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HARTFORD, Conn. — The UConn men’s basketball team was the talk of Houston after cruising to a national championship on Monday, but Houston’s attention has turned from the brilliance of the Huskies to the perceived ignorance of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont after comments he made about the host city.

Connecticut’s governor is taking heat for calling the city of Houston “butt ugly” after returning from the Final Four

Houston’s community land trust was once touted as an innovative way to address its housing crisis. But city leaders slashed its funding by half as bureaucracy bogged down the program and enthusiasm dwindled.

An estimated 50 million Americans also under windchill alerts as ‘once-in-a-generation event’ could impact holiday travel

“Seeing the kid’s faces afterward, seeing them smile, and their reactions are good,” Jalen Green says. “They see me, and they see what is being built. That is the best part for me.”

More than four weeks after the shooting death of Migos rapper Takeoff, police in Houston, Texas, have charged a suspect with murder.

Many residents in the nation’s fourth-most-populous city heard that they couldn’t drink tap water from friends or neighbors, not from City Hall.

Houston’s citywide water outage stemmed from the failure of two electrical transformers at a key treatment complex that prevented officials from turning on backup generators.

The closures included the eighth-largest school district in the U.S.