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Houston area officials at odds with chamber on voting bills

By Juan A. Lozano May. 05, 2021 06:46 PM EDT
HOUSTON (AP) — The top two elected officials in the Houston area on Wednesday expressed rare public criticism of the region’s largest chamber of commerce and...

Houston Police Chief New Houston Police Chief Troy Finner embraces Mayor Sylvester Turner after he is sworn in as HPD's newest leader during a ceremony at City Hall Monday, April 5, 2021, in Houston. Finner is a 54-year-old veteran who hails from Fifth Ward and attended Madison High School in Houston. He formally takes the reins of the police department, the same day that outgoing Chief Art Acevedo is sworn in as chief in Miami. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Houston's new top cop takes reins as homicides still rising

By Juan A. Lozano Apr. 05, 2021 04:36 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Apr. 05, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Houston Chronicle. March 30, 2021. Editorial: Dan Patrick declares revolution for power grid. Texans must hold him to it ...

Kenneth Henderson carries a case of donated water back to his home, which was without running water after the recent winter storm, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Houston. Local officials, including Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, say they have focused their efforts during the different disasters on helping the underserved and under-resourced but that their work is far from complete. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Deep freeze just latest disaster to befall Houston's needy

By Juan A. Lozano Mar. 08, 2021 05:11 AM EST

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at a FEMA COVID-19 mass vaccination site at NRG Stadium, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Houston. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Biden surveys Texas weather damage, encourages virus shots

By Darlene Superville Feb. 26, 2021 12:33 AM EST

Texas congresswoman Penny Morales Shaw, from left, joins U.S. Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sylvia Garcia, as they fill boxes at the Houston Food Bank on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Texas on Friday, directing federal agencies to help in the recovery. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Biden to visit storm-ravaged Texas Friday

By Alexandra Jaffe Feb. 23, 2021 12:40 PM EST

Houston officials to open giant COVID-19 vaccination center

Feb. 22, 2021 06:57 PM EST
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Houston are opening a giant COVID-19 vaccination center that will serve an estimated 126,000 people over the next three...

A medical worker prepares a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a local rural medical post in the village of Ikhala in Russia’s Karelia region, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Russia took pride in being the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, although it faced criticism from aboard for doing it before completing the advanced testing necessary to ensure Sputnik V’s safety and effectiveness. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
The Latest: Mexico receives shipment of Sputnik V vaccine

By The Associated Press Feb. 22, 2021 04:25 AM EST

Ambulances line up outside of St. David's South Austin Medical Center in preparation to transport patients in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Hospitals across the South grappled with water shortages Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021 as the region carried on with recovery efforts in the wake of a devastating winter storm, and the weather offered a balmy respite — temperatures as high as the mid-60s. (Bronte Wittpenn/Austin American-Statesman via AP, file)
Hospitals confront water shortages in winter storm aftermath

By Juan Lozano, Jonathan Mattise And Adrian Sainz Feb. 21, 2021 11:37 AM EST

Victor Hernandez, left, and Luis Martinez fill their water containers with a hose from a spigot in Haden Park, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 in Houston. Texas officials have ordered 7 million people to boil tap water before drinking it following days of record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and froze pipes. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
The Latest: Most of a Mississippi city is without water

Feb. 18, 2021 11:27 AM EST

People wait in a long line to buy groceries at H-E-B on South Congress Avenue during an extreme cold snap and widespread power outage on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Millions endure record cold without power; at least 20 dead

By Bryan Anderson Feb. 16, 2021 08:23 AM EST

Igee Cummings walks through the snow Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Houston. A winter storm dropping snow and ice sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Officials: 2 dead in Texas as subfreezing cold sweeps US

By Paul J. Weber And Jake Bleiberg Feb. 15, 2021 01:39 PM EST

Registered nurse Kimberly Watley, left, talks to Michael Hatton before going hims a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Texas Southern University Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 in Houston. Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is partnering with TSU to begin administering vaccines to some of the most vulnerable populations. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
New Houston vaccination site to address racial disparity

By Juan A. Lozano Feb. 11, 2021 05:41 PM EST

Mega vaccination sites to be set up in Houston, Dallas area

By Juan A. Lozano Feb. 10, 2021 12:26 PM EST
HOUSTON (AP) — Three mega sites to administer the coronavirus vaccine will be set up later this month at stadiums and a fairgrounds site in Houston and the...

Texas likely to partner with FEMA for vaccine 'supersites'

Feb. 08, 2021 12:49 PM EST
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will likely partner with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to open two vaccination “supersites” in Dallas and Houston, and...

Texas to get more vaccine doses than expected this week

Jan. 31, 2021 11:10 AM EST
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas was scheduled to get more than 520,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week, more than state officials said they had originally...

FILE - Bow Wow attends WE TV's "Bridezillas" Season 11 premiere party on Feb. 22, 2018, in New York. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner called out the rapper for attending a crowded gathering at a city nightclub during a weekend packed with concerts as Texas continues to grapple with the coronavirus. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Rapper Bow Wow apologizes for attending packed Houston club

Jan. 19, 2021 05:56 PM EST

CORRECTS DATE FROM 28 TO 18 - Terezinha da Conceicao, sitting left, and Dulcinea da Silva Lopes, sitting right, become the first women to receive the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, during the start of the vaccination program in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
The Latest: Hawaii says scarcity hinders vaccination efforts

By The Associated Press Jan. 19, 2021 03:05 AM EST

Texas COVID-19 cases top 2 million since the pandemic began

Jan. 13, 2021 11:47 AM EST
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas coronavirus cases have now topped 2 million since the pandemic first struck the state in early March, state officials reported Wednesday. ...

Betty Lou Wahlstedt, 88, right, receives the COVID-19 vaccination from pharmacist Jeffery Smith at a senior living residents facility Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in Plano, Texas. The U.S. is entering the second month of the biggest vaccination effort in history with a major expansion of the campaign. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Texas Gov. Abbott lauds shift to mass vaccine sites

Jan. 11, 2021 04:13 PM EST