Cypress News

Named to the 2009 USA U19 World Championship Team are returning USA Basketball gold medalists Kelsey Bone ; Skylar Diggins ; Kelly Faris ; Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Samantha Prahalis , who helped the U.S. advance to the '09 U19 Worlds by claiming gold at the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship.

An investigation was underway Friday after a suburban Houston man returned home from work to find his 18-year-old daughter dead in her closet.

Frank Cooper III, age 23, died unexpectedly at his home in Friendswood, TX on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

A northwest Harris County restaurant has promised to make changes after it denied a blind man with a guide dog service, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

Homeowners in the Cypress-Fairbanks school district will keep their special tax break, and about 75 employees will lose their jobs, the school board decided Thursday.

Two Central Texas school districts - Lake Travis and Lago Vista - will be the unintended beneficiaries of a decision by Education Commissioner Robert Scott to help one struggling Houston-area school district.

Harris County mosquito control has detected the first West Nile virus of the season.

ReGarding "Iran wavers amid dissent and despair" , news of the hotly contested presidential election in Iran caused me to critique our own democratic processes and see how we compare.

Harris County reported the state's first instance of West Nile virus of the season on Tuesday after finding the disease in two batches of mosquitoes in the Spring Branch and Cypress areas.

Law enforcememt officials are awaiting autopsy results to learn the cause of death of a local man who was found dead Wednesday afternoon in an empty field near the intersection of Clay and Fry roads in the Katy area.

Two people killed in a motorcycle accident in Austin this weekend have been identified as a young married couple from Cypress in Northwest Harris County.

Homeowners in the Cypress-Fairbanks school district would see their property tax bills jump some 20 percent under Superintendent David Anthony's proposal to revoke the optional homestead exemption.

The Cypress Creek Hike and Bike Trails are being created for all to enjoy in north Harris County, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

Mix 1 cup regular laundry detergent with 1 gallon hot water. If mold and mildew are a problem, just add 1 cup chlorine bleach to the mixture.

A Cypress-Fairbanks volunteer firefighter lost his legs after a vehicle ran into him on Monday afternoon, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Harris County fire investigators say they may never know what caused a mobile home fire that killed a 27 year old woman early Sunday.

CYPRESS, Texas, May 23 TX-Stephen-Lyttleton CYPRESS, Texas , May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephen Lyttleton has just released a new album of soulful piano trios, Sunrise at Basin Harbor.

In these recessionary times, how can a girl keep their fashionista membership card from being revoked? They head to the nearest designer outlet mall, of course, for discounted, name-brand clothing and shoes.

It may be one of the hardest times to find work since the Great Depression, but if you lose your job, you won't be lonely: the recently unemployed have never been in better company.

Shortchanged and shafted, that's pretty much sums up how many folks are feeling in the neighborhood of Stablewood farms.