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A federal judge blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement's attempt to hastily deport witnesses of a fatal shooting in Houston, according to reports Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison issued an order on Monday blocking the deportation of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego and ordered ICE agents to keep him in the Southern District of Texas, CBS News reported. Pliego was a witness in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant killed by ICE agents earlier this month.

Salgado Araujo was fatally shot after ICE agents rammed his van, according to witnesses. Agents didn't have body cameras on, and little video footage captured the events leading up to his death. However, Salgado Araujo was transporting three men in his van when he was killed, and their attorneys have denied ICE's account of events....

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Texas’ most populous cities lost roughly 88 billion gallons of water last year because of aging water infrastructure and extreme heat, costing them millions of dollars and straining the state’s water supply, according to self-reported water loss audits.

The documents show that bigger municipalities are not immune to water issues often seen in smaller, less-resourced communities around the state. All but one big city saw increased water loss from last year's audits....

This article first appeared on Houston Landing and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

Todo cambió. Everything changed.

That’s how Arturo Monsiváis described life this year for his fifth-grade son, who attends Houston ISD’s Raul Martinez Elementary School. Teachers raced through rapid-fire lessons. Students plugged away at daily quizzes. Administrators banned children from chatting in the hallways....

This article first appeared on Houston Landing and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

Houston leaders vowed to prepare for the next big storm after Hurricane Harvey flooded thousands of people out of their homes.

When a rare derecho slammed the region earlier this month, however, officials and residents alike were caught off guard....

This article was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

U.S. Rep Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, is undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer, the congresswoman shared in a Sunday statement on social media platform X.

“My doctors have confirmed my diagnosis for pancreatic cancer,” Jackson Lee said. “I am currently undergoing treatment to battle this disease that impacts tens of thousands of Americans every year.”...

This article first appeared on Houston Landing and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

Channelview High School senior Danielle Stephen trudged out of the assistant principal’s office, defeated and desperate. In the fall of 2021, an administrator at the east Harris County campus had just suspended Stephen, sending her home for breaking a rule requiring students to carry backpacks made of see-through material.

But Stephen, who had lived on the streets for much of the past three years, didn’t have a home to go to. The 100-liter camouflage hiking backpack that got her kicked off campus held all her possessions. And she would now miss lunch at school, the place she relied on for hot meals. ...