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Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner is carried into City Hall where he will lie in state in Houston, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Brett Coomer /Houston Chronicle via AP)

Houston pays tribute to the late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner as he lies in state

By Nadia Lathan - Associated Press

FILE - Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks during a news conference Nov, 6, 2021, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File)

Texas Democrat Rep. Sylvester Turner, 70, dies two months into first congressional term

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks during a news conference about voting rights Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

U.S. Rep. and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner dies at 70

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A prop skeleton dressed iin a "Creosote Killed Me" T-shirt sits in the middle of the seating during a community meeting put on by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, held at the Deluxe Theater Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Houston. Houston plans to spend millions of dollars to relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases, the city’s mayor announced Thursday, July 13, 2023. (Michael Wyke/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Houston to spend millions to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

File-Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks at free COVID-19 testing provided by United Memorial Medical Center at the Mexican Consulate Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Houston. Top officials in Houston are calling for the city to lock back down as area hospitals strain to accommodate the onslaught of patients sick with the new coronavirus. Mayor Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, both Democrats, said this weekend that a stay-at-home order is needed for America's fourth-largest city to cope with the surge of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Houston leaders call for city lockdown amid virus case surge

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FILE - In this June 28, 2020 file photo, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks in Houston. Houston officials have canceled the Texas GOP's in-person convention. They say the spread of the coronavirus made it impossible to hold the event as scheduled. Mayor Turner said Wednesday, July 8, 2020, that the city's lawyers exercised provisions in the contract that the Texas Republican Party signed to rent the downtown convention center for a three-day event to have started July 16. Virus cases have surged in Texas, particularly in the state's largest cities. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip File)

Judge refuses to order Houston to allow Texas GOP convention

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Authorities investigate the scene of a helicopter crash at an apartment complex in Houston, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says the helicopter was carrying a pilot and a tactical flight officer when it went down at an apartment complex in north Houston around 2 a.m. Saturday. The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

1 Houston police officer killed, 1 injured in copter crash

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Houston mayor denounces state’s plan to control Harvey aid

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In this aerial photo, water is slowly draining from the freeway after a water main break east of the location flooded all lanes, closing the freeway in both directions, at the intersection of 610 and Clinton Drive, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in east Houston. Businesses and schools shut down Thursday after a main line from a plant that supplies water to about half of Houston burst open, submerging vehicles on the flooded freeway. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Schools, businesses closed after Houston water main break

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Water rushes by a gas station at Clinton and N. Carolina in Houston after a broken water pipe starting flooding of East Loop 610 Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Water main break in Houston strands drivers, closes schools

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In this Sept. 2, 2019 photo, Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks as Tony Buzbee, left, listens during a mayoral candidate forum for the 2019 election in Houston. As Turner seeks a second term, he’s hoping to use residents’ antipathy toward President Donald Trump to help him beat Turner, his biggest challenger. Crimes rates, allegations of City Hall corruption and the pace of the city’s recovery after Hurricane Harvey are among the issues that have come up in the race. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Millionaire outsider forces runoff in Houston mayor race

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In this Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 photo candy is thrown from the This and That Creative Corner float during The &quot;Original&quot; MLK, Jr. Parade in Houston. For more than two decades, competing MLK Day parades have been held in Houston. This year, the city of Houston threw its official support behind one parade, the 41st annual “Original” MLK, Jr. Parade, hoping the city could unite behind only one parade. But organizers of the other parade, the 25th annual MLK Grande Parade, will still be holding its event and they say they have no plans to stop having their own parade. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

MLK Day parade rivalry divides Houston

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 photo candy is thrown from the This and That Creative Corner float during The &quot;Original&quot; MLK, Jr. Parade in Houston. For more than two decades, competing MLK Day parades have been held in Houston. This year, the city of Houston threw its official support behind one parade, the 41st annual “Original” MLK, Jr. Parade, hoping the city could unite behind only one parade. But organizers of the other parade, the 25th annual MLK Grande Parade, will still be holding its event and they say they have no plans to stop having their own parade. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Houston home to rival Martin Luther King Day parades

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Mayor, others push back on proposed robot brothel in Houston

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks with the media during a business forum in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. The forum was attended by business representatives from Houston and Havana, to explore opportunities in areas of health, sports, energy, commerce and art, according to local state-run media Cubadebate. (Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate via AP)

Houston sex robot brothel meets opposition from Mayor Sylvester Turner

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Houston Zoo prepares for 100th anniversary, $150M in updates

By CRAIG HLAVATY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2017 file photo, Juan Minutella opens the back door while helping friend Gaston Kirby collect the last of his belongings from his flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Houston has approved a new regulation dictating how high new homes and other structures must be elevated to avoid floodwaters. The City Council approved the rule Wednesday, April 4, 2018. It comes in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which flooded thousands of homes in the nation's fourth-largest city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip File)

Houston approves new post-Harvey flood construction rule

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Historic bricks laid by ex-slaves in Houston reinstalled

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Houston mayor: Recovery from Harvey not fast enough

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Voters approve $1B bond measure to shore up Houston pensions

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