California cities and counties still don’t know how much they’ll have to pay for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic program to house homeless people in hotel rooms.

A massive three-alarm fire was reported at Motel 6 on West Sam Houston Parkway South Tuesday.

Houston police are investigating after three people were found shot and nine people were arrested during a reported human smuggling incident in west Houston Wednesday afternoon.

Four people face capital murder charges after a man was shot to death at an east Houston motel.

Houston police said a housekeeper at a Motel 6 found a man who was shot multiple times in one of the rooms Tuesday morning.

HOUSTON – A Houston man is back in prison after authorities said he was convicted of exploiting a minor, otherwise referred to as the production of child pornography. According to the release, the video came to light in 2017 after a 15-year-old girl turned it into the authorities. Officers conducted a search at a Houston-area Motel 6, where they found another young girl performing a sex act on a grown man, according to the release. He plead guilty to the crime on Jan. 28 and Love was convicted Wednesday and sentenced to 300 months -- the equivalent of 25 years -- in federal prison. According to the release, Love was convicted of indecency with a 14-year-old girl in 2010 and was required to register as a sex offender.

The governor also said he plans to announce on Wednesday plans to "toggle back" the states stay-at-home order. Newsom says indoor operations at restaurants, wineries and tasting rooms, family entertainment centers, movie theaters, zoos and museums and cardroom gambling businesses must close. The bottom line is the spread of this virus continues at a rate that is particularly concerning, Newsom said. And he suggested that state officials would first try to convince non-compliant businesses to cooperate instead of penalizing them. Confirmed coronavirus cases in California have increased nearly 50% over the past two weeks.