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Teens certified as adults will go to Harris youth facility Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:26 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Houston teens being prosecuted as adults will move from the county jail to the juvenile detention center, the Harris County Juvenile Board ...

Harris County jail to send dangerous juveniles to detention center Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 09:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Houston teens being prosecuted as adults will move from the county jail to the juvenile detention center, the Harris County Juvenile ...

Harris County sues over rundown Sharpstown condos Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:16 p.m., Thursday, May 17, 2012 Charging that it is a hotbed of gang and criminal activity, the Harris County Attorney's Office is using a powerful state law to force its residents to ...

Nearly 116,000 cast early ballots in Harris County Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:43 p.m., Friday, May 25, 2012 Nearly 116,000 Harris County residents have made their selections in next week's primaries through early voting and returns from a record batch of mail-in ...

Woman again accused of breaking sex offender registry rules Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 07:57 p.m., Friday, May 25, 2012 For the second time in three years, a Pasadena woman has been jailed on charges of failing to register as a sex offender, according to the Harris ...

Eric Harris, 37, faces complaints of first degree rape by instrumentation, indecent or lewd acts with a child under 16, two counts of forcible oral sodomy and possession of obscene materials.

Are the decision-makers entrusted with determining the future of energy infrastructure operating under an outdated understanding of the cost-competitiveness of solar power? In many cases, the answer is yes, according to a paper released last week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). In ?Reconsidering the Economics of Photovoltaic Power,? (PDF) BNEF

GOP outpaces Dems in early Harris County voting Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 09:21 p.m., Friday, May 18, 2012 Republicans cast twice as many ballots as their Democratic counterparts through the first five days of early voting in Harris County, a trend officials and ...

Republicans outpace Democrats in early Harris County voting Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 07:09 p.m., Friday, May 18, 2012 Republicans cast twice as many ballots as their Democratic counterparts through the first five days of early voting in Harris County, a trend ...