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Innovative Crowdsourcing of Tweets, Phones Can Give Early Warnings of Quakes, Floods
Your smartphone could save your life before disaster strikes. Researchers are turning smartphones and social media into early warning systems for earthquakes and floods.
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Labradoodle Fetches Hope For Girl In Long Term Treatment
For a small girl, Caydence Brannaman has defied long odds. Born ten weeks early with a hole in her upper heart chamber and Pulmonary hypertension, it...
Prison Program Produces Business Savvy Inmates And Huge Success Rates
The Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) believes that helping inmates prepare to start their own businesses when they leave prison will reduce the likelihood...
Andre Johnson Plays Santa Claus, Pays $16,266 for Poor Kids’ Shopping Sprees
"We'll have Fitzpatick's kid in here to add up the total," @kevincooper44. $16,266.26 is the total. #Texans pic.twitter.com/QzsOyWGPzt— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) December 2, 2014
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Fate Unites Two Boys Who Need New Hearts
Do you believe in fate? Soul mates? Divine Intervention?
Famed surfing dog Richochet, who rides the waves with disabled or special needs children and veterans,...
Strangers Pay Thousands to Restore Soldier’s Classic Car
For years, an Iraq war veteran had been paying little by little to have his classic 1965 Mustang restored. He bought the car in...
An NFL Player Who Knows How to Treat People (Like This Bullied Preteen)
J.J. Watt has never forgotten the challenges he faced growing up. Now, the Houston Texans' NFL football player is dedicated to helping other kids...
One Man’s Planting Equals More Monarch Butterflies
"Tom Landis planted a patch of milkweed the size of a card table last spring with seeds he collected himself, hoping his 'if-you-plant-it-they-will-come' project...
Minor League Ball Player’s First Home Run is Caught by Dad
A baseball player in the Houston Astros minor league, Conrad Gregor, hit his first Midwest League home run on Saturday night and the ball...
Rap Star Drake Flies to Texas Just to Visit Teen With Cancer
Well, Drake may have just officially won himself the title of sweetest rapper ever.
He flew to Texas to surprise 15-year-old Kennedy Brown, who was...
Students Design Aquarium Pumps to Save Babies’ Lives
Babies are surviving in the poorest parts of Africa thanks to the ingenuity of students in a Rice University design class. Faced with the...
Man Rescues Dying Dog From the Middle of a Busy Highway
When Rickey Young heard on the radio that there was a dog in the HOV lane on a Houston highway, he rushed over to...
How Much Longer Can One Man Feed Millions?
A second-generation rice farmer from Danbury, a tiny Texas town of 1700, is a local legend.
He’s a legend thanks to the almost six million...
Cop on Patrol Stops to Throw Football With Lonely Kid (WATCH)
Thousands of people have watched a police officer near Houston get out of his car to toss a football with a boy in a...
Engineering Students Design Robotic Arm for Teen With Brittle Bones
It was a big day for Dee Faught when a team of Rice University students gave him a helping hand. In fact, they gave...
TV Viewers Help Marine with Vandalized Car in Big Way
On Monday, the news on channel 2 in Houston featured a story about a former Marine whose car was senselessly vandalized, and now a...
Boy Finally Gets Autograph Then Gives it to Boy In Wheelchair
Kanye Ortiz loves the football players on the Houston Texan team, so his family showed up at their practice field to try to get...
Harvested Seaweed Could Help Protect Texas Shoreline Against Hurricanes
It can be a nuisance when seaweed piles up on the beaches after high tide, but the leafy, brown plants might be the key...
Father and Son Both Make Hole-in-One on Father’s Day
Collecting a hole-in-one on Father's Day is about as good as it gets for a golfing dad, unless his son gets one, too, right...
The Power of Spontaneous Community Caring
The Eastern Market neighborhood near Capitol Hill was the scene of a remarkable community rescue during a sudden eviction of one of their most...