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HOUSTON (AP) — A United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Texas, was forced turn around Monday after one of the plane’s engines caught fire. The plane landed back at Bush Airport at 7:13 p.m., just 33 minutes after takeoff. The plane with engine trouble is scheduled to depart Bush Airport for Orlando at 7:20 a.m. Thursday. “United flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to an engine issue. We arranged for a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination, which departed for Fort Myers later that evening,” the airline said in a statement.

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☆ The oldest living person in Texas just turned 114: Here's why doctors say she's 'done everything right'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

And after celebrating her 114th birthday last week in Houston with five generations of her family, Francis earned the title of the oldest living person in Texas, according to local ABC station KTRK-TV. "I just thank the good Lord for keeping me," Francis told the news station. Still, her granddaughter, Ethel Harrison, told ABC 13 that she thinks lifestyle has a lot to do with Francis' longevity. She never did that," Harrison told ABC 13. And Dr. Holly Holmes, a geriatric physician, said Francis "has done everything right" for longevity, according to ABC 13.

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Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV, 25, returned home March 8, 2015, one day after he was reported missing, Lt. Christopher Zamora said in a news conference. While Houston officers had interacted since then with Farias and his mother, both provided fake names and dates of birth, misleading officers, he said. His mother “continued to deceive police by remaining adamant that Rudy was still missing,” he said. A billboard put up in the search for Rudy Farias is seen in this file photo. At times, other people saw Farias, Zamora indicated.

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☆ Rudy Farias: Missing Texas teen found alive after 8 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Melissa Alonso | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A Houston man who went missing as a teen more than eight years ago has been found safe, the Texas Center for the Missing said. Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV had been missing since March 6, 2015, according to a missing persons flyer. Someone called 911 after finding him unresponsive outside a church, with cuts and bruises, Farias’ mother told CNN affiliate KTRK. “After 8 long years, Rudy has been located safe,” said a Sunday tweet from the Texas Center for the Missing. He will only speak a few words at a time before going into a fetal position, Farias’ mother said.

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☆ Five People Killed in Texas Shooting; Authorities Searching for Suspect
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Police responded early Saturday to the scene of a shooting in Cleveland, Texas. Photo: /KTRK/Associated PressFive people were fatally shot, including an 8-year-old, in Cleveland, Texas, Friday night in an incident that began with a noise dispute, according to the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office. The suspected gunman hasn’t been found, authorities said. An arrest warrant has been issued for the suspect along with a $5 million bond.

☆ After a Texas family asked a neighbor to stop shooting a gun in his yard because their baby was trying to sleep, he came over and killed 5 people with an AR-15 style rifle, police say.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Police say a man shot and killed five people after they asked him to stop shooting from his porch. The victims had asked the suspected gunman to quiet down as they had a baby trying to sleep. In response, police say the man drunkenly went next door and killed five people with an AR-15-style rifle, ABC News reported. We have a young baby that's trying to go to sleep,'" Sheriff Greg Capers told KTRK. "When we got here, the two females in the bedroom were laying on top of two of three younger (surviving) children," Capers told KTRK.

☆ 2 Texas cheerleaders were shot in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one opened the door to the wrong vehicle. A suspect is under arrest
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Tina Burnside | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Authorities have arrested the man they say shot two teenage cheerleaders after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle as her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital – at least the third incident this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire. Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., 25, was taken into custody early Tuesday, the Elgin Police Department said in a news release later that morning. Officers responding just after midnight Tuesday to an H-E-B supermarket parking lot found two people in a vehicle who’d been struck by bullets, police said, citing preliminary reports. The supermarket manager witnessed the incident, and police have surveillance footage from the parking lot, could see the license plate on the suspect’s car and later observed him at his home, police said, according to a probable cause affidavit. Pedro Tello was still wearing the clothing that was observed by Elgin Detectives in the surveillance footage,” the affidavit states.

☆ Reported tornado causes damage east of Houston
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Strong winds damaged commercial buildings, homes and power lines in nearby Pasadena, a city southeast of Houston. Utility poles and power lines were downed, and several vehicles, including a trailer, were damaged or flipped over in a parking lot. A home is damaged in Pasadena, Texas, where a tornado was reported to have passed Tuesday. In Baytown, there were downed power lines and damage to homes and businesses, but no reports of serious injuries, said Baytown spokesperson Jason Calder. People cross under downed power lines where a tornado was reported on Jan. 24, 2023, in Pasadena, Texas.

☆ Texas man accused of slipping abortion drug in wife’s drinks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas grand jury has indicted a husband accused of slipping a medicine used for abortions into his wife’s drinks in hopes that it would end her pregnancy. Court records show he was originally arrested in May and released on a $30,000 bond. According to court documents, Herring’s wife told authorities her husband in March began lecturing her on hydration and offering water. Herring’s wife became suspicious, according to court records, and began refusing multiple other drinks her husband offered. She said she later found in the trash packaging for a drug that contains misoprostol, a medicine used to induce abortion.

☆ Malnourished Texas twins escaped handcuffs when boy found key and hid it in his mouth overnight, court records say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The siblings stated that they were starving,” the court records said. The teens were also beaten with extension cords, curtain rods and metal poles, according to court records. Terrell, the court records said, could be charged with continuous violence against the family. The twin boy’s left forearm was fractured from an older injury, court records said. Duncan was convicted in 2019 of cruelty to a juvenile by child desertion in the 19th Judicial District Court of East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana, court records said.

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