Nov 08 Watch 6:25 What went wrong at the Astroworld Festival and how panic played a role in the crowd surge By Lisa Desjardins, Karina Cuevas, Claire Mufson A crowd surge last Friday at the Astroworld Festival in Houston Texas left eight people dead and many others injured. Since the incident, there has been a growing number of questions and concerns about the security measures that were in… Continue watching
Nov 08 Astroworld concert victims in weekend tragedy identified By Juan A. Lozano, Jamie Stengle, Associated Press Authorities have released the names of the eight people who died at a Houston music festival over the weekend. Continue reading
Nov 08 Aspiring border agent, dancer, engineer identified among Astroworld concert dead By Randall Chase, Mike Catalini, Associated Press Clearer pictures began to emerge Sunday of some of the eight young people who died when fans at a Travis Scott concert in Houston suddenly surged toward the stage. Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch 3:41 Houston music reporter's eyewitness account of concert tragedy and investigation By PBS NewsHour A chaotic crush of fans rushing toward the stage at a Travis Scott show at Houston’s Astroworld music festival is being blamed for a ‘mass casualty event,’ that killed at least eight people and injured dozens more. Houston Chronicle music… Continue watching
Nov 06 Crowd surge kills at least 8 at Houston music festival By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press The crowd at a Houston music festival suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or move their arms, witnesses said Saturday, hours after at least… Continue reading
Sep 13 Tropical Storm Nicholas gets stronger, threatens to hit Texas as hurricane By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Tropical Storm Nicholas gathered strength Monday and threatened to blow ashore in Texas as a hurricane that could bring up to 20 inches of rain to parts of the Gulf Coast. Continue reading
Jun 01 Houston seethes over being frozen out of federal flood funds By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press Houston residents and officials are seething over a Texas agency's decision to not award the city a single cent of the initial $1 billion in federal flood mitigation funding the state was promised following Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Continue reading
May 31 2 dead, 2 injured after man opens fire in Houston nightclub By Associated Press Houston police chief Troy Finner says investigators are trying to confirm that the gunman is among those who died in the shooting early Monday. Continue reading
Nov 03 Appeals court declines to ban drive-thru voting in Houston By Associated Press The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has rejected an eleventh hour Republican effort to bar Election Day drive-thru voting in Houston in a one-sentence ruling issued late Monday. Continue reading
Nov 02 Judge rejects GOP effort to throw out 127,000 Houston votes By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press The county is the nation's third largest and a crucial battleground in Texas, where President Donald Trump and Republicans are bracing for the closest election in decades on Tuesday. Continue reading