University of Houston News

"My grandfather for one, my uncles have served, my older brother served during the Clinton administration." Cadet Brian Campbell is with the ARMY ROTC at the University of Houston, who's due to become a Commissioned Filed Artillery officer as soon as he graduates in December.

The race for Houston's next mayor is heating up for the Dec. 12 runoff election, with former Marshallite Gene Locke in for the fight.

The South Plains Optometric Society will honor the 94th birthday of local optometrist J. Davis Armistead at 6 p.m. at the Lubbock Club.

This has got to be a good day for Guy Bailey , the former UMKC chancellor who took off to become president of Texas Tech University last year.

Only 14 percent of Houston voters turned out to cast their ballot in the race for mayor, a number Political Scientist Richard Murray with the University of Houston says he's never seen so low: "Not in a competitive open seat election, this sets a record for our city - not one I think we should be very proud of." He says most residents of Houston ...

The man who the knows the Bayou City economy better than anybody says Houstonians have much to be grateful for.

Good news for those attending these free performances at Miller Outdoor Theater during the cool, Fall months of November in Houston, Texas.

A computer scientist from the University of Houston and a doctor of sleep medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have teamed up to create a new, less invasive method of diagnosing sleep apnea.

The staid Hilton hotel on the University of Houston campus is getting a much needed makeover.

JOHN O'Quinn, a bare-knuckles American lawyer whose outsized personality matched the jury awards he won for his clients, has died in a car crash in Houston, Texas.

Turnout of only about 25 percent was forecast as voters chose Tuesday among four major candidates hoping to become mayor of America's fourth-largest city.

The Houston legal community remains in shock over the death yesterday in a car accident of famed trial lawyer, John O'Quinn. O'Quinn was a remarkably talented plaintiff's lawyer and became one of the wealthiest attorneys in the country as a result.

John O'Quinn, a plaintiff's lawyer whose outsized personality matched the jury awards he won for his clients, died Thursday when the sport utility vehicle he was driving jumped a median, crossed several lanes of oncoming traffic and smashed into a tree along a parkway in Houston.

Arms crossed and feet spread wide, John O'Quinn bestows a commanding gaze from the wall in the building that bears his name.

Nationally known plaintiffs lawyer John M. O'Quinn of The O'Quinn Law Firm was killed in an automobile accident this morning near downtown Houston.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The presidents of Texas' three Tier One universities have drafted an open letter to the public in support of Proposition 4 on the Tuesday ballot.

Welcome to the last of a four-part blog series that focuses on a hot mayor's race and the people who know Houston's candidates best -- their families.

John O'Quinn is being remembered as a bigger-than-life figure with a big heart. O'Quinn, one of Houston's most prominent attorneys, was killed in a single-car crash on Allen Parkway Thursday morning.

Houston lawyer John O'Quinn, who was instrumental in pioneering verdicts against the makers of breast implants, hazardous drugs and tobacco products, has died in a traffic accident.

Proposition 4, which would establish a $500 million fund for Tier 1 universities, could have a significant impact on South Texas even though none of the local universities would be designated as Tier 1, also known as an emerging research university.