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HOUSTON Two teenagers were taken to the hospital late Saturday night after police said they were involved in a car wreck stemming from an altercation with another teen in southwest Houston.

It seems that someone still finds value in traveling to Austin . Travel + Leisure recently ranked Austin the No.

It's almost summertime in the city, and for me that means two things: Spending more time outdoors and drinking wine.

Before the social swells depart for their summers in cooler climes, the non-profits are filling the May calendar with kickoffs for their fall fundraisers and retailers are inviting others to shop for a worthy cause.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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.

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