Harris County

Two people were killed and three more were taken to a hospital with injuries after a shooting Sunday at a bustling Houston flea market, authorities said.

Attorneys for a man accused of shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at an ATM say that he was only trying to defend himself when he fired at a man who had held him and his wife at gunpoint

Officials in Texas say a constable deputy has been shot and killed during an apparent traffic stop early Sunday morning in southwest Houston

New details paint a clear picture of the deplorable conditions three abandoned Houston children lived in for months after their brother was killed.

A Texas agency on Monday approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.

The Texas Secretary of State’s office announced on Thursday it has launched a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election in the two largest Democrat and two largest Republican counties – Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin counties.

Three female deputies filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing a Texas constable of turning the office’s undercover operations into a “booze-fueled playground for sexual exploitation.”

Four members of a Houston family face murder charges after being accused of ambushing and killing a neighbor in what police say may be a case of mistaken identity.

A 9-month-old tiger that frightened residents after it was seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood was found Saturday and appears “unharmed,” police say.

The whereabouts of a tiger that was found briefly wandering a Houston neighborhood remained unknown on Wednesday as the Texas man who police allege owns the animal was released on bond.

President Joe Biden has nominated the sheriff of one of the nation’s most populous counties to lead the agency that deports people in the country illegally.

Health officials in Harris County scrambled Monday to administer more than 5,000 COVID-19 vaccines after a deadly winter storm caused a power outage in a facility storing the doses.

A federal judge in Texas rejected a lawsuit seeking to invalidate nearly 127,000 drive-thru ballots that were cast in a Democratic-leaning area of Houston.

The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area.

A man police say was fleeing a traffic stop Tuesday night when he struck and killed a Houston-area police sergeant is once again back into custody and is now facing a capital murder charge, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Department. Tavores Dewayne Henderson, the subject of a Blue Alert and a statewide manhunt, was arrested at his home...

A Blue Alert has been issued for a handcuffed man police say broke free from officers during a traffic stop in suburban Houston Tuesday night, got behind the wheel of a car and struck a police sergeant, killing her. Nassau Bay police Sgt. Kaila Sullivan was assisting in a traffic stop Tuesday night at an apartment complex when police discovered…

Rapper Kanye West told parishioners at Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch on Sunday that his recent spiritual awakening has made him realize he’s no longer in the service to fame and money but “in service to God.” West spoke to a packed crowd of about 16,000 people at Lakewood Church’s 11 a.m. service during an interview with Osteen from the stage....

A judge has ordered that a Houston man charged with capital murder in the slaying of a sheriff’s deputy be held without bond.

A Texas prosecutor says a 39-year-old man killed six members of his ex-wife’s family as part of a plan to harm anyone who had helped the woman.

Workers at shelters in the Houston area say some animals respond to a variety of spoken languages