Juan A. Lozano

The trial for a teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school will be delayed while he receives mental health treatment, his attorney said Monday. The news comes after three experts — one for the defense, one appointed by the court and one picked by prosecutors — found Dimitrios Pagourtzis incompetent to stand trial, said Nick...

A federal agency says a company that owns a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility that burned for days in March didn’t have an alert system in place to warn of releases from its tanks.

A man who prosecutors say was driven by vengeance when he fatally shot six members of his ex-wife’s family in Texas, including four children, was sentenced Friday to death, a decision the lone survivor of the attack says will help her let go of “hurt and anger.”

A Texas inmate who claimed he was intellectually disabled was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing his two stepsons during a 2007 attack in which his wife also died.

The head of Texas’ prison system has acknowledged state officials have violated a settlement of a lawsuit over oppressive heat faced by some state prisoners

A Texas death row inmate was executed Tuesday for fatally shooting a 61-year-old grandmother at her North Texas home nearly a decade ago during an eight-day spate of crimes that included thefts and another killing.

A young woman told jurors Tuesday that she begged her uncle “please don’t hurt us” and then began to pray before he fatally shot her parents and four siblings and shot her in the head in their suburban Houston home.

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.

The mother of a missing 4-year-old Texas girl was heckled outside a courtroom on Monday by people who questioned if she had done enough to protect her daughter before her disappearance.

Two new photos obtained from a police source in Houston may shed new details into the disappearance of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, a young girl missing since May 3. A photo obtained Monday by KRPC-TV in Houston may show the last time Maleah was seen before her disapperance. According to a KPRC-TV police source, the surveillance photo shows the child with...

An 18-year-old accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school will now be facing 11 federal charges connected to the attack, his attorney said Monday.

Officials say they have started working on 134 flood control projects as part of a $2.5 billion bond program approved by Houston-area voters last fall in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

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.

Authorities are interviewing “persons of interest” in the Dec. 30 shooting death of a 7-year-old Houston girl, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office tweeted late Saturday.

The mother of a 7-year-old black girl killed during a Houston shooting says the deadly incident happened so fast she didn’t see anything “but shattered glass and bullets” coming toward her car

A Texas inmate has been executed for the fatal shooting more than 25 years ago of a newlywed who was attacked as he and his wife walked on a jogging trail in Mesquite.

The Texas Supreme Court has reversed itself and granted the state’s request to review a case dealing with the disclosure of an execution drug supplier that officials have fought for years to keep secret.

Houston’s city council has changed a city ordinance in a move that would essentially stop a so-called robot brothel from opening.

A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally running over his girlfriend in a jealous rage more than 18 years ago. It was the state’s second execution in as many days.

A Canadian company says it wants to open a so-called robot brothel in Houston, but it’s getting pushback from officials and community groups.