Many people are unaware that Planned Parenthood offers a variety of free or low-cost services to the local communities in which they operate, including yearly well-woman exams, healthy babies programs, breast cancer screenings, pap smears, cervical cancer treatments, access to all forms of birth control and educational information about men's and women's reproductive health. In the past year, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas provided 300 prenatal care exams for low-income Gulfton residents, treated......

An undercover cop shot a man in the leg during an investigation into car break-ins in southeast Houston this afternoon; the suspect reportedly rammed his car into a police car several times before the shooting The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research and Memorial Hermann will merge May 1, helping to save the struggling rehabilitation hospital A man walking along train tracks north of downtown was injured this morning when he was hit by a Union......