Via MyFoxHouston.com: CLEVELAND, Texas – It gets worse and worse: 4 Cleveland ISD students have been arrested in connection the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl. Their names are being withheld because they’re juveniles. They’ve all been charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child under 14. A spokeswoman with Cleveland ISD said the students […]

H-Town

Via HoustonChronicle.com: Latinos accounted for two-thirds of the state’s population growth over the past decade and now make up 38 percent of the Texas population, up from 32 percent in 2000. The Anglo population has dropped to 45.3 percent, down from 52.4 percent in 2000. The black population remains at 11.5 percent, unchanged from 10 […]

FORT WORTH, Texas – One Pittsburgh safety kept interrupting reporters’ questions about the Super Bowl to complain it was too chilly. A Green Bay receiver bragged that the snow outside made the Packers “the home team.” Even the player known as “The Freezer” said Texas was just too cold. Five days before the Super Bowl, […]

Finance

Texans paid an average $1,460 a year for the most common homeowner policy sold nationwide, the association reported this week, based on data from 2008. Under legislation passed in 2003, companies can charge rates as soon as they file them with the state Insurance Department. The insurance industry argues the new system allows insurers to […]

Politics

AUSTIN — Medicaid is the health lifeline for more than 3 million of the most vulnerable Texans, but some Republicans, including Gov. Rick Perry, are talking about opting out of the program as a massive state budget shortfall looms. Perry told Fox News that he thinks Texas could find a “private insurance solution” that would […]

AUSTIN – Unless lawmakers dig deep, Texas may pull back a lifeline that keeps about 15,000 people alive. The Texas HIV Medication Program, which supplies life-sustaining anti-retroviral drugs to people with HIV or AIDS who can’t afford them, will run out of money in the next two years and be forced to cut off enrollment, […]

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Politics

AUSTIN — Democrat Bill White said on Friday that he doesn’t think Gov. Rick Perry shows enough respect to President Barack Obama.  Read More:

Via Click2houston.com: An accident involving a big rig shut down a northeast Houston freeway interchange in all directions Thursday afternoon, KPRC Local 2 reported. The 18-wheeler overturned on the Eastex Freeway northbound ramp at the North Loop westbound shortly before 2 p.m. TxDOT said the truck was carrying isopropyl alcohol, which is highly flammable. Crews […]

Check out this incredible article from our great friends at The Atlanta post on R&B singer, actress and business woman LeToya Luckett, where she talks about her endeavors post Destiny’s Child. by Dejuan Galloway LeToya Luckett may have established her worldwide fame in the music business as one fourth of the original Destiny’s Child but […]