Harris County News

Update 2:04 PM : Sen. Estes spoke with Rep. Thompson by phone from the Senate floor to clarify what he called a miscommunication.

On Friday, May 17, seven buses of Wounded Warriors arrived at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

Members of the Texas Houses have expanded their retaliation against the Senate for failing to move their bills.

An Amber Alert was issued late Wednesday morning for an 18-month-old boy taken from his mother by his biological father, the sheriff's office said.

Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her ... (more)

Ruby Cole Session of Fort Worth, the mother of wrongly convicted inmate Timothy Brian Cole, was honored on the floor of the Texas Senate on Tuesday for her achievements as an educator, criminal justice reformer and a "fierce champion of the wrongly accused." The Senate resolution, introduced by Sen.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas A man died after being shot at a sports bar on the northwest side of town early Tuesday, investigators said.

An off-duty Harris County sheriff's deputy has been killed in a traffic accident that's led to another driver charged with intoxication manslaughter.

A Houston man was shot in the head after he confronted another man who had dragged his wife out of a nail salon during a domestic dispute, police said.

A shooting suspect is put into the back of Harris County Precinct 4 Constable vehicle at the scene of a shooting at a nail salon near the intersection of FM 1960 and Aldine Westfield Friday, May 17, 2013, in Houston.

According to the state of Texas, on Dec. 17, 1999, Robert Pruett , 20, took a sharpened metal rod wrapped with tape and stabbed prison guard Daniel Nagle eight times, prompting a heart attack that killed the guard.

CONROE, Texas A Harris County, Texas teen is accused of sexually assaulting his 6-year-old cousin in Conroe and posting sexually explicit videos and photos of the boy on the Internet.

Just days after the conviction of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, a Houston doctor is also accused of performing illegal abortions.

Authorities say a teenager has died at a Houston-area hospital after he was shot while in a car with several other youths.

A Huffman woman faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly taking out a Craigslist ad to place her son up for adoption, Harris County prosecutors said.

HOUSTON Harris County Sheriff's deputies are searching for three suspects who allegedly robbed an AT & T store in Atascocita Tuesday afternoon.

Already jailed on a capital murder charge, a 20-year-old Houston man now faces a new charge of assaulting a detention officer who was escorting him back to his jail cell on Sunday, according to the Harris County District Attorney's office.

Major reforms at the Port of Houston Authority have passed both chambers and now waits for only the governor's signature.

A Dayton High School teacher is accused of groping and fondling a 16-year-old student when the two were alone at his apartment.

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