A 71-year-old man in a wheelchair was fatally struck by vehicle while using a marked crosswalk on Telephone Road in Houston Friday night, police said.
A League City man, Juan Jose Uribe Pelaez, was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing his parents in their home, resulting in his mother's death and his father injured.
Gerardo Gonzalez, 29, is charged with injury to a child while the young girl continues fighting for her life, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
A 16-year-old girl’s escape from captivity led to the dismantling of a Houston sex trafficking ring. After being lured and exploited by gang member Andres Portillo and five other men, the teen’s secret call for help exposed a network of abuse.
Houston police are investigating after a body was discovered Friday morning in a wooded area near Buffalo Bayou on Deerwood Road.
Maria Jimenez-Rodriguez disappeared in the summer of 2018 after dropping her young daughter off at a babysitter's home. After 8 grueling years, her family may have some sense of closure after the man convicted of her murder was sentenced.
A Baytown man in his late 60s was shot while barbecuing at a park on Nolan Road after an argument with two teenagers escalated. The man sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was airlifted to a
Two teenagers and a 20-year-old woman have been charged in an attempted armored truck robbery on Bellaire Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Houston Police Department.
An inmate who escaped from a Houston-area hospital nearly three weeks ago has been captured in Seattle, Washington — and investigators say he was sending threatening messages to women in Texas, including messages involving their juvenile daughters, while on the run.
A Houston-area physician has been sentenced to 12.5 years in federal prison after admitting she operated an illegal prescription scheme out of her Kingwood clinic that prosecutors say fueled the distribution of more than 3 million opioid pills.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says a 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged following an investigation into the death of an 18-year-old and the fentanyl overdose of a 16-year-old.
The Baytown Police Department says a wanted fugitive died after falling unconscious and suffering a medical emergency as officers were attempting to bring him into custody Tuesday.
Two alleged leaders of a violent Houston street gang have been convicted in federal court for ordering a retaliatory drive-by shooting in the Third Ward that killed an innocent bystander, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
A woman who initially said she was locked in a closet for days and sexually assaulted by rapper Cartel Bo — also known as Warren Brown — has now taken back her allegations, according to his defense team.
Deputies responded to reports of gunfire at the Hacienda Bonita Apartments in northwest Houston Saturday night, where they found an unresponsive male, believed to be about 18, with a gunshot wound near a vehicle at the complex entrance.
A man in his 60s was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds, including to his head and chest, outside an apartment complex in northwest Houston early Sunday morning.
Two men were shot while walking and eating ice cream in northwest Houston after a car carrying four individuals pulled up and opened fire, police say.
A Houston funeral home director accused of stealing a dead man’s estate stormed out of the Harris County criminal courthouse Friday morning, claiming to be a “celebrity” who had nothing to say — then quickly changed course and started hurling insults.
Houston police are asking the public to come forward after investigators arrested a 62-year-old man they say is connected to multiple sexual assault cases spanning nearly two decades.
A miniature horse named Peanut is missing in Harris County, prompting investigators and the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office to seek public assistance.
Harris County deputies are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a married couple in their 70s at a Cypress home. The couple’s son discovered their bodies and called 911, leading authorities to the scene where both were confirmed dead.
Bond has been denied for now on a second murder charge for an El Salvador teen accused of killing two different young people about eight months apart.
Two people have been arrested and charged after police in Seguin say a woman told them the pair kidnapped her from the Katy area and sexually assaulted her.
Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin faces allegations from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office of violating a gag order by speaking to the media in the Lee Gilley capital murder case.
A 17-year-old male fired at Harris County Sheriff’s deputies responding to a family disturbance at an apartment complex on Westpark Drive in Houston on July 29, 2026.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says a suspect is in custody after he allegedly fired shots at deputies responding to a family disturbance at an apartment complex.
Houston police have charged an 18-year-old with murder in a Midtown shooting, and he was already in the Harris County Jail facing a separate murder charge from a house party in East Harris County.
Unique Green, a Houston-area funeral director also known as Michael, has been released on bond after being arrested on five felony charges for allegedly stealing over $2 million from the estate of Lawrence Gammon by posing as his spouse and filing fraudulent documents.
Thieves are accused of repeatedly targeting Kingwood businesses, stealing backflow preventers and leaving property owners with flooded parking lots, broken pipes and repair bills in the thousands.
Houston rapper Warren Brown, known as NFL Cartel Bo, is facing an aggravated kidnapping charge after a welfare check at a northwest Harris County home led deputies to evidence that a woman had been held captive and later escaped, court records and law-enforcement officials said.
More than six years after a Houston-area teenager disappeared after becoming a victim of human trafficking, authorities have identified her remains, bringing long-awaited answers to a case that had remained unsolved.
The son of Chiefs assistant coach Eric Bieniemy has been arrested and charged with the shooting of his mother, Mia Bieniemy, the wife of the Kansas City offensive coordinator, authorities in Virginia said Monday.
A Harris County man who was already behind bars on unrelated charges is now facing an aggravated kidnapping charge after investigators said a victim escaped from a home where they had allegedly been held captive, according to Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman.
A 17-year-old girl and her 29-year-old brother were fatally shot outside a trailer in Harris County after the girl’s ex-boyfriend allegedly confronted them with a gun as she handed her toddler to a family member.