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HOUSTON, TX — More news has surfaced on the baby found abandoned in an NW Harris County apartment Thursday morning . According to authorities, the baby was less than an hour old, full-term and healthy, covered with ants and still had its umbilical cord attached . Two men on their way to work early Thursday morning found the baby around 5 a.m. in the grass on the grounds of the apartment complex off of Red Oak Drive. Investigators have tracked down the woman they feel is the biological mother. There was an emergency custody hearing Friday morning , and the man who claims to be the father testified that the mother constantly denied being pregnant, although he believed she was. A DNA test is being performed to see if the man matches the baby's DNA. According to the report on KTRK Houston, the child's umbilical cord had been ripped rather than cut, and that the infant has a bacterial infection and rapid heart rate . Detectives said that if the two people hadn't found the b...

FLINT, MI -- Hurley Medical Center will celebrate its continued partnership with Oak Street Senior Apartments by unveiling the new wellness exercise room . Hurley and Communities First, Inc. will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new wellness room at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 28 at Oak Street Senior Apartments located at 1000 Oak Street in Flint.  The room will be filled with space for activities, exercise equipment and much more. The partnership between Hurley and Oak Street Senior Apartments  started nearly a year ago when the apartment building for low- income seniors opened . Hurley helped outfit their Health Services Room with an exam table, medical supplies and health literature. Hurley staff help with routine health screenings and onsite nursing hours for one-on-one health and wellness coaching . This is just another way hospitals in the Flint area are preparing to take care of the county's aging population .  Even though Genesee County 's overall population h...

Ramon Gonzalez poses in his apartment on Aug. 2, 2017 at the Coconut Grove Apartments in Phoenix. (Photo: Loren Townsley/The Republic) A tiny change in paperwork and a big shift in mindset at  Maricopa County 's jails could help dozens of homeless people get off the street, eliminate hundreds of arrests and save taxpayers money . Last month, homeless inmates began meeting with caseworkers in jail to connect them to apartments, medical care and jobs immediately upon release in an effort to keep them from coming back.  The jail system has never before partnered so closely with public-housing, health-care and human- services agencies to address homelessness and prevent recidivism, agency partners say.  "We knew we had to start looking more deeply at this relatively small number of people who are homeless and somehow not getting access to services," said Margaret Kilman,  Homelessness Projects program manager for the Maricopa County Human Services Department . "Con...