University of Houston News

Because hospitality establishments have a certain amount of cash on hand, agents and cashiers face the danger of robberies.

The Texas Attorney General's Office has announced a $4.5 million settlement of its lawsuit against the Conn's appliance chain.

Texas' schools of education generally are doing a poor job of training prospective teachers, according to a preliminary study already drawing scorn from many college deans.

Normally, Friday the 13th has an ominous reputation, but in 2009, it was a day that told the Greater Houston area how lucky it is.

LyondellBasell, along with its sizable Houston operations, could wind up under the control of Reliance Industries Limited, a fast-growing Indian firm that has offered to buy the bankrupt chemical giant once it emerges from Chapter 11.

David Elder, a native of Houston, Texas, turned a natural talent for tumbling into a career on the stage.

It's fitting that the day most of us associate with massive quantities of good food also is one of the busiest running days of the year.

Hurricane Katrina offered a unique opportunity for University of Houston drug researchers to examine how disaster impacted the health of black substance abusers.

"There are some behaviors that consumers try to limit but have trouble doing so," write authors Parthasarathy Krishnamurthy and Sonja Prokopec .

Superconductivity physicist Paul Chu is returning to the University of Houston after working overseas for most of the decade.

"When the United States was formed, Alexander Hamilton reiterated a trenchant warning that 'the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, [has] been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instrument of tyranny.' His warning remains relevant today, and the consequences of arbitrary detention, whether or not tyrannical in purpose, still threaten ...

The Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce recognized leaders from across the Americas at its 26th annual Triunfando awards ceremony this weekend.

Some of the TV networks aired the President's speech at the memorial -- and nothing more -- and then returned to their soaps.

Two of the biggest complaints about driving around Houston are too much traffic and too many billboards.

LATINA Style Magazine, the premier magazine addressing the needs of established Latina and women entrepreneurs in the U.S., is coming to Houston, celebrating the finale of the 11th Annual LATINA Style Business Series Tour .

This is the "have-it-your-way" era, a time when everything from fast food to four-course meals can be customized, personalized and engineered to your specifications.

Ralph Parker paints peaceful, serene images of the rural landscape. Working exclusively in gouache, and using a painting technique developed over more than two years, he produces works that resemble small oil paintings.

A new report shows foreclosures across Texas have been down for the last month, but economists and real estate agents claim the worst is still to come.

Denton city officials are concerned the move of several University of North Texas system employees from Denton to downtown Dallas could severely impact the university's partnership with and future in the city.

"My grandfather for one, my uncles have served, my older brother served during the Clinton administration." Cadet Brian Campbell is with the ARMY ROTC at the University of Houston, who's due to become a Commissioned Filed Artillery officer as soon as he graduates in December.