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The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries announced Thursday the first wave of grants for Texas school libraries that were decimated by Hurricane Harvey's winds and floodwaters.

Houston district court judge Michelle Slaughter received jury summons to her own court.

Lamar State College-Orange president Michael Shahan will retire this summer, the school announced Thursday.

Our cameras were at the Crowder concert at the Julie Rogers Theatre on Wednesday night. Did we see you there?

The once-crowded docks just north of Interstate 10 sit mostly empty, with just a few slips filled with storm-worn boats, their metal railings warped and twisted.

Ozen High School Principal Donna Prudhomme took calls all last week from people who wanted to know how they could watch Monday night's college football championship game.
They wanted to see "little Tony" play.
"I told them go look at the TV Guide," Prudhomme said. "But that just shows you how people here at Ozen feel about Tony Brown."
Brown, an Ozen graduate, and West Orange-Stark graduate Deionte Thompson started on the left side of Alabama's defensive secondary Monday, contributing to the Crimson Tide's 26-23 national championship win over
Georgia in overtime on ESPN.

The family of a man who died in an altercation with police at a Port Arthur hospital in 2016 has sued the Police Department, city and medical center, alleging that their negligence and use of excessive force caused his death.

Almost 30 years ago, an English playwright on a bus trip across the southern United States saw three small billboards along westbound Interstate 10 outside Beaumont. They were seared into his brain, and after he became a movie director, supplied inspiration for a major film. "Vidor Police Botched Up the Case." "Waiting For Confession." "This Could Happen To You!" The billboards were erected by James Fulton, father of Katherine Fulton Page, who was frustrated at the Vidor Police Department's inability to solve his daughter's 1991 murder.