Texas college student Robert Redus shot and killed after traffic stop goes badly
A San Antonio university student was charging toward an officer with his hand raised when he was fatally shot during a traffic stop, authorities said Monday. University of the Incarnate Word student Robert Redus More...
Tom Wagner falls asleep on plane trip to California, awakens inside locked plane at Houston
Airline investigators seeking answers after a man traveling from Louisiana to California was left behind and locked inside of the United Airlines jet during a layover in Houston, Texas. Tom Wagner says he fell asleep More...
Winter Jam 2014 artists, lineup announced: Newsboys, Lecrae, Tenth Avenue North top lineup
The Winter Jam east coast tour lineup was announced Monday evening and fans are clamoring over the lineup and tour dates. Here’s the East Coast lineup: Newsboys, Lecrae, Tenth Avenue North, Thousand Foot More...
Ted Cruz gets standing ovation back home in Texas, death threats on twitter by Troy Gilmore
The polarizing life of Ted Cruz just became a bit stranger and possibly more dangerous as the Senator has now received death threats. While a Daily Beast contributor Dean Obeidallah tweets about Ted Cruz and John More...
There was ‘most definitely’ a dengue fever outbreak in Houston in 2003: Baylor researcher
As was reported last week, there was a fascinating retrospective study published in the journal, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, where the Baylor College of Medicine research team led by Dr. Kristy Murray More...
New radio show, ‘Outbreak News This Week’ to premiere Saturday on the Tan Talk Network
The Global Dispatch is proud to announce its next media venture- a new, niche radio program geared toward news and information about infectious diseases. The show, Outbreak News This Week will feature the latest More...
Baylor researchers discover dengue virus in Houston: Study
A retrospective study analyzing blood samples in Houston, Texas reveals that the virus that causes dengue fever was locally acquired, according to researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Photo/CDC-James More...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia notes capitalism ‘more Christian than socialism’
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has riled critics, allegedly mixing “church and state” is some of his recent comments. Speaking at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, Texas he claimed that More...
Joshua Broussard dead in Houston school stabbing by Luis Alonzo Alfaro which left three others injured
A fight inside a Houston-area high school escalated into a series of stabbings Wednesday that left a 17-year-old student dead and three others wounded, sheriff’s officials said. Josh Broussard The stabbings More...
‘Left wing’ activist infiltrates George Zimmerman supporters with ‘Racist and Proud’ sign
A photo from the Houston pro-Zimmerman counter-rally of the NBPP anti-Zimmerman rally picked up by the AP shows a woman holding a sign that read, “Racist & Proud.” Now it’s been revealed that the woman More...
Houston woman shoots man, Louis Daniel, at gas station after sexual advances, takes cell phone photo calling it self defense
A woman is being held by the Houston Police Department, because she’s accused of shooting a man, which was all caught by the service station’s surveillance camera. (watch the video below) According to Houston More...
Emory releases new national data on AIDSVu, the interactive national HIV mapping tool
The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University launched its annual update of AIDSVu, including new interactive online maps that show the latest HIV prevalence data for 20 U.S. cities by ZIP code or census More...
Ana Trujillo, Texas woman faces murder charges after stabbing man to death with stiletto heel
A Texas man is dead and a woman is facing murder charges for a stabbing the man to death with a stiletto shoe. Ana Trujillo Police in Houston say the suspect, Ana Lilia Trujillo, age 44, used one of the pointy-heeled More...
Alabama ‘mystery respiratory illness cluster’: H7N9 avian flu and novel coronavirus ruled out
The mysterious cluster of respiratory illnesses in southeast Alabama that hospitalized seven people, killing two is not a mystery anymore as the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) and the Houston County More...
VIDEO: Houston Astros fan witnesses snow cone vendor bringing the food into the bathroom
In a most foul situation, a baseball fan at the Minute Maid Park in Houston witnessed and made a cell phone video of a snow cone vendor bringing his wares inside the bathroom stall while he conducted his business. Image/Video More...
Ron Paul responds to Ben Bernanke’s testimony to Joint Economic Committee
Federal Reserve Chariman, Ben Bernanke, gave testimony on the U.S. economy to the congressional Joint Economic Committee today. In his testimony, Bernanke testified to the current economic conditions, fiscal More...
Bryce Reed, EMT at Texas plant explosion, charged after police found IED
A first responder who helped treat victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last month was arrested and charged Friday with possessing an explosive device. The arrest came on the same day that Texas More...
Giant African Land Snail reportedly found in Houston, researcher warns of rat lungworm risk
A Houston homeowner in west Houston spotted a big snail in her backyard garden and took a photo of it. She notified workers at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center who deal with invasive plants. They contacted More...
HAART appears to protect against heart damage: NIH
For children who have had HIV-1 infection since birth, the combination drug therapies now used to treat HIV appear to protect against the heart damage seen before combination therapies were available, according More...
WNBA Number 1 draft pick, Brittney Griner, talks about her sexuality
The 6′ 8″ Baylor standout and number 1 pick in the WNBA draft Monday, Brittney Griner is headed to the Phoenix Mercury. However, interviews with discussions of her sexuality and her decision to “come More...
