Cleveland News

John Gregory, a master optician who designed some of the most specialized devices in astronomy, moved to Dripping Springs 35 ago for its wide-open sky, his son said.

At the official launch of businessman Democrat Farouk Shami's gubernatorial campaign earlier today, attendees picked up T-shirts, shook hands with the candidate and viewed his TV ad that debuts Friday.

Monsters of Folk at Stubb's . This combo of Jim James , Conor Oberst , raspy-voiced indie rocker M. Ward and producer/musician Mike Mogis released a self-titled debut in October, a low-key affair pulling from the diverse backgrounds of each member.

Sharon Raechele Torres, right, helps hold up her mother, Sharon Clark, as they and other family members attend the funeral Friday for Shara Torres and her daughter Sarah in Cleveland.

Supt. Donna Gill on Wednesday told The Associated Press that the fire was traced to an electrical problem in the school's concession stand.

San Jacinto County Sheriff James Walters on Tuesday promised a full inquiry into why seven hours passed before his deputies responded to repeated pleas for help for a bipolar man, arriving after the man killed three others and himself.

There are questions surrounding law enforcement's response to what turned into a triple murder-suicide in Cleveland, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

The sheriff of San Jacinto County has vowed a full inquiry into why it took seven hours to send deputies to a house where four people were found dead.

For seven hours Saturday, friends and relatives of Oliver "Bubba" Bills Jr. made repeated calls to the San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office seeking help for the man who was hallucinating and behaving more violently as the day progressed.

Friends and relatives of a Texas man who shot his family and then himself say that he was hallucinating and growing increasingly violent because he was off his medication.

Law enforcement made a gruesome discovery Saturday night when they found a couple, an elderly woman and a child shot to death inside a home on Outlaw Road, off of FM 1725 near Cleveland.

A welfare check on a family in San Jacinto County led to the discovery of four bodies in an apparent triple murder and a suicide.

November 2009 LIVINGSTON - Two Cleveland residents, Steven Scott Stowe and Joy Stowe were arrested and charged with burglary of a building after detectives identified the couple as being involved in a series of burglaries in Polk, San Jacinto and Liberty counties.

A woman's estranged husband grabbed her by the face and neck during an argument Wednesday night.

Patrick Noel Jernigan II separated from friends sometime after 11 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Northgate area near campus.

Emily George Grubbs didn't know anything about the two dark masks she had pulled out of a tissue-filled box, but one thing was obvious.

A teacher has been arrested on charges that she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.

Police arrested a Cleveland Middle School teacher in Conroe on Wednesday on a warrant for sexual assault of a child.

A woman who is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a middle school student is in police custody, more than one week after she resigned from the Cleveland Independent School District.

Fire destroyed part of a popular tourist spot in Liberty County on Sunday. Firefighters were dispatched to Chain-O-Lakes Resort and Conference Center off of FM 787 near Romayor around 5 p.m. where they found the two-story lodge ablaze.