Houston Metro News

Four workers were killed and seven were injured this afternoon when a huge industrial crane collapsed at the LyondellBasell refinery in southeast Houston, a company official said.

Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Johnny Ray Jolly Jr. is scheduled to appear in court July 22 after being arrested last week in Houston on felony drug possession charges, according to police records.

Houston homicide detectives are investigating a shooting on the feeder road of the North Freeway near Rankin Road.

The largest mobile crane in the nation collapsed at a Houston oil refinery Friday, killing four workers and injuring six others in the latest of several fatal accidents that have raised concerns about the ...

Jaime Sanchez Martinez is currently being held in the Knox County Jail on a Texas murder charge and a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

A sticky mess has been cleaned up after an overturned tanker truck poured 5,000 gallons of molasses onto a major Texas highway.

A suspect has been charged with murder in Wednesdays's rush hour shooting that left a Houston man dead.

A 30-year-old man who spent his days reading a Bible in a Houston church was arrested Tuesday for a Florida murder.

A serial bank robber has targeted three Houston banks in less than a month. The latest robbery was at the Wells Fargo Bank located inside Randall's Grocery Store on Westheimer.

Man killed by lightning strike Waco Police are keeping up with new technology on the non-lethal front.

Convicted steroid distributor Kirk Radomski handed over shipping receipts to federal investigators for a package of human growth hormone that he claims he sent to Roger Clemens' home in Texas in 2002 or 2003, ...

Firefighters spent several hours this morning fighting a blaze that ripped through a west Houston plant nursery business.

Houston homicide detectives are investigating the possible heat-related death of a mentally disabled man late Monday.

The family of a University of Texas at Austin student who died after a fraternity hazing binge-drinking party has settled its lawsuit against the fraternity and some of its members, the family's attorney said ...

A man has been charged in the death of an unidentified woman nearly 18 years ago, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

Oilman and philanthropist Roy M. Huffington has died. He was 90. Huffington, who had been an ambassador to Austria, died Friday while traveling out of the country.

Residents of a Pasadena apartment complex got a frightening wakeup call Friday morning when a massive fire tore through their homes.

The day West Houston commuters have been waiting for has finally arrived. All of the new, inbound lanes of the Katy Freeway between Voss and the Loop opened Monday morning.

Cleanup has begun after a fire destroyed the family-owned Cornelius Nurseries on Sunday.

Houston oilman Roy M. Huffington, who started his career as a geologist for the Humble Oil Company and went on to found his own oil and gas firm before serving as ambassador to Austria, has died.