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Looking for flu symptoms is consuming Dr. Richard Honaker's practice. He says this week, the workload multiplied 10-fold. "It's going from about four per week to about 40 per day," said Honaker. That increase is blamed on two things. First, the most common flu strain is resistant to Tamiflu, the most prescribed treatment....

The Houston Police Department is considering changes — possibly even expansion — to its red-light camera program after a city-commissioned study showed that crashes went up at intersections where the devices have been installed. “What we’re concerned about is safety, safety, safety at these intersections,” said Executive Assistant...

Texas child advocates said Wednesday that the state could add 100,000 youngsters to the rolls of the Children's Health Insurance Program without a huge budget hit, now that the popular federal program has been renewed. The Texas Finish Line Campaign, a coalition of three advocacy groups, urged the Legislature to expand the program by letting...

The Obama administration is expected to impose a cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money, according to people familiar with the plan. Executives would also be prohibited from receiving any bonuses above their base pay, except for normal stock dividends. President Obama and Treasury...

More than a dozen Houston school district employees are getting a lesson in the zero-tolerance policies typically applied to students as they await court hearings on drug charges that could land them in jail. While most of the teachers are charged with possessing pot in their cars at school, a few face time behind bars after police said they...

The roughly $800 billion stimulus package moving through Congress could create as many as 286,000 jobs in Texas, according to an estimate released Tuesday by the White House. The figures came out on the same day that senators attempted, but failed, to boost highway spending from $27 billion to $40 billion in their version of the stimulus....

Danny Bridges stood near the back of the courtroom before the opening of the murder trial, glowering at the man accused of stabbing his daughter 11 times. “I didn’t want to see him again,” Bridges said Tuesday, staring at Jeremias Fuentes, who is accused of killing 22-year-old Katherine Ann Bridges on Nov. 25, 2007. Outside the...

Senate Democratic leaders conceded Tuesday that they don’t have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide an immediate boost to the economy. The legislation represents the first major test for President Barack Obama and an...

During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the demons of Washington, bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his Inaugural Address a “new era of responsibility.” What he did not talk much about were the asterisks. The exceptions that went unmentioned now include a pair of...

A jury took less than two hours Monday to convict Kimberly Dawn Trenor of capital murder in the slaying of her 2-year-old daughter, known as Baby Grace until her body was identified. The seven-woman, five man jury took about one hour and 45 minutes to convict Trenor after hearing five days of testimony. Trenor will receive an automatic life...