HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Mayor Sylvester Turner is proposing a two-week shutdown to 're-calibrate' as COVID-19 cases continue to increase.Turner said Saturday he believes there's nothing wrong with taking a few steps back and he acknowledged the city reopened too quickly.Two weekends ago ABC13 spoke with Turner and asked if he would support another shut…
(CNN)Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner thrust himself into the national spotlight Wednesday with his decision to cancel the contract for the Texas Republican Party to hold its state convention in the ci…
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Sunday said his region’s hospital system could be overwhelmed within two weeks if the coronavirus situation doesn’t improve. Mr. Turner said the number of people requiring hospitalization has “exponentially increased” and while the city can find new hospital beds, staffing will be a problem. Cases started to explode around mid-June,…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Sylvester Stallone gave an emotional video message on Wednesday to Broadway actor, Nick Cordero, who recently woke from a weeks-long coma as part of his desperate fight with COVID-19.In a video posted to the Instagram account of Cordero's wife, Amanda Kloots, the "Rambo" actor…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…