Harris County

In today’s COVID headlines, we look at the federal mask mandate for travel, the newest COVID case numbers in the U.S., a New Zealand lockdown after a single case of COVID was confirmed in Auckland, Harris County Judge’s vaccine monetary incentive, how to get a vaccination at the State Fair of Texas and our NBC 5 survey you can...

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced Tuesday the county will pay $100 to any person who gets their first COVID-19 vaccine at a Harris County Public Health site by Aug. 31.

Judge Hidalgo will hold a news conference Tuesday to announce a major new public health initiative to address the ongoing COVID-19 emergency.

The death of former NCAA national champion sprinter Cameron Burrell has been ruled a suicide, a medical examiner’s office announced Friday.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced the county health authority had issued an order requiring that people must wear masks when inside any public school, non-religious private school or licensed child care center in the county.

A man who fatally shot his pregnant ex-wife and her boyfriend in the parking lot of a Houston soccer park as children played in a tournament was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said.

Prosecutors on Thursday charged a woman with capital murder in the death of a 5-year-old Houston boy she had been caring for and whose body was allegedly kept in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel.

Two suburban Houston officers and a jailer were indicted Thursday in an alleged assault of a man during a traffic stop.

A grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict a former Houston-area health department doctor who was accused of stealing nine doses of coronavirus vaccine from a damaged vial and administering them to family and friends.

Authorities say they might have found the weapon used to kill a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body was allegedly kept in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel early this month.

The body of a newborn baby was found Thursday in a portable toilet at a Houston-area riverside park, authorities said.

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 tiger that frightened residents after it was last seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood has been found and appears to be unharmed, police announced Saturday evening.

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.

Top leaders in the Texas county where George Floyd grew up supported a resolution Tuesday calling for him to be posthumously pardoned for a 2004 drug arrest by a former Houston police officer now facing murder charges in a separate case.

Neighbors in Houston were doing double-takes after spotting a tiger sunbathing in a front yard Sunday. Now authorities are searching for the owner.

A Katy man is facing a murder charge after authorities allege he killed his mother when he drove into a group of people who had been fighting in the parking lot of a restaurant, according to authorities.

One woman died and several other people were injured when a driver struck a group of people in the parking lot of a suburban Houston restaurant following a reported fight early Thursday, police said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit announced making several noteworthy arrests recently, including two wanted men in Dallas.