Mark your calendars: The Houston Astros announced that single-game tickets for April games will go on sale next Wednesday.
This will be the first time since the pandemic the Astros will host fans at games.
The team has not updated its COVID-19 guidelines since Feb. 23 but says the Astros will host a limited number of socially-distanced fans at Minute Maid Park for the 2021 season.
Troy Finner is set to become the new chief of the Houston Police Department, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Thursday during a press conference.
The selection must be approved by the city council, which is expected to happen next week.
Finner formerly served as an executive assistant under current HPD Chief Art Acevedo, who recently said he has taken a job as the top cop in Miami. Finner began working at HPD in 1990 and has served in several capacities over his 31-year-career.
Turner said he earned “his stripes in HPD,” which has prepared him to lead from day one. Turner said interviewed several candidates for the position and said he was looking for a police chief that the city could trust and depend on.
“(Finner) has earned the trust and respect of people in every corner of our community,” Turner said.
Finner is a native Houstonian from Fifth Ward. He attended James Madison High School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Sam Houston State University and a master’s degree from the University of Houston.
Finner said the department’s top priorities are reducing the homicide rate and violent crime and building trust in the community. He said those efforts are compounded by the ongoing fight against COVID-19.
“It’s a lot of friction. People are frustrated, but we are going to be all right,” he said.
Edinburg, Texas – Los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza en el Valle del Río Grande se han encontrado con familias y niños extranjeros no acompañados que son introducidos de contrabando en el país en grupos de más de 100.
El martes por la mañana, agentes asignados a la Estación de Patrulla Fronteriza de la Ciudad de Río Grande (RGC) detuvieron a un grupo de 100 extranjeros indocumentados, que consisten principalmente en familias al sur de La Grulla, Texas.
Dentro del grupo había nueve extranjeros de Rumania y dos ciudadanos de Cuba.
A la mañana siguiente, agentes asignados a la Estación de Patrulla Fronteriza de McAllen detuvieron a un grupo de 102 extranjeros al sur de La Joya, Texas. Este grupo estaba formado principalmente por familias y niños no acompañados (UAC). Los individuos eran de varios países centroamericanos.
El jueves por la mañana temprano, los agentes, con la ayuda de los oficiales de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Starr, detuvieron a un grupo de 137 extranjeros al sur de Roma. El grupo estaba compuesto por familias centroamericanas y cuatro adultos.
A pesar de los peligros inherentes de cruzar el traicionero Río Grande, los extranjeros continúan arriesgando sus vidas para ingresar a los Estados Unidos. En los últimos días, la Patrulla Fronteriza ha realizado múltiples rescates de personas que fueron dejadas a la deriva por los contrabandistas. Los grupos se introducen de contrabando en balsas inflables que casi siempre superan la capacidad máxima del improvisado transporte y rara vez se les proporciona chalecos salvavidas.
Lo anterior ocurrió la semana anterior pero el flujo de indocumentados de diferentes nacionalidades parece constante, de acuerdo con observadores familiarizados con el fenómeno migratorio en la frontera.
Producer: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Evan Spiliotopoulos
Writer: Evan Spiliotopoulos
Release Date (Theaters): Wide
Production Co: Screen Gems, Ghost House Pictures
The Unholy follows Alice, a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.
Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Alexey Serebryakov and Christopher Lloyd
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Writer: Derek Kolstad
Producers: Kelly McCormick, David Leitch, Braden Aftergood, Bob Odenkirk, Marc Provissiero
Executive Producers: Derek Kolstad, Marc S. Fischer, Tobey Maguire
Sometimes the man you don’t notice is the most dangerous of all.
Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, The Post, Nebraska) stars as Hutch Mansell, an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody.
When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake (Gage Munroe, The Shack), is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen, Wonder Woman), seems to pull only further away.
The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch’s long-simmering rage, triggering dormant instincts and propelling him on a brutal path that will surface dark secrets and lethal skills. In a barrage of fists, gunfire, and squealing tires, Hutch must save his family from a dangerous adversary (famed Russian actor Alexey Serebryakov, Amazon’s McMafia)—and ensure that he will never be underestimated as a nobody again.
Nobody is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry), from a script by Derek Kolstad, the narrative architect of the John Wick franchise, and co-stars legendary Emmy winner Christopher Lloyd as Hutch’s father and multi-hyphenate musician-actor RZA as Hutch’s brother, whose own hidden talents aid Hutch in his quest for vengeance.
The film is produced by Kelly McCormick, p.g.a, and David Leitch, p.g.a., the filmmakers of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2, and Atomic Blonde, for their company 87North, by Braden Aftergood, p.g.a. (Hell or High Water, Wind River), for his Eighty-Two Films, and by Bob Odenkirk and Marc Provissiero (Hulu’s PEN15) for Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. The film is executive produced by Derek Kolstad, Marc S. Fischer and Tobey Maguire.