Severe thunderstorms are firing up in parts of Texas and could trigger high winds, hail and potential tornadoes.

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Lamar Jackson broke the NFL career rushing record for quarterbacks in Baltimore’s 31-2 victory over the Houston Texans on Wednesday, bolstering his case for MVP as the Ravens moved closer to the AFC North title.

Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson passed Michael Vick for the most yards rushing by a quarterback in NFL history in a 31-2 win over the Houston Texans in Wednesday.

Beyoncé provided more excitement than either game during Netflix’s NFL debut on Christmas Day.

Texans receiver Tank Dell has been released after an overnight stay in the hospital and was traveling back to Houston on Sunday after sustaining a severe knee injury in Saturday’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was starting and wide receiver Marquise Brown was active for their game against the Houston Texans.

A a person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Gold Glove first baseman Christian Walker and the Houston Astros have agreed to a $60 million, three-year contract.

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas has been returned to Mexico after serving a U.S. sentence and was quickly re-arrested and sent to a maximum security prison to face Mexican charges.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Grant DuBose remained in the hospital but had movement in all extremities after being stretchered off the field following a scary helmet-to-helmet hit against the Houston Texans on Sunday.

Miami receiver Grant DuBose was taken off the field on a stretcher after a helmet-to-helmet hit against the Houston Texans on Sunday.

Police in Houston say two teens were killed and four were injured — including a 13-year-old girl — in a shooting at a makeshift club.

Winning the NBA Cup won’t bring a championship parade to Oklahoma City or Houston or Atlanta or Milwaukee.

A Texas man was arrested for setting a house on fire while three children were inside, according to police.

The Chicago Cubs have acquired All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker in a trade with the Houston Astros, paying a big price for one of baseball’s best hitters.

Golden State coach Steve Kerr said a foul call against his team that led to a loss to Houston on Wednesday night in the NBA Cup was “unconscionable” and that an elementary school referee wouldn’t have made it.

Lawyers in the Alex Jones bankruptcy case are now in discussions on what could happen next after a federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet.

A yearslong effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas has recently shown signs of life, but state lawmakers have consistently put up roadblocks to keep it from happening.

The temporary injunction issued Monday would affect roughly 90,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in Texas.

The rapper Jay-Z revealed that he had anonymously sued the woman’s lawyer, Texas-based Tony Buzbee, last month, alleging he was trying to blackmail the rapper by threatening to make the rape allegation public if he didn’t agree to a legal settlement.

Trey Martinez Fischer, a San Antonio representative in the Texas House, was replaced on Wednesday as chair of the Democratic caucus.

NBC Sports and Peacock will present an alternate broadcast featuring elements of the EA Sports Madden 25 video game during a Dec. 21 matchup between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs.

Three American citizens, among one of them a Houston man, arrived in San Antonio after years of imprisonment in China on Wednesday night.

A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press left-hander Yusei Kikuchi and the Los Angeles Angels have agreed to a $63 million, three-year contract.

Week 12 was filled with sloppy play around the NFL, leading to some upsets and surprising outcomes.

Extreme weather is making power outages longer and more frequent across the U.S. People with health conditions who depend on medical devices powered by electricity are particularly vulnerable.

El gobernador Greg Abbott quiere saber cuánto gastan los hospitales en el cuidado de inmigrantes indocumentados. Los hospitales no deben negar atención en ningún caso.

Houston visits Dallas with the NFL’s two Texas teams having just one victory between them over the past month.

Beyoncé is coming to your home on Christmas — provided you have Netflix and are tuning in to the Ravens-Texans game.

William J. Brennan High School’s Kingston Flemings, one of the best high school basketball prospects in the country, announced that he will be playing college basketball at the University of Houston.

The first Michelin Guide Texas was released this week, and it included 117 restaurants spanning 26 different cuisines.

The Houston Astrodome has been in limbo, waiting for its chance at a second life since being shuttered more than 15 years ago.

A Houston nonprofit announced its plan to revitalize the historic Astrodome on Wednesday.

Two men were arrested in connection with an attempted ATM burglary early Wednesday morning on the South Side.

The NBA Cup semifinals are set.

Kansas remained atop the first Associated Press men’s college basketball poll of the regular season after winning a matchup of basketball bluebloods.

A flight carrying the No. 11 Auburn men's basketball team was grounded shortly after takeoff on Friday after two players got into a fight onboard, according to multiple reports.

The Houston Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of their firefighters who died on the job.

Jalen Green and Fred VanVleet had 21 points each and the Houston Rockets built a huge lead early and coasted to a 127-100 win over the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday night.

In a new video posted early Election Day, Beyoncé channels Pamela Anderson in the television program “Baywatch” – red one-piece swimsuit and all – and asks viewers to vote.

Republicans have taken the Senate majority and are fighting to keep control of the House.

The 75-year-old coach missed Saturday night’s win in the Frost Bank Center against the Minnesota Timberwolves due to an undisclosed illness.

Microsoft on Wednesday reported its quarterly sales grew 16% to $65.6 billion as the company sought to assure investors its huge spending on artificial intelligence is paying off.

With stops in Houston and the Rio Grande Valley, Allred hopes to make the race competitive by running up the tally with the core of the Democratic base.

The Texas Tribune examined the state’s housing affordability crisis and why the state has struggled to build enough homes to meet demand.

The Indianapolis Colts are benching Anthony Richardson to start Joe Flacco at quarterback on Sunday at Minnesota, two people with knowledge of the decision tell The Associated Press.

Five people were charged in connection with the scheme. Investigators say aspiring teachers would pay for help cheating in the certification test.

Beyoncé has spoken at a Houston rally for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, telling the crowd: “I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician.

Two Texas cities hosted presidential nominees Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Friday as the candidates continue to close out their campaigns in the Nov. 5 election.

Harris talked about reproductive rights to a stadium full of supporters in Houston. In Austin, Trump stumped to supporters and reporters at a private jet terminal and appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

LaMelo Ball looked like the superstar that nagging ankle injuries have kept him from being for most of the last two seasons in Charlotte’s opener Wednesday night.

The South Texas city has hired a consulting firm for $200,000 to provide an interim director for the utility amid a restructuring of the department.

Officials say four people aboard a tour helicopter were killed when it crashed into a radio tower in Houston and burst into flames.

The New York Liberty finally have a WNBA championship after falling in the title round in their previous five appearances.

Brandon McManus kicked a 45-yard field goal as time expired in his debut with Green Bay to lift the Packers past the Houston Texans 24-22.

The family of a 3-year-old girl who lost four fingers in an escalator incident at a Houston area H-E-B filed a lawsuit against the grocery company and TK Elevator Corporation, according to a press release by Attorney Ben Crump.

The San Antonio Spurs dropped their preseason finale to the Houston Rockets, 129-107, on Thursday night.

In the first test of Senate Bill 14, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused Dr. May Lau of providing testosterone to at least 21 teens.

A revered soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston’s life was celebrated nearly a week after her death at 91.

The Texas Education Agency found that checks mailed to Miles’ charter school network in Colorado were eventually deposited into the network’s Texas account.

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The NFL and its players association say the required steps were followed when Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was evaluated for a concussion last week at Houston and cleared to return to the game.

A Texas sheriff says two workers at a Houston-area oil refinery were killed after hydrogen sulfide leaked at the plant.

A Houston-area man who was wanted for an armed robbery led deputies on a chase in a stolen 18-wheeler before he crashed into a storage facility in Boerne.

A developer looking to build a massive development in the urban core appears to be including hospitality in the mix.

Adair Concepts, a Houston-based restaurant group, announced this week that they are opening three new locations in Texas, including two in San Antonio.

Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas.

C.J. Stroud threw for 345 yards and two touchdowns, capped by a 1-yard pass to Dare Ogunbowale with 18 seconds left, to give the Houston Texans a 24-20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

Christian Pavon narrowly made a 24-yard field goal with six seconds remaining for Sam Houston’s first lead of the game and the Bearkats held on for a 40-39 win over Texas State.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment was stolen from Tejano band Grupo Siggno on San Antonio’s southeast side earlier this week.

A former Houston police officer has been convicted of murder in the 2019 deaths of a couple during a drug raid at their home.

Owen McCown threw three touchdown passes and UTSA rolled to a 45-7 victory over Houston Christian.

A fire that burned for four days after a pipeline explosion in the Houston suburbs burned out Thursday after the once-towering blaze put hundreds of nearby homes under evacuation orders.

Texas hasn’t increased Medicaid rates for inpatient health care at private hospitals in 16 years, falling behind other states.

Mike Morath made the recommendation as concerns rise that phones are harmful to students’ mental health and distract them from learning.

A pipeline fire that forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in the Houston suburbs is burning for a third day, with officials saying they don’t expect it to be extinguished until sometime Thursday evening.

Whitney Houston’s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall.

Firefighters are battling a massive pipeline fire in suburban Houston that sparked grass fires and damaged a nearby park.

Caleb Williams and Chicago’s offense was bailed out by defense and special-teams scoring to get a win over Tennessee in their opener last week.

Former NFL running back Adrian Peterson has been ordered by a Texas judge to turn over personal assets to help pay a debt that has ballooned to more than $12 million.

What will it cost to build a new Spurs arena and an entertainment district in downtown San Antonio? Emails from the city show an ambitious price tag as the city tries get the Spurs back to their roots at Hemisfair.

Pavin Smith homered in first three at-bats for his first multi-home run game and drove in a career-high eight runs, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks rout the Houston Astros 12-6 on Sunday night to end a three-game losing streak.

The National Weather Service says a tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane.

After identifying flaws in the state’s air monitoring, the Tribune hosted workshops to inform Houston Ship Channel communities.

Houston businessman Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale was hospitalized Saturday with what he described as “cognitive” issues.

Framber Valdez pitched seven no-hit innings and Jose Altuve hit a game-ending RBI double in the ninth to lift the Houston Astros to a 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals.

Sometimes life surprises us in the most unexpected ways, weaving moments of joy, connection, and a sense of divine timing into our lives. On Saturday, August 24th, I experienced such a moment at a Houston-area Chick-fil-A, a place that has been a constant on my grief journey.

The Houston Democrat lost her seat amid backlash from primary voters over her support for a GOP bill barring transition-related care for minors.

The AG’s office sought to depose the leader of Team Brownsville, which provides water, shelter and basic necessities to asylum-seeking migrants.

A former employee of a Mississippi jail has been arrested and charged in the June escape of an inmate who fled to Chicago.

Harvey made landfall as a category four hurricane on August 25, 2017 near Rockport

Paxton’s office claimed the group broke rules prohibiting political activity by nonprofits, but the judge rejected the case outright.

Carter will run against two Republicans for her mother’s seat to hold for a few weeks before the winner of the general election takes over.

In many communities people turn to diesel or gasoline generators for temporary power when extreme weather brings power outages.

The Houston Democrat lost her seat after backlash for voting with Republicans to ban transition-related care for minors.

A man wanted on murder and armed robbery charges has been taken into custody after a 15-hour standoff with police at a Chicago restaurant just blocks from the Democratic National Convention.

Houston’s Justin Verlander is scheduled to come off the injured list and start the finale of a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday.

Republican gains among Latino voters in urban areas could spell big trouble for Democrats’ hopes of turning Texas blue.

The request came from a local pastor who is part of a group that trains people to “defend their freedom and liberty.” Other faith leaders have pushed back.