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4 hrs ago | The Advocate

Photos: Ascension in Focus, 5/9/13

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- Jesse Bateman reacts after winning the 2013 Ascension Idol competition, a fundraiser for the Ascension Fund.

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Sat May 18, 2013

KHOU-TV Houston

Suspected drunk driver slams into police patrol car on Highway 290

A Houston police officer was lucky to escape with only minor injuries after a pickup slammed into his patrol car early Saturday morning.

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KHOU-TV Houston

Deputies search for suspect in connection with shooting at north Houston restaurant

HOUSTON Homicide investigators are looking into the shooting death of a man at a Vietnamese restaurant Saturday afternoon in north Houston, deputies said.

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KHOU-TV Houston

One arrested, another at large after high speed chase in north Houston

A stolen car and a high speed chase late Friday night in north Houston landed one man in jail and the other on the run.

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KTEN-TV Denison

Texas officials find body of missing postal worker

Texas law enforcement agencies have found the body of a missing postal worker in the remains of her burned vehicle in a Houston suburb.

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InformationWeek

Texas School District Picks Dell Windows 8 Tablets

The Clear Creek Independent School District in Texas has chosen Dell Latitude tablets running Windows 8 as the basis for a one-to-one student technology program that will begin in the fall.

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Examiner.com

Texas All Star Wrestling returns to Traders Village Houston this weekend

Texas All Star Wrestling returns to the Trader's Village marketplace in Houston on Sunday afternoon for a live afternoon of pro wrestling .

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Fri May 17, 2013

Tyler Morning Telegraph

David A. Coats, M.D.

Memorial services for David Alexander Coats will be held at First Presbyterian Church on May 20, 2013, at 1 p.m. with the Rev.

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The Hearne Democrat

The Parish House is one of the more popular homes in this year's tour.

With 20 plus homes in the tour this year, the 45th annual Calvert Y+Tour of Homes is being billed as the Historical Pilgramage.

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Examiner.com

National Salad Month Houston restaurant specials: Get your family to eat veggies

Do you have a hard time getting your family to eat their vegetables? May is National Salad Month and with it many Houston area restaurants are serving up salad specials that may tempt even the most vegetable challenged person in your family.

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Houston Press

The Top Five Things to Do in Houston This Weekend: Pam Ann:Cockpit,...

Thankfully ameliorating the perils of modern flight with her Mad Men -era attendant's cap and saber-sharp punch lines, that gorgeous standup stew from Australia jets back into Houston this Friday with the appropriately titled Pam Ann: Cockpit! The title is appropriate in that you'll see more gay men in her audience than on a junket to San Francisco ... (more)

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KHOU-TV Houston

Mississippi Mass Choir to celebrate 25 years in Houston with concert

Courageous Faith Christian Center, shepherd by Pastor JD Herron, will host the renowned Mississippi Mass Choir on May 18.

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KHOU-TV Houston

Driver crashes into Houston home after being shot in head

A man driving a pickup truck was shot in the head, causing him to crash into a home in southeast Houston, police said.

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KHOU-TV Houston

Houston doctor's office broken into on same day as son's funeral

A doctor preparing for his son's funeral also had to deal with a break-in at his northeast Houston office early Friday.

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Houston Press

Openings & Closings: The Bar Beat Gets Busy While Sushi Spots Shutter

Weeks like this one make it hard to believe I'm actually leaving this post next Friday, because what a whirlwind of activity we've seen in the last seven days.

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ABC News

Phony Tombstones Used as Scarecrow for...

A Houston property owner has installed headstones as part of a convoluted plot to keep vagrants from loitering on his land.

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CultureMap

Uchi restaurant whiz puts on special $500-a-plate art dinners throughout Houston

Uchi's Phillip Speer, left, and Kaz Edwards, chef de cuisine, work on dishes at the Blaffer Art Museum fundraiser.

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BroadwayWorld.com

Maestro Hans Graf Bids Farewell to Houston Symphony, Beg. Tonight

Maestro Hans Graf will conduct the Houston Symphony in his final concerts as Music Director tonight, May 17 and the 18th.

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Thu May 16, 2013

KHOU-TV Houston

Smelly small town fight attracts big names from big city

Houston doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to what happens in Hempstead. But a small town fight over a giant garbage dump has attracted two of the highest profile combatants in the big city's public arena.

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Houston Press

That Tree in the Side of Project Row Houses? It's Not Art

In the current round of art projects at Project Row Houses, artist Rahul Mitra has filled his art house with colorful cardboard boxes and black-and-white wall drawings.

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