Rep. Miles pulls out win over Al Edwards

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- State Rep. Borris Miles pulled out a win over his longtime opponent, Al Edwards, Tuesday night in the race for District 146.

Miles collected 57 percent of the vote to defeat his longtime rival,.

Earlier Tuesday, both candidates said they knew low voter turn out could either make or break things for them.

Representative Miles and his team say they've been pleased with the numbers showing a steady lead over Al Edwards all night. Both candidates are very well known in this community, and the political rivals have been going at each other for years over the District 146 seat.

Coming in to this race, Edwards was hoping his near 30 year's seniority would help give him the edge this time. On Tuesday night, he told Eyewitness News regardless of who comes out ahead, leaders still need to fight for issues like education and health care.

State Rep. Miles says he's been focused on results and his track record in the Capitol, and after learning of his double-digit lead over Edwards, he told us it appears the voters have spoken.

"Moving forward we are going to continue what we've started, and working with the state of Texas on police brutality, urban farming, and working to make sure we return the money back to HISD and to our schools across the country that were cut by the Republicans," Miles said.

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Radio personality runs 62 miles each day for a week

STAFFORD, TX (KTRK) -- A Houston radio personality has dropped his microphone and picked up his running shoes. Kevin Kline is planning to run more than 60 miles a day, for an entire week, in an effort to help fight pediatric cancer.

Kevin Kline has run, and run, and run, always for a reason, but never quite like this. Extreme runners are used to pushing the envelope, but this is a big one even by their standards. Kline is running 62 miles a day for seven straight days, all at the Stafford Centre.

"The ultimate goal is to bring awareness to the lack of funding for pediatric cancer," Kline explained.

Kline and his wife run the Snowdrop Foundation, dedicated to raising research money and scholarships for pediatric cancer patients. In the past six years, he's completed a variety of distance running feats, always with young cancer survivors in mind.

"I've been surprised by everything he's done," said cancer survivor George Bember. "It's crazy how he just keeps running and running and running."

It may seem monotonous to run laps around the Stafford Centre, but that's the point, to simulate the experience that cancer patients go through in their daily chemotherapy rituals.

"This is to symbolically show what the children have to go through, through their chemotherapy," Kline said. "There is nothing comfortable about this; they actually experience pain. I just experience degrees of discomfort."

Kline began this pursuit after meeting 15-year-old cancer patient Chelsey Campbell several years ago. Now he is often joined on his runs by cancer survivors, families, and fans eager to see him complete 62 miles a day for seven straight days.

Kline's coach Tim Necker said, "You see survivors, you see kids in process of chemo out here, so it's really motivating."

Kline plans to finish his seven day stretch of 62 miles a day by January 1.

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