HOUSTON — Residents of Acres Homes gathered Tuesday evening to honor the late Sylvester Turner with a memorial vigil held at ...

On Saturday, late Houston mayor and congressman Sylvester Turner was laid to rest during services at the Church Without Walls.

U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, who rose from a child in Acres Homes to serve as Houston’s mayor for eight years and was elected to Congress last year, has died. He was 70. His death was confirmed ...

The former Houston mayor’s funeral drew more than 1,000 mourners on Saturday, including 20 of his congressional colleagues ...

Board of Education ended school segregation, Sylvester Turner grew up in the Acres Homes area of northwest Houston. "I was bused 18 miles one way, 36 miles a day to the Klein Independent School ...

Commissioners voted unanimously on March 27 to rename the downtown Houston building, Lamar Plaza, after the late U.S.

As a boy, Turner ... to make sure Houston would not be, as he put it, a city of haves and have-nots. He remained, until his final days serving in Congress, a kid from Acres Homes.

Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner once said he dreamed of working in one of the buildings that overlook downtown. Now, he ...