Harris County News

Yosvanis "El Cubano" Valle, 34, on death row at the Polunksy Unit in Livingston for the 1999 murder-robbery of a drug dealer, hopes to marry his girlfriend by proxy before he's executed Nov.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas Police are trying to find out who shot and killed an 18-year-old inside her home early Friday morning.

Lucas Coe, the 27-year-old Magnolia man accused of injury to a child in the death of 4-year-old Emma Thompson, now faces a new charge: that he also raped the young girl before her death in June.

A drama teacher at Episcopal high school was arrested Monday after being charged with three counts of possession of child pornography and one count of online solicitation of a minor.

Supporters of 11 propositions on the Texas ballot - including one to fund more top-tier research universities - made their final plea Monday for voter passage in what's shaping up as a low-turnout election.

You might think Mike Hinton's anger had ebbed in the 3-1/2 decades since, as a young Harris County assistant district attorney, he was assigned to prosecute Ronald Clark O'Bryan, the father accused of poisoning his own son's Halloween candy.

Police said a sleepy driver may have caused a head-on collision on Aldine Mail Route at Chrisman in north Harris County on Saturday.

The capital murder charge filed against a Texas boy accused of killing a baby when he was 12-years-old has been downgraded.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has thrown out the 25-year prison sentence a Houston jury gave a woman who was convicted of murder for stabbing her tied-up husband 193 times.

Legal counsel is a matter of life and death in Houston, but it is not necessarily tied to a defendant's socioeconomic status, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver .

A Harris County deputy constable shot and wounded a 17-year-old after the teen threatened officers with his car following a brief chase this weekend, officials said.

Officials at Prairie View A&M University say they are investigating the death of a 20-year-old student who went for an early morning run off campus.

Harris County Sheriff's Department deputies are searching for the gunman who broke into a Channelview-area trailer home and held a couple by gunpoint before shooting them.

Harris County's voter registrar's office and the Texas Democratic Party announced late Friday that they have reached a settlement in a lawsuit that originally accused former County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt of illegally blocking the registration of thousands of voters.

A high-speed chase ended abruptly Thursday afternoon when the suspect got out of his vehicle and laid down in the center of FM 1960.

The highest criminal court in Texas has denied appeals from two death row inmates, including a hit man in a murder-for-hire plot and another man convicted of killing his wife.

An Odessa woman charged in the shooting death of a soldier home on leave from Iraq tells lawmen that it was an accident.

At Arturo's Restaurant in Uptown Park, the food is top shelf and so is the staff.

Early voting begins today for Houston's mayor, City Council and controller, 11 proposed state constitutional amendments, Bellaire municipal offices, community college and public school boards and more.

A Pasadena high school student has died after catching the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.