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FBI timeline shows how Shamsud-Din Jabbar planned the 2025 New Orleans attack that killed 14, as his family still searches for how he became radicalized. Source: A year later, source of New Orleans attacker’s hate remains a mystery Continue reading

Like Houston freeway traffic, the pace of reducing roadway deaths and serious injuries is a slow crawl, as the city reports fewer calamities in 2025 – albeit at less of a decline than the rest of the state. Advocates say it shows Houston – long considered the state leader in on-street deaths because of its size… Continue reading

With one exception, no one in Nicholas Hartman’s family thought he would ever come home again. He went to war and became another 20-year-old American soldier killed on D-Day. Hartman was never really accounted for, recorded as “unidentified” along with three U.S. Army brothers. Instead of returning to his native Houston, he was interred in… Continue reading

Kristin Tips, chairwoman of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, sent multiple Islamophobic links as her state agency investigated a Plano mosque. Source: Texas funeral board chair shared anti-Islam texts during EPIC probe Continue reading

They came with tents, campers and recreational vehicles hoping for a peaceful holiday weekend, but when the flood came and the Guadalupe River grew and scoured its banks, it was visitors to Kerr County who became some of the most vulnerable. The dozens of people swept from campsites, cabins and RV parks, likely had little… Continue reading

Asked amid a flurry of design changes and shifts in street policy whether he was abandoning Houston’s goal of eliminating vehicle deaths by 2030, Mayor John Whitmire in February 2024 said a goal for the future wasn’t what the city needed. “My commitment to ending the loss of lives starts right now,” the mayor said at the… Continue reading

On a video call earlier this month, Naqibullah Laghmanai showed his mother and two teenage brothers the rooms ready for them in his Houston home. Their long, painful wait to travel from Pakistan to Texas was almost complete. Their paperwork was in order, interviews completed and medical evaluations submitted. “I showed them everything in my house,” Laghmanai… Continue reading

The collapse of The Alliance, one of Houston’s stalwart refugee resettlement groups, did not come as a shock to the nonprofits and other agencies with ties to the region’s refugees and immigrants. It merely added to their often stacked workload of providing classes, offering financial help and helping newcomers navigate the residency process. And the timing of… Continue reading

Signs, signs everywhere. In the Houston area there are signs, and a litany of them are illegal and drawing the attention of drivers at high-traffic intersections. Houston area residents are noticing a slew of new signs offering construction deals, cash offers for homes and other services after the recent storms hit the area. Many of those signs… Continue reading

Transit officials in Houston are shelving plans for the University Corridor, once the backbone of the region’s long-term plan, citing the squeeze that proceeding with the rapid bus project could put on other services. “It is only in the recent years, post-pandemic, that we have understood its impact,” said George Fotinos, chief financial officer for… Continue reading