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An El Paso woman found slain in Juarez was identified as 19-year-old Esmeralda Jazmin Portillo, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said Wednesday.

A 19-year-old woman from El Paso was found dumped on a Juarez street with her throat slashed, one of more than 200 homicides in June.

A 17 year old Liberty County teen was killed in a early morning crash. It happened on FM 562 in Chambers County, just three miles east of Anahuac.

When artist June Woest moved into her Bellaire studio, she was surprised to find that a colony of green parrots had set up housekeeping in the gigantic transmission towers behind it.

How safe are the 18 wheelers we share the road with every day? From now through Thursday,DPS troopers and others trained to inspect commercial vehicles will be taking a close look at them to make sure drivers are obeying safety laws.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says an additional $19.5 million in economic developments funds will be used as part of the ongoing recovery efforts along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Another $19.5 million is heading Houston's way courtesy of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration investments.

Crop dusters once looked like swarming bees flying over Chambers and Jefferson counties.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike's steamroll across the Bolivar Peninsula, before-and-after aerial photos of beach communities like Caplen and Gilchrist became iconic images of the hurricane's devastating power.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has obligated a $4.3 million grant to the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District to help pay the costs of repairs to a levee on Lake Anahuac that was damaged during the Hurricane Ike disaster.

Government officials get all sorts of training for emergencies like hurricanes. Cities and counties have professional emergency management coordinators.

Sitting atop his black horse, Blessing, in the shadows behind the horse chutes Sunday, 12-year-old K.J. Carmon prepared for his ride in the biggest rodeo he participates in each year.

Houston Symphony librarian Tom Takaro holds a new book of music. Share Resources More than just notes SENTIMENTAL REACQUISITION The Houston Symphony will perform one of the 21 fanfare works that were commissioned more than two decades ago for the Texas Sesquicentennial and lost during Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.

Almost 200 children at two Chambers County schools learned how to care for pets in a disaster, make emergency kits for their families, administer first aid and prepare in other ways for an emergency through a hands-on educational program offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency .

Youth help Mennonite Disaster Service volunteers repair homes in Anahuac, north of Galveston, damaged by Hurricane Ike.

Former Chambers County Judge Guy C. Jackson, 77, died Monday night in Anahuac, according to Sterling Funeral Home.

Incumbents in Silsbee and Anahuac apparently aren't ready to leave their civic posts just yet, according to recent filings in the May elections.

Bill Brown is about ready to start doing rain dances. With no significant rainfall recently, the 71-year-old rice farmer is without fresh water to moisten his 500 acres of land for planting.

In the late hours of September 12, 2008, I performed a nearly flawless Geraldo Rivera impression, leaning my body into the 100-mile-per-hour winds and stinging horizontal rain of Hurricane Ikea s eyewall as it ...