Sylvester Turner. Turner, a former Houston mayor, died March 5, just a few weeks into his first term in Congress as the representative for Texas's 18th Congressional District. The solidly ...

Session after session, then-state Rep. Sylvester Turner introduced legislation to force Texas lawmakers to spend hundreds of ...

Republicans hold a tiny majority in the House, creating an incentive for Abbott to hold off on calling an election for Turner’s seat, which would likely be filled by a Democrat.

Greg Abbott announced Monday that a special election to fill the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s seat won’t be ...

Abbott sets the election for November 4, leaving voters in the Houston-area 18th congressional district without ...

The decision to wait until November means a narrowly divided Congress will be down a Democratic representative for most of ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Tuesday set the date for a Nov. 4 special election to fill the late Rep. Sylvester Turner’s ...

At the park honoring her late father, Ashley Turner-Captain is ready to continue the Sylvester Turner Family Day in the Park ...

Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, let two key deadlines pass to call a May special election to fill the seat of the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner. Unless Abbott deems filling the seat an ...

Sylvester Turner, who died a month ago. But Teneshia Hudspeth, the chief elections officer in Harris County where Turner’s congressional district is located, pushed back on Abbott’s criticism, saying ...

Houston City Council Member Abbie Kamin (right) plans to put forward a proposal renaming the downtown stretch of Bagby Street after the late Houston Mayor and U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner (left). The ...

A segment of Bagby Street that runs past City Hall in downtown Houston could be renamed after the late Congressman and former mayor Sylvester Turner, if a proposal from City Controller Chris ...