Houston police

A 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of a 51-year-old woman in suburban Houston.

An audit of a Houston Police Department narcotics unit that’s been under scrutiny following a deadly 2019 drug raid found that officers made hundreds of errors in cases, often weren’t thorough in their investigations, lacked supervision and overpaid informants for the seizure of minuscule amounts of drugs.

A Houston police officer injured in a police helicopter crash that killed another officer was in serious condition Sunday at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, according to spokesperson Natasha Barrett.

Tom Brady’s jerseys are back in his care after they were stolen in the revelry following the New England Patriots’ last two Super Bowl wins.

A Texas grand jury reviewing the death of a 4-year-old girl has reported that her mother’s ex-fiance restricted her airway with an unknown object.

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.

A Texas grand jury has declined to indict the onetime deputy to Cardinal Daniel DiNardo on charges he sexually assaulted a married woman in a case that raised questions about consent in the #MeToo era.

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.

Hundreds of panicked people rushed out of a Houston mall after a masked man jumped on a food court table and said he would kill himself before throwing down an unknown object covered in toilet paper.

Hundreds of panicked people rushed out of a Houston mall after a masked man jumped on a food court table and said he would kill himself before throwing down an unknown object covered in toilet paper.

Houston police say two men have died in gunfire following a rush hour traffic accident in which a suspect blamed for the Intestate 10 wreck opened fire and then fled

A 20-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for pointing a laser at a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter on patrol

A new law legalizing hemp in Texas is creating problems for authorities that will likely cost millions of dollars to fix and has temporarily stopped the prosecution of some misdemeanor cases involving marijuana, hemp’s plant cousin

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.

The Texas state comptroller has denied compensation to a man who served 12 years on death row for a murder prosecutors and a judge have said he didn’t commit.

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 police find large stash of meth and heroin in suspect’s truck following a high-speed chase

Prosecutors say DNA evidence has cleared a man who had been accused of driving drunk and injuring two Houston police officers during a fiery crash.