Art Acevedo

Houston-area authorities announced Tuesday a new task force to combat a more than 30% rise in road rage incidents this year, an increase that officials are blaming in part on the ongoing stress during the coronavirus pandemic.

A longtime Houston police officer was killed and a second officer, a teenager and the suspected gunman were all wounded during a gun battle over domestic property Tuesday morning, police say. Acevedo said officers arrived at the apartment in southwest Houston at about 8 a.m. Tuesday where they met a woman who said she was moving out and needed to…

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Thursday announced plans to retire from his post as the city’s top cop after less than four years leading the department.

A federal judge is set to listen to final arguments before deciding whether to approve an agreement settling a lawsuit that resulted in the bail system in Texas’ most populous county being declared unconstitutional for those arrested on lesser offenses.

The Houston Police Department has unveiled a new crime lab in a move to speed up service and shed its scandal-ridden past linked to a backlog of rape kits.

Police in Houston say an officer is in surgery after being shot by one of four men who allegedly stole a car at gunpoint and later beat up a priest.

An 18-year-old driver has been arrested after he was seen speeding past a stopped school bus in West Houston.

The Houston police chief says a citywide crackdown has led to a 75% increase in the number of people arrested for drunken driving in the first six months of this year.

A man who had tried to flee a traffic stop opened fire on police, wounding a Houston officer, before police fatally shot him, the city’s police chief says.

Immigrant families and advocates are warning about arrests planned around the country by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But little is known about the agency’s work and how it carries out arrests of people suspected of being in the country illegally.

Immigrant families and advocates are warning about arrests planned around the country by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But little is known about the agency’s work and how it carries out arrests of people suspected of being in the country illegally.

Prosecutors on Thursday accused Houston police of dragging their feet in the ongoing investigation into a deadly January drug raid that killed a couple and injured five officers.

Newly tested DNA evidence led to the re-arrest of a man accused of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as he walked home from school in 2016, authorities said Tuesday.

Houston’s police chief says evidence shows that a 4-year-old girl who has been missing since earlier this month was killed and he’s asking for the public’s help in finding her body.

Tony Palmer, president of global brands and innovation at Kimberly Clark, is leaving the Irving-based company where he’s worked for 13 years to become CEO of TropicSport. Palmer co-founded the company that makes sunscreens with his wife Lisa Palmer. TropicSport’s products have been on the market since December 2017. It’s headquartered in Dallas and so far the company said it…......

Houston’s police chief has announced officers will no longer use no-knock warrants, just weeks after a drug raid on a home in which two suspects were fatally shot and five undercover officers were injured

Houston’s police chief says a lead investigator lied in an affidavit justifying a drug raid on a home in which two residents were killed and four officers were wounded during a gun battle.

Houston’s police chief is distancing his agency from comments made by the head of the police union that seemed to imply this week’s shooting that injured five officers was due partly to anti-police rhetoric.

One of four undercover narcotics officers shot while serving a search warrant at a suspected drug house in Houston was a “tough as nails” supervisor who has been struck by gunfire two other times in his career, the city’s police chief said.