Houston County Sheriff’s Lt., Jon Holland said that a man and woman snatched the money, $150, from the 13-year-old girl, Chelsea Edwards, who was selling lemonade in central Georgia with her two friends in order to raise funds for her 2-year-old cousin, who will soon undergo treatment for an intestinal disease in Cincinnati.

Some people in this country are really insensitive. 3 girls were selling lemonade as they were doing a fund raiser for an ill toddler. Their collection of $150 was stolen by thieves.

According to the authorities a man and a woman went to their strand and snatched the money jar running with $150.

Houston-based offshore safety institute will be launched soon by the oil and gas industry's main trade group. The President of American Petroleum Institute (API), Jack Gerard said that the new centre will promote the safety for offshore operations, through an effective program of management practices, communication and teamwork.

Following the economic meltdown over the past few years, it seems that the Houston area has had a remarkably decent year in 2010. The report came after the Texas Workforce Commission released its annual workforce figures for the year 2010, on Thursday.

A letter was published in the medical journal Lancet on Friday in which Arthur Beaudet of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston revealed that DNA experts might come across some thorny issues while performing genetic tests on children with developmental or intellectual problems.

Powell Industries Inc. recently revealed a 19% rise in its earnings report for the current fiscal year's fourth quarter, on the back of lower expenses; its backlog, however, did continue to fall. The results posted have managed to beat Wall Street estimates.

After rejecting various other offers, Landry's Restaurants, has agreed to Chief Executive Tilman Fertitta's latest bid to take the company private. Under the agreement, the firm will go private for a price of $14.75 per share, or nearly $1.2 Billion in cash.

With the space shuttle Atlantis “all set” for its scheduled Monday afternoon take-off, the countdown for NASA’s final servicing trip to the Hubble Space Telescope – which has not had any ‘visitor’ in the past seven years – has begun at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center!

The PlayStation 3, characteristically a video game console, can also prove to be a hazard to children, as they can be easily accessed by predators. That’s exactly what Harris County Constables Office Precinct 4 investigators recently discovered!

Two new studies on breast cancer have just been concluded and while one said that women who know they carry a gene that puts them at higher risk of breast cancer tend to opt for preventive mastectomy, the second said consumption of any alcohol including red or white wine increases the risk of breast cancer.