The former mayor of Houston and veteran of the Texas Legislature promised to be a bridge until a full primary can be held to ...

Several dozen precinct chairs Tuesday night elected former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to be the Democratic nominee for Congressional District 18, replacing the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on ...

Seven years ago, the firefighters union sued the city over its labor contract, launching one of the longest-running battles ...

WASHINGTON — Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is on a glide path to be the next congressman from Houston, after Harris County Democrats selected him Tuesday to be the Democratic candidate ...

Former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner has won the Democratic nomination to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), making Turner her likely successor next year in the heavily Democratic ...

Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner's next step in politics may lead him to Capitol Hill. Democratic leaders chose Turner, a former Texas state lawmaker, as the party's nominee in November's ...

HOUSTON — Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, the Democratic nominee to replace the late Sheila Jackson Lee in Congress in November, made an appeal for conservative-leaning independents to ...

Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks to the press about the Texas Education Agency takeover of Houston Independent School District during a press conference in Houston on Friday ...

HOUSTON — Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will be the Democratic nominee to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on the November general election ballot. In a runoff vote among precinct ...

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