Fort Bend commissioners approve increased budget with lower tax …
Sep 30, 2024 · The Fort Bend County Commissioners Court last week passed a total $731.6 million budget for the 2024-25 that lowered the property tax rate during a time of increased property values while also raising commissioners' salaries, a moved opposed by one member.
George indicted for misdemeanor in alleged fake hate scheme
Sep 26, 2024 · Fort Bend County Judge KP George, the county's top elected official, has been indicted on a misdemeanor charge stemming from a months-long investigation that has already resulted in the indictment on several felony and misdemeanor counts of his former chief of staff. After being briefly arrested on Thursday and having been released on a ...
George's attorney seeks quashing of indictment, citing recent …
Oct 8, 2024 · UPDATE: A hearing in the motion is set for October 21. An attorney for Fort Bend County Judge KP George has filed a motion seeking that his recent indictment on a misdemeanor charge which alleges he knew about and possibly participated in a "fake hate" scheme, stating that the indictment was improper under a recent ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
George being investigated for participation in fake hate scheme
Sep 20, 2024 · HIs Democratic colleague, Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter McCoy, has previously called on Patel to withdraw. Fort Bend County Judge KP George, the county's top elected official, is being investigated for participating in a social media campaign involving a former employee's posting of false racist messages during George's 2022 reelection campaign.
Review: 'Twelfth Night' brings Shakespeare back to the George in …
Oct 7, 2024 · Back in August, I wrote a column about seeing the latest iteration of the Houston Shakespeare Festival at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park. In the column, I waxed philosophically about my lifelong love of the Bard's work, stretching from the first play I read of his, "MacBeth," in eighth-grade, to my Navy years and my return to Texas from California in …
3 in custody after smash-and-grab at First Colony Mall
Sep 28, 2024 · Photo by Ken Fountain. Three suspects are in custody after being caught following a "smash-and-grab" robbery at First Colony Mall on Saturday afternoon, according to a Facebook post by the Sugar Land Police Department. "After fleeing the scene, all 3 individuals were swiftly apprehended by the SLPD near Methodist Hospital.
Crime | fortbendstar.com
Oct 21, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2023. 0. On October 18, a Fort Bend County jury sentenced Joaquin Adrian Lima to the maximum of 20 years in prison after convicting him of a collision causing death the day before. The 29-year-old Rosenberg man was tried for fleeing the scene of an auto- pedestrian collision that resulted in the deat….
County News | fortbendstar.com
Nov 6, 2024 · By Ken Fountain [email protected]. Updated Sep 16, 2024. 0. With just weeks to go before Election Day, Taral Patel, the Democratic candidate for Fort Bend County Precinct 3 Commissioner, was arraigned Friday on four misdemeanor charges of online misrepresentation of identity in a Fort Bend County courtroom.
Missouri City | fortbendstar.com
Jan 14, 2021 · By STEFAN MODRICH [email protected] Missouri City officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Fort Bend County regarding what they allege are “ongoing voting irregularities” and “disenfranchising citizens” in the county’s handling of the 2020 election cycle, most recently with the early voting period for the city’s Dec. 12 runoff election.
Figuring out polls apart | Opinion | fortbendstar.com
Oct 6, 2024 · Figuring out polls apart. THE TV – “Forty-two percent of union members prefer Harris and of those, 28 percent are Blacks who live in battleground states and 9 percent are…” “A new poll shows Ted Cruz is 49 percent and Colin Allred is trending upwards with 45 percent among college educated shepherds and…” “Pundits cite a poll ...