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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.

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

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

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.

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.