Memorial Hermann Health System has named Dr. Benjamin Chu as its new president and CEO, replacing Dan Wolterman, who announced his retirement in October and has served as CEO since 2002. Chu currently serves as the executive vice president of Oakland, California-based Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan Inc. and group president for Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Georgia. He manages the health plan and hospital operations for 14 hospitals and 237 medical offices which services?

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner shared his views on Houston's energy-related job losses and on the city's role in stemming the blood flow.

When I was a little girl, I knew when it was rodeo season ? not because I was patiently awaiting the deep-fried everything and playing with goats at the petting zoo, which I definitely was ? but because on the Friday before the rodeo rolled out, I was dressed Texan to a T. I'd have tiny cowboy boots with a matching hat and a bandana around my neck; and a few years, my mom handmade my Western wear. While I might not still have her as my personal clothier, she instilled the tradition in me just?

Human communication is complex, but the first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word ?communication? is often spoken or written words. However, the words we speak and hear are just one way we communicate, and some studies show that most of our communication takes place through other means. Humans communicate in many different ways, such as verbal, nonverbal, body language and artistic communication, which is through images or music. The way we communicate with people affects all aspects?

Houston has many different chambers of commerce that identify with different geographic regions and demographics. Beginning this spring, the LGBT community will have one as well. Roughly 3.3 percent of the Greater Houston area identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a recent Gallup poll, but there is no chamber of commerce that represents and promotes LGBT-owned businesses, said Tammi Wallace, co-chair of the steering committee. "There's an LGBT chamber of commerce in?

Schouest, Bamdas, Soshea and BenMaier PLLC has merged with Houston-based law firm Fitzhugh & Elliott PC, effective Feb. 16, according to a statement. The two Houston-based firms will keep both of their offices, one in the Energy Corridor and the other in downtown Houston. The firm will retain the SBSB name and will have 31 lawyers, according to Susan Schmaeling, a spokeswoman for the firm. Thomas Fitzhugh and John Elliott will be partners at SBSB, the statement said. "This merger deepens and expands?

SAN ANTONIO ? Having watched the ball go through the rim and the net, the Rockets thought the basket counted. When it did not, they were never the same.

Houston's XFL Roughnecks showed off new uniforms at an official unveiling on Tuesday at The Whitehall hotel downtown.

SAN ANTONIO - Though coaches routinely point out that they had not previously seen the sort of defenses James Harden faces each night, with double-teams sent his way when he crosses midcourt, no one has the years in the NBA of Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, in his 24th season.

SAN ANTONIO - The Spurs on Tuesday ended a stretch in which they played every other day since Oct. 31, playing 19 games with little chance to work between games. The Rockets ended a similar stretch last week, but the difference between the Rockets ? with the NBA?s oldest, most experienced roster ? and the much younger Spurs was that the Rockets needed the rest days, the Spurs have needed time to work.

SAN ANTONIO - When asked if he had considered putting his best defensive lineup on the floor and figuring out how to score enough from there, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich indicated he might, if not for one issue.

Breaking down the University of Houston?s non-conference game against Texas State on Wednesday.

Review one lawyer's fight vs. Harris County probation officials.

WASHINGTON ? President Donald Trump?s motorcade was just pulling into the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Virginia on Saturday morning when news organizations ended days of waiting and declared that he had lost the presidency to Joe Biden.

Aides called Trump to let him know that their predictions over the past several days had come true: Every major news outlet had projected Biden to be the winner. But the president, who an hour earlier had said on Twitter that ?I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!,? was not surprised, they said. And he did not change his plans to go ahead with legal challenges to the election results that several of his own advisers warned him were long shots at best, or to play golf.

The aides said Trump had no plans to immediately deliver the kind of concession speech that has become traditional in past presidential elections, and his campaign vowed to continue waging the legal battle across the country. In a statement issued while he was still on the golf course, Trump said Biden was trying to ?falsely pose? as the winner.

?The simple fact is this election is far from over,? the president said, ?Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated.?

Trump?s advisers said the president has refused to acknowledge that he has lost, maintaining his baseless accusation that Democrats had stolen the election.

But they do not believe he will try in any way to block Biden from taking office, and said that if he has not delivered a formal concession speech by the time he departs, pressure may mount on his Republican allies, family members and friends to convince him that he must give in to the inevitable and let...

Experts and officials aren?t sure why fewer people are coming in to get tested; some say it?s because the public became put off by long lines and long waits for results.

The man died in a residential pool in the 2300 block of Maplecrest Drive, according to police.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Nobody else involved suffered life-threatening injuries.

The man was standing on a Nagle Street sidewalk when he was shot multiple times, according to police.