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HOUSTON — George Foreman is a name synonymous with boxing greatness, but in Houston’s Fifth Ward, he was something ... Longtime friend and Texas State Representative Harold Dutton Jr ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Residents in a Fifth Ward cancer cluster will soon be part of an inaugural cancer screening study that will be replicated across the country. Council Member Dr. Letitia ...

Houston’s latest cold front slipped through Tuesday evening, setting the stage for plunging temperatures and potentially dangerously low wind chill values all this week. Extreme cold alerts go into ...

HOUSTON — The Fifth Ward community can expect to see $20 million worth of change thanks to a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. It aims to tackle illegal dumping, air quality and a ...

“The most important thing about my becoming that person in the Ivy League is to remind people that I came from Sumpter Street in Fifth Ward [Houston ... home state of Texas to retire ...

Houston had several lengthy streaks come to an end Saturday evening at the Fertitta Center. Texas Tech, which lost its leading scorer and its coach early in the game, both of whom were ejected ...

Flames tore through a home on Texas Avenue in the city of South Houston, and one person died in a fire in the Greater Fifth Ward in northeast Houston. At the South Houston scene on Texas Street ...

But the wards live on as the names of some of Houston’s most iconic neighborhoods and communities of color, from Fifth Ward north of downtown ... was founded, when Texas lawmakers amended ...

Union Pacific began collecting soil samples at the Boyce-Dorian Park in Houston ... by Texas A&M University researchers deduced that toxic levels of lead found in the soil of some Fifth Ward ...

According to a new study by Texas A&M researchers, soil in Houston's Greater Fifth Ward has "significantly elevated levels of heavy metal contaminants." In fact, some samples of Fifth Ward soil ...

A study conducted by Texas A&M University researchers ... and investigations into the Kashmere Gardens and Fifth Ward neighborhoods of Houston, areas already burdened by cancer-causing chemicals ...