Harris County News

A recently released report from the Texas Department of Transportation lists several bridges in Harris County as either "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete." These bridges are a mixture of those maintained by the state and federal governments and those maintained by local municipalities.

A Houston motorist who led police on a chase that began in Humble and ended in a fatality in Houston now faces a felony murder charge in the case, Harris County prosecutors said.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas Deputies said the man who was found in a northwest Harris County roadway late Thursday was stabbed and shot inside a nearby home before he stumbled outside and collapsed.

Houstonians are getting set for the Memorial Day weekend. While travel is down across the country, it's actually up in Texas.

In Miami Sgt. Altarr Williams and detective Frankie Sanchez investigate the murder of Darrell Harrell, gunned down for trying to push a group of drug dealers out of Overtown.

A 25-year-old Tomball man intentionally torched his mother's car because he was upset that she would not buy him a new truck, according to the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.

Update 2:04 PM : Sen. Estes spoke with Rep. Thompson by phone from the Senate floor to clarify what he called a miscommunication.

On Friday, May 17, seven buses of Wounded Warriors arrived at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

Members of the Texas Houses have expanded their retaliation against the Senate for failing to move their bills.

An Amber Alert was issued late Wednesday morning for an 18-month-old boy taken from his mother by his biological father, the sheriff's office said.

Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that even as local police close the active part of their investigation into her ... (more)

Ruby Cole Session of Fort Worth, the mother of wrongly convicted inmate Timothy Brian Cole, was honored on the floor of the Texas Senate on Tuesday for her achievements as an educator, criminal justice reformer and a "fierce champion of the wrongly accused." The Senate resolution, introduced by Sen.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas A man died after being shot at a sports bar on the northwest side of town early Tuesday, investigators said.

An off-duty Harris County sheriff's deputy has been killed in a traffic accident that's led to another driver charged with intoxication manslaughter.

A Houston man was shot in the head after he confronted another man who had dragged his wife out of a nail salon during a domestic dispute, police said.

A shooting suspect is put into the back of Harris County Precinct 4 Constable vehicle at the scene of a shooting at a nail salon near the intersection of FM 1960 and Aldine Westfield Friday, May 17, 2013, in Houston.

According to the state of Texas, on Dec. 17, 1999, Robert Pruett , 20, took a sharpened metal rod wrapped with tape and stabbed prison guard Daniel Nagle eight times, prompting a heart attack that killed the guard.

CONROE, Texas A Harris County, Texas teen is accused of sexually assaulting his 6-year-old cousin in Conroe and posting sexually explicit videos and photos of the boy on the Internet.

Just days after the conviction of a Philadelphia abortion doctor, a Houston doctor is also accused of performing illegal abortions.

Authorities say a teenager has died at a Houston-area hospital after he was shot while in a car with several other youths.