HOUSTON (AP) — A press secretary for Houston's mayor was suspended for nearly two weeks without pay after officials determined she'd sent or received thousands of emails related to personal business on city time.
A city memo alleges about 5,000 emails from Darian Ward's city account related to her production company or other personal business.
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