HOUSTON — Residents of Acres Homes gathered Tuesday evening to honor the late Sylvester Turner with a memorial vigil held at ...

On Saturday, late Houston mayor and congressman Sylvester Turner was laid to rest during services at the Church Without Walls ...

Man arrested 2 months after woman killed in front of 3-year-old son Houston police looking for man tied to deadly shooting in Acres Homes Man charged in deadly shooting of family member in Acres ...

U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, who rose from a child in Acres Homes to serve as Houston’s mayor for eight years and was elected to Congress last year, has died. He was 70. His death was confirmed ...

to make sure Houston would not be, as he put it, a city of haves and have-nots. He remained, until his final days serving in Congress, a kid from Acres Homes. Always ready to cut the rug with a ...

He was born and raised in Houston’s Acres Homes neighborhood, Turner earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Houston and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK ... It's the risk the 21-year-old Acres Homes native has anxiously suited up for and willingly faced since he was 15 years old. As a professional bull rider, he has ...

HOUSTON — Sylvester Turner ... what are we going to do to help those people out there whose homes are flooded?’ That’s all he ever thought about," former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett ...