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The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
May 25–26, 2015 - Houston Memorial Day Flood Devastating storms floods most of the city. Within a nine-hour span from the night of May 25, 2015, to the morning of May 26, as much as 11 inches of rain fell on parts of the region. A local man died when his car was flooded.
Memorial Day has become synonymous these days with barbecues and great sales. But all the distractions can make it harder for many Americans to remember the reason for the 3-day weekend: to honor ...
We tracked the number of complaints to the city's 311 hotline, and you can now see the flooding hotspots in this interactive map:
From itty-bitty bottoms to designer tops, stars can't stop showing off their curves in bikinis. Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber kicked off 2024 with sizzling snaps from their tropical getaway ...
Allison causes an estimated $4.8 billion in damages, nearly all of it related to freshwater flooding in the Greater Houston region. [86] Tropical Storm Allison causes 23 deaths in the state, [ 89 ] and was the only non-hurricane strength storm to have its name retired until Tropical Storm Erika (did not affect the U.S.) in 2015.
More than 80,000 people were under flash flood warnings on Friday in Harris, Liberty and Montgomery counties, and officials in the waterlogged region urged residents to prepare for the flooding to ...