Plummer and Sanchez Present Clear Choices at GHWCC Harris County Judge Forum

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

By Francis Page Jr.

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    August 25, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) — HOUSTON — Democracy had a front-row seat as the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce (GHWCC) convened Harris County Judge candidates Dr. Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez for a substantive post-primary forum before Houston-area business, civic and community leaders.

The event carried added significance with remarks from Houston City Council Member Martha Castex-Tatum, helping set a tone of civic responsibility, leadership and voter participation.

Dr. Plummer, the Democratic nominee, highlighted her experience as a dentist, mother, small-business owner and former Houston City Council Member At-Large, while emphasizing responsive government, neighborhood investment and public safety.

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Orlando Sanchez, the Republican nominee and former Harris County Treasurer, presented his own Houston story—rooted in his Cuban immigrant upbringing, Bellaire High School and University of Houston education, and decades of public-service experience. Guiding the conversation were respected Houston voices Dr. Jacquie Baly, Nancy Sims and Grant Trammell, whose facilitation helped keep the focus on issues rather than political theater.

Under the leadership of GHWCC Founder, President and CEO Suzan Deison, the forum once again demonstrated why informed civic engagement matters.

The biggest winner? Harris County voters—because democracy is strongest when candidates answer questions, communities listen, and citizens ultimately make the choice.

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Federal Judges and Legal Community Convene in Houston for JTB’s 13th National Conference

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

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    August 25, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) — HOUSTON — Houston’s September docket is about to get crowded—in the best possible way. From September 17–20, 2026, federal judges, attorneys, law students, educators, corporate legal leaders and aspiring young advocates from across America will gather in Houston for Just the Beginning – A Pipeline Organization’s 13th National Conference, “Pursuing a More Perfect Union.” And Houston Style Magazine is proud to serve as a media sponsor, helping amplify an event that places opportunity, justice and the future of American democracy squarely in the spotlight.

Held every four years, the JTB-APO National Conference is designed to connect generations of legal talent while expanding pathways into a profession that has tremendous influence over civil rights, constitutional freedoms, businesses, families and communities. Official conference information confirms programming from September 17 through September 20, with activities centered in downtown Houston.

That makes the conference more than another gathering of people carrying briefcases and quoting precedent.

It is democracy doing some serious recruiting.

For more than three decades, Just the Beginning has worked to encourage students from historically underrepresented communities to pursue careers and leadership opportunities in law. Its approach combines education, exposure and connection—the idea being that young people are more likely to imagine themselves becoming attorneys, judges and policymakers when they can actually meet the people already doing the work. JTB’s programs reach students from middle school through law school and emphasize leadership skills, mentorship and real-world legal experiences.

During the Houston conference, students will participate in immersive legal programming while attorneys and judges take part in Continuing Legal Education programs, judicial conversations, networking and mentoring opportunities. The official registration program includes CLE panels, student enrichment activities, judicial meetings, a luncheon honoring a legendary Texas jurist and an awards celebration recognizing trailblazers and scholarship recipients.

One of the weekend’s most meaningful moments will honor the late Judge Reynaldo Guerra Garza, whose career permanently widened the doorway to America’s federal judiciary.

Born in Brownsville, Texas, Garza was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in 1961 and confirmed by the Senate that April. He became the nation’s first Mexican American federal district judge, later serving as Chief Judge of the Southern District of Texas from 1974 to 1979 before President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

That history matters because representation in the justice system is not simply about symbolism. Courts earn public confidence when Americans can believe that the institutions interpreting the Constitution understand the breadth of the nation they serve.

Leading the 2026 gathering as conference co-chairs are two distinguished Houston jurists: Hon. Vanessa D. Gilmore, U.S. District Judge (Ret.), who served on the Southern District of Texas federal bench from 1994 until her retirement in 2022, and Hon. Alfred H. Bennett, who has served as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas since his 2015 confirmation.

The conference will also celebrate four law student scholarship recipients, including scholarships connected to Houston’s law-school community. Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law notes that JTB’s conference scholarships include recipients associated with Houston law schools along with the Joshua and Dorothy Williams Memorial Legal Education Scholarship.

For Houston, hosting “Pursuing a More Perfect Union” feels especially appropriate. This is one of America’s youngest, most diverse and most internationally connected major cities—a place where tomorrow rarely waits politely for permission to arrive.

A more perfect union was never meant to describe a finished product. It is an assignment passed from one generation to the next.

And this September, some of the young people walking into a Houston conference room may eventually walk into a courtroom wearing the robe.

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Abbott Appoints Former Democratic State Rep. Shawn Thierry as Harris County Judge

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

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    August 25, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) — HOUSTON — In Texas politics, sometimes the road from the blue side of the aisle to the red side leads straight to the judicial bench.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced August 25, 2026, that former Democratic state Rep. Shawn Nicole Thierry, who switched to the Republican Party in 2024, will become judge of Harris County’s newly created 515th Judicial District Court. Her appointment becomes effective September 1 and runs through December 31, 2028, or until a successor is elected and qualified.

For Thierry, it represents another remarkable turn in a Houston political career that has moved from Democratic legislative politics to Republican alignment — and now into Texas’ judiciary.

The 515th Judicial District is composed of Harris County and, under state law, will give preference to civil cases. The court was created by the Texas Legislature as part of an expansion of Harris County’s judicial capacity and takes effect September 1, 2026.

Abbott pointed to Thierry’s nearly three decades of legal experience in announcing the appointment. She currently serves as executive director of Policy in the Office of General Counsel at Texas Southern University, bringing her political journey home to an institution with deep roots in Houston’s Black legal and civic history.

Thierry earned her bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Management from Howard University and her Juris Doctor from Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Her résumé also includes membership in the State Bar of Texas and Houston Bar Association, along with civic involvement ranging from literacy organizations to community service. Abbott previously appointed her to the Texas Juvenile Justice Board in 2025.

But it is impossible to tell the Shawn Thierry story without discussing politics.

First elected in 2016, Thierry represented heavily Democratic Texas House District 146 for four terms. Her relationship with Democratic activists deteriorated significantly during the 2023 legislative session after she joined Republicans and several fellow Democrats in supporting Senate Bill 14, which prohibited certain gender-transition-related medical treatments for minors. The measure was signed into law by Abbott in June 2023.

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Thierry argued that children should wait until adulthood before making certain potentially irreversible medical decisions. Critics within her party argued that the legislation interfered with decisions they believed should remain between families and medical professionals.

That debate followed her home.

In the 2024 Democratic primary runoff, union organizer Lauren Ashley Simmons defeated Thierry, ending Thierry’s bid for a fifth House term. The race became a referendum not simply on one legislative vote, but on representation itself: How far may an elected official depart from the prevailing views of the voters and party that elected them before those voters decide to make a change?

That question is democracy doing exactly what democracy does — sometimes loudly, sometimes painfully and almost never neatly.

Three months after losing the primary, Thierry announced she was leaving the Democratic Party and joining the Republicans, saying her positions on children, family, faith and women’s sports were increasingly incompatible with Democratic Party policies. Abbott publicly welcomed her into the GOP.

Now comes a different assignment.

Campaign applause, party labels and legislative floor fights should matter considerably less when a judge puts on the robe. Litigants appearing before the 515th District Court will not be asking whether Thierry once carried a Democratic primary ballot or later joined the Republican Party. They will expect something far more fundamental: equal justice, impartiality, competence and fidelity to the law.

That is where democracy’s next test begins.

Thierry said following the appointment that she intends to serve with “integrity, fairness, and respect for the rule of law.”

Those words establish a worthy standard.

Because political parties may open doors, close doors — or lead someone to an entirely different hallway. But inside a courtroom, justice must belong to everybody.

And in Harris County, everybody will be watching.

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‘There’s a bat in my mouth’: Doctor’s bat nightmare goes viral

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

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    RICHMOND, Virginia (WTVR) — A Richmond doctor woke up last week to find a bat trying to get into her mouth — and her viral story carries an important warning for anyone who encounters a bat inside their home.

Dr. Krista Edelman, a gastroenterologist who lives off Grove Avenue in Richmond, was asleep in her nearly 100-year-old home when the encounter happened. She has since shared her experience on Instagram, where it has been shared more than 33,000 times.

“So brace yourself, this is a bat PSA,” Edelman said in the video.

Edelman said she was dreaming when she first sensed something near her face.

“So I was dreaming, and in my dream there was a cute little field mouse. This is pretty vivid, the whole thing. A little field mouse trying to get into my mouth,” Edelman said.

As she began to wake up, she reached toward her mouth and grabbed something she said initially felt like a tulip.

“And then I felt on its back really kind of coarse, short hair, and when that happened, I realized that was not a mouse,” Edelman said. “I screamed, and I was screaming repeatedly, something to the extent of like, ‘There’s a bat in my mouth. The bat is trying to get in my mouth.'”

Edelman quickly researched what to do and learned she should try to catch the bat rather than kill it, so it could be tested for rabies. She then called a friend who is an infectious disease doctor for guidance on whether she needed to seek a rabies vaccine immediately.

“He was anxious, and he’s not a very anxious person. So when he got anxious, I started to get anxious, and what I didn’t fully realize at the time was that the closer to the brain the exposure, the markedly accelerated risk of transmission,” Edelman said.

Her friend urged her to get treated as soon as possible. Edelman went to the emergency department at St. Mary’s Hospital, where she works, and was seen by Dr. Adam Landsee, the assistant medical director for the ER.

Landsee said anyone who wakes up to find a bat in their home should take the situation seriously.

“If you wake up in a room with a bat in your room or in your kid’s room or in your house, you kind of have to assume the worst,” Landsee said.

He said the small size of bat teeth makes it difficult to know whether a bite occurred.

“Bat teeth are very small and you don’t know if you’ve been bitten or not, and with rabies being essentially fatal, they need to be treated,” Landsee said.

Dr. Julia Murphy, the state’s public health veterinarian with the Virginia Department of Health, said submissions of bats for rabies testing are up this year compared to previous years, though the number of bats that have tested positive is not up.

Murphy recommends trying to trap the bat, as Edelman did, and then contacting your local health department for guidance. Local health departments can turn around bat rabies testing in roughly 48 hours. If the test comes back negative, a vaccine will not be needed.

“What I would encourage is a very prompt contact with local health department or animal control services for guidance,” Murphy said.

Edelman recently learned the bat that tried to get into her mouth tested negative for rabies. She said she shared her story to help others who might find themselves in a similar situation.

“I was compelled to put it out there because I was a little humbled. Like I, again, grew up in rural Hanover. Like I think I know the basics of things, and I was humbled about how I didn’t really know what to do in that situation,” Edelman said.

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Al Green to Trump: “Still I Rise” — Houston Congressman Files New Articles of Impeachment

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

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    August 25, 2026 (Houston Style Magazine) — Houston Congressman Al Green has again put the Constitution where he believes it belongs – squarely in the middle of America’s political conversation. On Monday, August 24, Green filed H.Res. 1486, articles of impeachment accusing President Donald J. Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors tied to the administration’s immigration-enforcement practices and what Green describes as a broader assault on constitutional restraints. Green’s office says the resolution alleges that Trump allowed ICE and Customs and Border Protection to operate without adequate accountability while assaulting civilians and covering up unjustified killings, naming Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

Green followed the filing with a direct communiqué to Trump — not a victory lap, but a constitutional warning shot. He told the president that the issue, in his view, is not Democrat versus Republican, conservative versus liberal, or Left versus Right, but “right versus wrong.” That framing matters. The Constitution was never designed as a party souvenir to be pulled from the shelf only when convenient. It is the operating agreement for a republic, and Green is arguing that no president gets an unlimited data plan for executive power.

The resolution goes further, accusing Trump of abusing presidential authority by turning ICE and CBP into “unaccountable paramilitary police forces” while threatening due process, free speech, judicial independence and the separation of powers. Those are Green’s allegations, not adjudicated findings. The White House and Department of Homeland Security rejected them Tuesday, August 25, defended federal immigration officers and called the impeachment effort baseless. That rebuttal belongs in the record, too, because democracy works best when charges are public, responses are public and evidence is tested rather than buried beneath partisan shouting.

Politically, Green is climbing a steep hill. Republicans currently control both chambers, and filing articles does not itself impeach a president. Under the Constitution, the House must approve articles by a simple majority; conviction in the Senate requires two-thirds of senators present. H.Res. 1486, therefore, is not a removal notice. It is a constitutional accusation placed into the national record.

That distinction is precisely why Green’s action may matter even if it never reaches a Senate trial. He acknowledged the arithmetic in his letter, arguing that unsuccessful articles can still register formal disapproval and demonstrate that some members of Congress are “watching and willing to act.” Former Vice President Dick Cheney — hardly a liberal icon — warned in 2022 that Trump represented an extraordinary threat to the republic, a reminder that concern over democratic guardrails has crossed ideological lines.

Green, who has represented Houston in Congress since 2005 and lost his Democratic primary runoff to Christian Menefee in May, is making this stand as his current House tenure nears its end. That gives the moment an added layer: a longtime Houston congressman choosing confrontation over quiet departure.

For Houston Style Magazine readers, the issue is larger than one politician. Democracy determines whether neighborhoods are heard, courts remain independent, immigrant families receive due process and federal power answers to law. Green’s critics will call the filing political theater. His supporters will call it constitutional courage. Both can debate the tactic.

But the larger democratic principle should be harder to dispute: presidents are powerful, not sovereign. Congress is not decorative. Courts are not optional. Free speech is not a favor. Due process is not a loophole.

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America’s democratic experiment has survived wars, assassinations, scandal, segregation and constitutional crises because citizens and institutions kept insisting that the rules still mattered. Al Green’s latest filing is one more test of that insistence. The outcome is uncertain; the responsibility is not.

Democracy does not protect itself. People do.

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Woman stung more than 300 times by Africanized bees, rescued by deputy and volunteers

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

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    ARANSAS COUNTY, Texas (KRIS) — Just 4 months into recovery from a fractured spine, Rockport resident Rachel Kelly-McKee was stung more than 300 times by Africanized bees at a local storage facility.

Surveillance video captured by a camera at Goose Island Park Storage on Saturday, Aug. 15, shows Kelly-McKee in her storage unit with her German shepherd, Chelsea. Kelly-McKee says Chelsea loves to come out to the units with her, but right by Chelsea is the tree that over 300 bees came out of. Kelly-McKee says it could have been Chelsea that provoked the bees.

“She came in and I noticed she had a few, a few bees on her and so I said. You know, I thought they were honeybees. I said, don’t bring the bees in here, you know,” Kelly-McKee said.

But it was more than just a few bees.

“The minute we cleared that door, I was just absolutely inundated. And so she ran one way and I ran the other way. I ran all around here just swatting and trying to get them off of me and screaming,” Kelly-McKee said.

An automatic gate at the storage facility stopped Kelly-McKee from being able to get away. The gate could only be activated by a car, not a person. The owner of the storage units opened the gate remotely when he saw what was happening. That is when Deputy Will Newsom of the Aransas County Sheriff’s Office and the Lamar Volunteer Fire Department arrived and sprung into action.

“But my plan was to roll up. And get her into the back compartment of my car, and then extricate her from the scene and move her down to Lamar Fire Station where we could get medical attention. So once I got her there, I got her out of the car and I grabbed the hose and started hosing her down, and so she could start getting the rest of the bees out of there,” Newsom said.

Without his quick action, the situation could have been fatal.

“I mean, you know, just, I mean one bee sting can be fatal to some people. She took over 300 stings, which is definitely in the fatal range. So I, I knew that we had a limited amount of time to be able to get her out of the situation, get her to medical care,” Newsom said.

Kelly-McKee says she is not looking to place blame. She says she just wants people to be aware of how to protect themselves.

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White Sox fan goes viral spilling everything from her purse to get walk-off home run ball

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

By Todd Feurer

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    CHICAGO (WBBM) — A White Sox fan went viral after spilling her purse as celebrated picking up catcher Jake Rogers’ walk-off home run ball on Friday at Rate Field.

Emma Rodriguez didn’t catch Rogers’ home run on the fly, but picked it up when a team employee pointed it out to her on the ground in the front row of the bleachers.

While she celebrated the White Sox’s walk-off 6-4 win over the Mets, jumping up and down, everything spilled out of her Coach purse – including her keys, wallet, cash, change, and lip gloss.

Rodriguez did get everything back after the game, and she gave the ball back to Rogers to help him commemorate his first career walk-off home run.

In return, Rodriguez received a signed bat, ball, and jersey, along with a thank you note from Rogers.

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Woman’s body recovered from Delaware River after she jumped in to save a young girl

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

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    DELRAN, New Jersey (KYW) — Emergency crews have recovered the body of a woman who went missing in the Delaware River after trying to rescue a girl who was struggling in the water.

Delran police responded to a report of two potential drowning victims shortly before 4 p.m. Monday at Amico Island Park at 81 Norman Ave., a Burlington County spokesperson said in a news release.

The missing woman went into the Delaware River to try to rescue a girl struggling in the water, the spokesperson said. The woman pushed the girl toward shore, where bystanders pulled her to safety.

According to the spokesperson, the woman went underwater during the rescue.

On Tuesday, officials confirmed the woman was located around 8:15 a.m. about 20 feet from a beach at the park.

She has been identified as 33-year-old Priscila Alvares Pereira Dos Santos of Delran.

The search area focused around the mouth of the Rancocas Creek, where it meets the Delaware River.

“At the time when the reports came in that she was submerged, the tide was moving out,” Kevin Peak, deputy chief of the Delran Fire Department, said. “We’ve heard all the stories about the ocean swimmers who get pulled by the undertow. River current is almost the exact same thing. It will pull you right under. If you’re not a strong swimmer or a good swimmer, it’s not going to fare very well for anyone involved.”

The search for the missing woman included the Delran police and fire departments, the Delran Emergency Squad, New Jersey State Police, Camden County dive team and the Philadelphia Police Department.

Amico Island Park is closed Tuesday due to the investigation.

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Big Macs, fries and 50 years of love: Couple returns to McDonald’s to celebrate anniversary

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

By Leondra Head

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    ATLANTA (WUPA) — A metro Atlanta couple is celebrating 50 years of marriage beneath the Golden Arches.

Mike and Susan Burks married in 1976. During the early years of their marriage, they frequently ate at the McDonald’s on Northside Parkway.

“When we first got married, we lived around the corner in Vinings, and Susan didn’t cook much. She sort of does now,” Mike Burks joked. “But out of necessity, we came down here twice a day.”

“Probably five times a week and sometimes twice a day,” Susan Burks said. “We love McDonald’s.”

Now, decades later, the couple is marking their golden anniversary at the restaurant with their favorite meal.

“The usual is a Big Mac, fries and a Coke,” Mike Burks said.

“There wasn’t a lot of choice back then,” he added. “All the stuff that’s around here right now, you didn’t have all of that back then.”

Mike said he knew almost immediately that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Susan.

“We met at a bar up on Roswell Road at 2:30 in the morning in 1975,” he said. “I said, ‘I just met the girl I’m going to marry.'”

The Burks say the secret to a lasting marriage is simple.

“Don’t give up, and lots of laughs through the tears,” they said.

They do not eat at McDonald’s as often as they once did, but the Burks chose to celebrate their milestone at the place that helped shape their earliest years together.

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Woman loses her arms and legs after surgery; husband seeks help to prepare home

CNN Newsource on August 25, 2026

By Karina Vargas

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    SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A San Diego woman lost her arms and legs following complications from emergency surgery, and her husband is now asking for skilled volunteers to help modify their home before she is discharged from the hospital.

Leslie Caoili was a healthy, competitive strength athlete who competed throughout San Diego before May 1st changed everything. She underwent an eight-and-a-half-hour emergency surgery to repair a tear in her aorta — the main artery from the heart.

Her husband, Lee Caoili, said the couple had gone in for a routine heart checkup when doctors found the tear.

“Most people who suffer an aortic dissection usually happens pretty quickly, and they don’t survive. So the surgery was necessary in order to save her life. She probably had maybe hours left to live, and we wouldn’t even, we didn’t even know it,” Lee said.

The surgery saved Leslie’s life, but complications that followed altered it permanently. She lost blood flow to her hands and feet in the weeks after the procedure.

“We didn’t really know how her body was gonna respond to the initial surgery, but she ended up losing blood flow to her hands and her feet, and by the end of the first month there, her hands and her feet were blackened and shriveled,” Lee said.

Because of the loss of blood flow to her limbs, Leslie’s hands were amputated at the mid-forearm, and she lost her legs as well.

“Every day has been a battle for her. Every day has been a fight,” Lee said.

Lee has remained by his wife’s side throughout her months-long hospital stay. Now, with her discharge approaching, the family says their home is not ready and needs major repairs and modifications to accommodate Leslie’s needs.

The family is asking for skilled volunteers, including carpenters, electricians, HVAC technicians, roofers, flooring installers, and painters.

For Lee, the work means far more than fixing a house.

“She just wants to come home to her family and her kids and her dog and me and wants to get back to living life as normal as we can make it for her,” Lee said.

Lee said he is getting through the ordeal with the support of their family and community, and he hopes Leslie will have a safe and accessible home waiting for her when she is discharged.

Leslie and Lee are parents to two daughters.

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