Adam Zuvanich | Houston Public Media

The 10-year-old girl along with her siblings and parents, who are from Mexico and had been living in Texas without legal status for more than a decade, were detained in early February at an immigration checkpoint in South Texas, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project.

GOGO Charters, which began renting out charter buses in major U.S. cities in 2012, is planning daily bus routes between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth as well Houston and San Antonio, with in-between stops in Katy and The Woodlands.

A tornado touched down in the Cypress area in northwest Harris County.

The blooming cycle for Texas' state flower is 2-3 weeks ahead of schedule because of earlier-than-usual warm weather, according to Texas A&M horticulturalist Michael Arnold.