La Marque police

A grand jury has declined to indict a Texas police officer in the death of a Black man who was shot as he ran away after being confronted, authorities said Tuesday.

Police in a Houston suburb released body camera footage Monday of an officer fatally shooting a Black man in the back, though key moments of the nighttime encounter were missing or obscured.

The attorney for the family of a young, Black man who was fatally shot last week by a police officer in a Houston suburb said Tuesday that the family is planning to release results of an independent autopsy in the death.

A 2-year-old Southeast Texas boy is found safe Friday and two people — including the boy’s mother — are arrested after the child was reportedly kidnapped.

A judge has certified a 15-year-old Texas boy to stand trial as an adult in the fatal stabbing and strangling of his mother at their Houston-area home.

A convicted kidnapper who might be linked to other violent crimes has been helping investigators digging in a rural area of Houston look for the body of a teenager who disappeared nearly 20 years ago, his attorney said Friday.

A man has been charged with capital murder in the slaying of his pregnant girlfriend, found dead in the couple’s Southeast Texas apartment.

La Marque police say a 4-year-old girl drowned after disappearing during a birthday party.