Harris County News Archives

Police said a sleepy driver may have caused a head-on collision on Aldine Mail Route at Chrisman in north Harris County on Saturday.

The capital murder charge filed against a Texas boy accused of killing a baby when he was 12-years-old has been downgraded.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has thrown out the 25-year prison sentence a Houston jury gave a woman who was convicted of murder for stabbing her tied-up husband 193 times.

Legal counsel is a matter of life and death in Houston, but it is not necessarily tied to a defendant's socioeconomic status, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver .

A Harris County deputy constable shot and wounded a 17-year-old after the teen threatened officers with his car following a brief chase this weekend, officials said.

Officials at Prairie View A&M University say they are investigating the death of a 20-year-old student who went for an early morning run off campus.

Harris County Sheriff's Department deputies are searching for the gunman who broke into a Channelview-area trailer home and held a couple by gunpoint before shooting them.

Harris County's voter registrar's office and the Texas Democratic Party announced late Friday that they have reached a settlement in a lawsuit that originally accused former County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt of illegally blocking the registration of thousands of voters.

A high-speed chase ended abruptly Thursday afternoon when the suspect got out of his vehicle and laid down in the center of FM 1960.

The highest criminal court in Texas has denied appeals from two death row inmates, including a hit man in a murder-for-hire plot and another man convicted of killing his wife.

An Odessa woman charged in the shooting death of a soldier home on leave from Iraq tells lawmen that it was an accident.

At Arturo's Restaurant in Uptown Park, the food is top shelf and so is the staff.

Early voting begins today for Houston's mayor, City Council and controller, 11 proposed state constitutional amendments, Bellaire municipal offices, community college and public school boards and more.

A Pasadena high school student has died after catching the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

Three teenagers have been accused of a 24-hour crime spree in northeast Harris County earlier this month after they allegedly shot out about 100 car windows with pellet guns, causing more than $24,000 in damage.

The Harris County District Attorney calls the actions of a Humble woman accused of causing an accident after getting off of her cell phone selfish and narcissistic.

After attempting to swim down the Houston Ship Channel in an effort to evade arrest, the man suspected in the Oct.

A sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at him after pursuing him in north Harris County early this morning, officials said.

The chaos on person can cause: In this case, it was Department of Public Safety Contractor Deetrice Wallace who will spend up to a year behind bars for falsifying inspection reports on breath alcohol testing equipment used in a number of cases, including the communities of South Houston and Clute in Harris County.

Associated Press October 13, 2009 Houston, Texas - A Harris County man condemned for a shooting rampage where five people were killed has lost a federal appeal of his conviction and death sentence.

A Texas man whose two nephews died in a Houston house fire remained in jail Tuesday, accused of pulling a gun and threatening emergency personnel who responded to blaze.

Just last week Harris County announced the first Houston area death from Swine Flu.

Police say Cody Plant, 21, of Houston was found when the owner and his family went to the vacant house on Knauff Ranch Court.

A Harris County jury is trying to decide if a woman caused the death of a 2-year-old Crosby girl.

Veteran Harris County prosecutor and resident of Santa Fe in Galveston County has announced he will seek the office of Galveston County District Attorney in the 2010 Republican primary.

More than 1,200 driving while intoxicated convictions in Harris County are invalid after a contractor was convicted of faking inspections of alcohol breath testing devices, prosecutors said.

Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, a one-time Waller County farm girl who oversaw record-keeping and election functions of the nation's third largest county, announced Friday she will not seek a fifth term next year.

Authorities say a 54-year-old man fell to his death while working on a tugboat in the Houston Ship Channel.

A state appeals court judge from Houston will become the first Hispanic woman to sit on the Texas Supreme Court.

A Harris County Jail inmate who was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital died last month as a result of the swine flu virus, Houston health officials confirmed today.

Gotcha! Houston police have finally caught the gunman in a 2004 murder, hunting him all across the United States and Mexico before arresting him Tuesday in Houston.

The true cause of one's demise may not always be what's on their official certificate of death.

Wet roads played a role in two separate accidents that left two law enforcement officers dead Saturday night.

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Before coming to Houston ISD, Josiah Franklin worked in the Austin, Klein, Clear Creek and Pasadena school districts.