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Rape threat roils Houston ballot campaign on transgender bathroom access

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 21, 2015 file photo, a man urges people to vote against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance outside an early voting center in Houston. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, Houston voters repealed the nondiscrimination law. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

Marijuana, transgender issue top ballot initiatives in low-key election

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican presidential candidate, shakes hands with the Rev. Pat Robertson, right, after a presidential candidate forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in this Oct. 23, 2015, file photo. The outside political group supporting Jeb Bush’s bid for president with tens of millions of dollars in television advertising is considering placing organizing staff in Iowa and New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Jeb Bush super PAC considering staff for early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire

By Thomas Beaumont and Julie Bykowicz - Associated Press

A man urges people to vote against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance outside an early voting center in Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. The contested ordinance is a broad measure that would consolidate existing bans on discrimination tied to race, sex, religion and other categories in employment, housing and public accommodations, and extend such protections to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Showdown in Houston over LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance

By JUAN A. LOZANO and DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

A Houston coalition failed on Friday to submit enough signatures to place a repeal measure for a transgender-rights ordinance on the ballot. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Houston ‘bathroom bill’: Transgender rights movement seeks red-state ballot win

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Proposition 1 allows voters to decide the fate of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, the hotly contested law pushed by Houston Mayor Annise Parker, a Democrat, and passed by the Houston City Council last year. The law was moved to the Nov. 3 ballot after a signature-gathering campaign that went to the Texas Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

Houston transgender bathroom bill debate centers on differing definitions of ‘men’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Houston Astros' Evan Gattis, right, runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run off Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Jered Weaver (36) during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Houston. Colby Rasmus scored on Gattis' homer. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Weaver struggles as Angels lose to Astros 6-3

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Houston Astros starting pitcher Dallas Keuchel throws against the Los Angeles Angels during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Gattis, Correa power Astros over Angels 6-3

By BERNARDO FALLAS - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush arrives in Mackinac Island, Mich., for the 2016 Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Friday, Sept. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Jeb Bush: DREAMERS should get pathway to citizenship

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

An emergency personnel looks inside a school bus after the bus went off a Houston freeway on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. The Houston Independent School District says a girl died in Tuesday morning’s accident. (Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Houston school bus crash kills 2 students, 3 people hurt

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Flowers and eight balloons are seen at a house where eight people were killed on Aug. 8 in Houston. A family of six children and two parents were handcuffed and fatally shot in the head at a Houston home by a man with a violent criminal history who had previously been in a relationship with the mother and had a dispute with her, authorities said. David Conley, 48, was charged with capital murder in the deaths. (Associated Press)

Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities collects ideas to save children

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Shannon J. Miles, 30, is walked out of the Harris County Sheriff's Department in Houston on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015. Prosecutors on Saturday charged Miles with capital murder in the killing of a uniformed sheriff's deputy who was gunned down from behind while filling his patrol car with gas. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Shannon J. Miles, suspect in ambush of Houston-area deputy, held without bond

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Houston Astros' Mike Fiers follows through on a pitch against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the first inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Mike Fiers throws no-hitter in Astros’ victory over Dodgers

By Kristie Rieken - Associated Press

A gender-neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt., is seen here in 2007. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Houston council moves transgender ‘bathroom bill’ to November ballot

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this July 10, 2015, file frame from dashcam video provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Trooper Brian Encinia arrests Sandra Bland after she became combative during a routine traffic stop in Waller County, Texas. (Texas Department of Public Safety via AP, File)

Sandra Bland’s family sues state trooper, wants answers

By Michael Graczyk - Associated Press

Houston Mayor Annise Parker (Associated Press) **FILE**

Texas Supreme Court suspends Houston’s ‘bathroom bill,’ sets up ballot fight

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2013, file photo, Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, right, talks to St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay, left, and second baseman Daniel Descalso before an exhibition spring training baseball game in Jupiter, Fla. Major League Baseball says it is cooperating with a federal investigation into an illegal breach of the Astros' internal operations database, amid a report that the Cardinals were responsible for the hack. The New York Times, citing unnamed law enforcement officials, reported Tuesday, June 16, 2015 , that the FBI and Justice Department are investigating whether Cardinals' front-office officials are responsible for the effort to steal information about player personnel. The The teams were rivals in the National League Central until Houston moved to the American League in 2012. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Report: Cardinals allegedly accessed Astros’ player information system

By R.B. Fallstrom and Jim Salter - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, James Boysen is interviewed in his hospital bed at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston. Texas doctors say he received the world's first skull and scalp transplant from a human donor to help heal a large head wound from cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Texas doctors do first skull-scalp transplant

By Marilynn Marchione - Associated Press

Flood waters overrun the banks of the bayou in downtown Houston, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Floodwaters kept rising Tuesday across much of Texas as storms dumped almost another foot of rain on the Houston area, stranding hundreds of motorists and inundating the famously congested highways that serve the nation’s fourth-largest city. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Floods in vulnerable Houston no surprise, despite controls

By Michael Graczyk - Associated Press

Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes (40) shoots against Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) during the second half of Game 5 of the NBA basketball Western Conference finals in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Warriors eliminate Rockets, end 40-year NBA Finals drought

By Antonio Gonzalez - Associated Press