-inmate-death-classified-as-homicide-by-institute-of-forensic-sciences/

#CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Houston #LawEnforcement #Local #News #AlexisCardenas #HarrisCountyJail #HarrisCountyJailDeaths #HarrisCountyMedicalExaminer #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice

Two men in the Houston area took turns shooting each other earlier this month while wearing a ballistics helmet, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, who said the incident led to the death of one of them and murder charges for the other.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2025/08/29/529791/houston-area-man-charged-with-murder-after-friends-took-turns-shooting-each-other-sheriff-says/

#Crime #Guns #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #HarrisCountySheriffEdGonzalez #Kevlar #MurderCharge #ShootingDeath

More than a month after a Houston man died during an altercation with detention officers inside of the Harris County Jail, questions about his initial arrest and the struggle that preceded his death continue to linger.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/08/26/529436/months-after-harris-county-jail-death-questions-about-arrest-altercation-with-officers-remain/

#CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #Police #AlexisCardenas #HarrisCountyJail #HarrisCountyJailDeath #HoustonLawEnforcement #HoustonPoliceDepartment #JailDeaths

A tax increase proposal to support a slate of education programs failed to meet a key deadline after Harris County commissioners said County Judge Lina Hidalgo's efforts to pass the measure disrupted decorum during Thursday's meeting.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/harris-county/2025/08/07/528217/harris-county-commissioners-call-for-order-in-courtroom-as-hidalgos-tax-proposal-fails/

#Education #EducationNews #HarrisCounty #Local #News #Politics #ChildCarePrograms #HarrisCountyCommissioners #HarrisCountyCommissionersCourt #HarrisCountyJudgeLinaHidalgo #LinaHidalgo #TaxIncreaseProposal

A major expansion of the Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center is set to include the seizure of nearly nine acres of land in Hermann Park, once envisioned as a healing garden for patients and visitors.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/07/30/527324/ben-taub-hospital-expansion-set-to-include-nearly-nine-acre-land-seizure-from-hermann-park/

#HarrisCounty #HealthScience #Local #News #HermannPark #HermannParkConservancy #MedicalCenter #TexasMedicalCenter #TexasParks

A district judge has temporarily blocked new reporting requirements issued by the Texas Attorney General's Office that prosecutors argued were unconstitutional and burdensome.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/06/20/524488/judge-blocks-texas-ags-reporting-rules-for-big-city-prosecutors/

#News #Texas #AttorneyGeneralOffice #BEXARCOUNTY #DallasCountyDistrictAttorney #HarrisCounty #KenPaxton #Lawsuit

One of the workers who was injured in a scaffolding collapse this week at the Port Arthur LNG facility, along with surviving relatives of two of the workers who died, are seeking more than $1 million in a lawsuit filed in Harris County.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2025/05/02/520479/victims-in-deadly-port-arthur-lng-scaffolding-collapse-file-lawsuit-against-companies/

#Business #Court #HarrisCounty #Local #News #ConocoPhillips #PortArthurLNG #ScaffoldingCollapse #Sempra #WrongfulDeathLawsuit

A group of Harris County Democratic Party officials are criticizing Houston Mayor John Whitmire over his participation in a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/04/23/519576/john-whitmire-faces-backlash-for-attending-gop-rep-dan-crenshaw-fundraiser-critics-say-maga-mayor/

#CityOfHouston #HarrisCounty #Houston #HoustonMayor #Local #News #Politics #CongressmanDanCrenshaw #DanCrenshaw #HarrisCountyDemocraticParty #HoustonFundraiser #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire

Authorities are asking for information regarding the death of a 19-year-old Missouri City resident who was shot Friday during a suspected road rage incident near Katy.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/09/30/501379/19-year-old-killed-in-suspected-road-rage-shooting/

#Crime #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #CodyJohnson #HarrisCountySherffSOffice #Katy #MissouriCity #RoadRageShootings

Attorney General Ken Paxton is threatening to sue counties that send out voter registration applications to people who haven’t specifically requested them. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2024/09/13/499961/paxton-threatens-to-sue-counties-that-send-out-voter-registration-applications-without-being-asked/

#Election2024 #HarrisCounty #Local #News #Politics #Voting #BEXARCOUNTY #TexasAttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #TexasVoterRegistration #TravisCounty

Harris County Precinct 4 Corporal Maher Husseini allegedly engaged in a cordial interaction with a man accused in his shooting death minutes before the killing, according to probable cause documents provided by the district attorney's office.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/09/06/498755/harris-county-corporal-spoke-with-alleged-killer-shook-hands-minutes-before-his-shooting-death-court-documents-assert/

#Crime #LawEnforcement #News #ConstableSOffice #HarrisCounty #MaherHusseini #Precinct4 #ShootingDeath

The first civil trial in the ongoing Astroworld Festival litigation, scheduled to start this week, is on hold after Apple filed an appeal in a continued attempt to be dismissed from the hundreds of lawsuits that were filed after the 2021 tragedy.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/05/06/486722/astroworld-festival-trial-on-hold-as-apple-appeals-in-attempt-to-be-dismissed-from-lawsuits/

#Court #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Apple #AstroworldFestival #AstroworldFestivalTragedy #AstroworldLawsuits #TexasFirstCourtOfAppeals #WrongfulDeathLawsuit

Harris and other major Texas counties say their local jails are backed up with convicted state prisoners. The state says it's following the law.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/04/24/484385/texas-jails-have-an-overcrowding-issue-is-the-state-making-it-worse-by-delaying-prison-transfers/

#CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #InDepth #Local #News #Texas #BEXARCOUNTY #DallasCounty #HarrisCountyJail #Jail #Overcrowding #Prison #StateTransfers #TarrantCountyJail #Tdcj #TexasDepartmentOfCriminalJustice #Understaffing