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The only Democratic candidate for Orange County Judge has been ruled ineligible because the check for his filing fee bounced, the party announced Thursday.

An FBI agent fatally shot a Montgomery County kidnapping victim during a predawn operation in northeast Houston, according to law enforcement sources.

Harvey was the second-most costly hurricane on record in the United States, dropping its highest amount of rainfall in Southeast Texas, according to the Tropical Cyclone Report released Thursday by the National Weather Service.

Southeast Texas school districts are announcing make up days for last week's weather closures.

For more than 111 years, the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House has added splendor to its Park Street neighborhood, withstood decline and beat back monstrous storms with strong bones that, in time, grew so weak that the city now wants to end its pain in violent, undignified demolition.
A red tag on its doorstep is the invitation to its death.
After other heroic, yet quixotic attempts to grab back the Queen Anne-styled architectural rarity from the claws of a frontloader, a former Beaumont resident who once delivered newspapers to the hitching posts at 1814 Park St.

A man accused of storing stolen property at his Nederland home said he didn't alert police about the thefts because "he didn't want to be labeled a snitch."