Former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards announced her bid for Congress on Wednesday to fill the seat vacated after ...

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Sylvester Turner of Texas, who died this month just weeks into first term in Congress, was scheduled to lie in state at ...

HOUSTON — Former Houston mayor and current U.S. Congressman Sylvester Turner has died at the age of 70, according to current Houston Mayor John Whitmire. Whitmire announced Turner's passing at ...

HOUSTON, March 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayor John Whitmire and Houston First Corporation today unveiled a transformational master plan to reconnect the city's East End with downtown, creating a ...

Former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner talks to the media at Minute Maid Field before the Houston Astros play the New York Mets in the first game after Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas ...

HOUSTON, March 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayor John Whitmire and Houston First Corporation today unveiled a transformational master plan to reconnect the city's East End with downtown, creating a ...

Many current council members worked closely with Turner during his tenure as mayor of Houston. They paid tribute to him at the weekly council meeting on Wednesday.

(CNN) — Sylvester Turner, a Democratic congressman and former mayor of Houston, has died at the age of 70. Turner died peacefully Wednesday, according to a statement from his congressional office.

Then-Houston mayor Sylvester Turner describes his bout with cancer in an interview at City Hall in Houston on Nov. 15, 2022. (Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune) U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner ...

He was 70 years old. Turner also served as Houston's mayor from 2016 until 2024. The city of Houston confirmed his death and Mayor John Whitmire released a statement calling Turner a "remarkable ...

Texas Rep. Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston, died suddenly at 70 years old just two months after taking office Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an ...