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The Harris County Sheriff's Office said Friday that a Spring teen's accusations that she had been raped by a classmate that led to a boy's stabbing was a lie.

In the middle of the night on April 26, Kristen Anet Sanchez was on her cell phone pleading for help.

A toxicology report of a Galveston County woman, who drowned in her flipped over car as she begged for help in a 911 call, shows the 20-year-old was drunk and high on ecstasy when she crashed.

Two good Samaritans were credited with saving a man from a burning home on Yale Street in northwest Houston Friday night.

Two good Samaritans were credited with saving a man from a burning home on Yale Street in northwest Houston Friday night.

By SUZANNE MARTA / The Dallas Morning News smarta@dallasnews.com Downtown Dallas lodging options got an injection of style Friday, with the opening of the flashy Adam D. Tihany-designed Joule hotel.

Staking its first claim to industrial real estate in Texas, Hines REIT Inc. has paid $42.8 million to Dividend Capital Trust for two buildings in the 180-acre DFW Trade Center.

Though panned by some critics, if fan reaction is any indication, the "Sex and the City" movie still sizzles.

Emergency crews were called to the scene of a 2-alarm apartment fire in northwest Harris County Friday afternoon.

The parents of an unarmed teenager shot to death in 2003 by a rookie police officer say they are happy with the Houston City Council's decision to settle their lawsuit.

When people in distress call 911, dispatch centers immediately start tracing their locations.

Sadiya Evangelista takes pride in the way she looks. But a recent trip to a southeast Houston nail salon left her with a face she never bargained for.

The Houston Zoo recently recorded a first with the birth of a rare and endangered babirusa pig.

Federal agents in Laredo seized a statue of Jesus Christ they say is made of cocaine.

One person is dead and a woman is in the hospital after shootings in southeast Houston.

Several cats are shaken up and their veterinarian is angry after a suspected drunk driver crashed through their Montrose building early Thursday morning.

The parents of an unarmed teenager shot to death in 2003 by a rookie police officer said they are happy with the Houston City Council's decision to settle their lawsuit.

The Houston Zoo recently recorded a first with the birth of a rare and endangered babirusa pig.

Everyone, including legends like Doctor Neil Frank, has mentors. Doc looked up to Dr.

The mayor of Houston says the city will continue to oppose chemical industry attempts to receive or renew emissions permits.

It took Texas City police between 22 and 26 minutes to find a woman who called 911 and eventually drowned after her car swerved off a highway and flipped over in a pond, according to police records obtained by ...

A firefighter who stopped to pick up a hamburger before rushing to help a woman in respiratory distress has been fired.

Here in Houston, we're known nationwide for our unbearable summers, but maybe we should be known for the unbearable cost of trying to keep cool.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI are investigating a report by the pilot of Continental Flight 1544 shortly after the plane took off from Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport enroute to ...

It is bad enough that gasoline is hovering around $4 a gallon, but the ethanol blend of gas pumped into many cars - containing up to 10 percent of ethanol - is also causing problems.

Federal agents Tuesday arrested the reputed leader and nine members of one of Galveston County's biggest drug distribution street gangs.

An eldery woman driving the wrong way was killed late Monday night after slamming into an oncoming SUV.

Continental Flight 1544 was flying at 5,000 feet about 11 miles east of Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport after takeoff this morning when the pilot called the tower to report an object headed toward the plane.

Houstonians paid tribute to fallen heroes Monday. Crowds gathered at the Houston VA National Cemetery for a big Memorial Day ceremony.

Two Kingwood teens were killed in a gruesome car crash Sunday night. The girls had just left a birthday party and were headed for a Starbucks on West King Road when police believe they attempted to pass a car.

A Texas man has joined the fight to return hundreds of polygamist children to their parents at a West Texas compound.

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston have identified family history as one reason why some people might be more susceptible to shingles, a severe skin condition.

Officials released the name of the teen killed in a freak accident in Santa Fe Friday.

Close to 4,500 flags were placed in Hermann Park in memory of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan Sunday.

When Memorial Day weekend arrives every year, the dog days of summer aren't far behind.

The day Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church crumbled into shards of bricks and a pile of rubble, tears filled the eyes of the people who had tried to save the historic structure.

But their grief was not just for this 68-year-old building in the heart of Houston's Fourth Ward.

On this recent Friday, the solemn and stricken group was also crying for all the other now-vanished fragments of Freedmen's Town, the nation's only remaining post-Civil War historic district built by freed slaves.

Thanks to the tenacity of a Louisiana state trooper, former Herndon pastor and "America's Most Wanted" fugitive Jack Clark has been brought to justice.

A child was Life Flighted to the hospital Saturday after a television crushed his torso.

A man is in custody Saturday morning after causing a major accident in northwest Harris County.

A Sam Houston High School student had to receive medical attention after being bitten by a rabies-infested bat, health officials said.

They are the most dedicated among us: the thousands of service men and women from the Houston area, risking their lives in the Middle East.

A baby's body was found inside a freezer at a southwest Houston motel on Friday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

A school day ended in tragedy in Santa Fe Friday when a student was run over and killed.

The prospect of $4-a-gallon gas seems inevitable, yet it's still hard to believe.

Police made a gruesome discovery Friday morning when they were called to a West Houston hotel room.

This Memorial Day weekend, Texas consumers will be able to save a little green by going green.

A former doctor serving a decade in federal prison for bilking millions from insurance companies was sentenced Thursday to an additional year after admitting he asked a fellow inmate to arrange to have a ...

Three people were killed in a horrific accident with an 18-wheeler just outside of Katy early Friday morning.

A life in pictures reveals much about a popular weatherman. "Family was very important to him, and anytime he wasn't working - he spent time with is family," daughter Debra Tucker said.

A blood donation van was stolen from Ben Taub Hospital after an all-day blood drive Thursday.

Carolyn Jessop, a 40-year-old mother of eight, lived on the FLDS compound ruled by Warren Jeffs in Arizona for most of her life.

At the Palms on Rolling Creek, residents have a problem: Cats, cats and more cats.

Two suspected beer thieves were shot after swiping a cases of Corona and Budweiser from a Houston convenience store.

The family of a self-proclaimed CIA operative who was shot by HPD last month is still struggling with their loved one's death.

A 3-year-old girl was apparently beaten to death in a southeast Houston shed, police told KPRC Local 2. Houston police said that shortly after 4 p.m. Monday, a mother called 911 from inside a one-room shed off ...

A short in a light fixture sparked a fire that killed a 65-year-old man in Crystal Beach Wednesday morning.

On Wednesday 11 News was invited to take a boat ride to return to a painful place: The cross on that small spit of land where little Riley Ann Sawyers was found last October.

Some Houstonians believe there could be a backlash against immigrants in the wake of the Juan Quintero verdict.

American Airlines, hit hard by escalating fuel prices, said Wednesday passengers will be hit with fees to check any bag, starting with tickets purchased after June 15.

A couple of fishermen were sweating it out Wednesday morning when their small boat got stuck on the Lake Houston dam.

HOUSTON – An illegal immigrant convicted of killing a Houston police officer will spend the rest of his life in prison without any chance of parole.

HOUSTON -- Inside Harris County Homicide, there can be some slow days. But that can change in a Texas minute for the elite squad known as Bay 3.

HOUSTON -- On the night that Barack Obama gathered the majority of the pledged delegates needed to garner the Democratic nomination for president, two political heavyweights – one a Republican and one a Democrat – said Obama should consider reaching out to Hillary Clinton to create a possible unbeatable “dream ticket.”

HOUSTON -- Right now, in the heart of Texas, a world-renowned paleontologist is digging up the world’s oldest known, and largest, predator.

Law enforcement officials threw a surprise party of sorts for accused criminals in Brazoria County this week.

School officials at Santa Fe Junior High confiscated kids' cell phones after nude images of two female students were forwarded to their classmates.

A brutal double murder that sent chills through a Spring neighborhood has been solved, according to community activist Quanell X. He said the man who claimed he found his mother and grandmother dead Friday ...

A local jury has decided that a Mexican national who was convicted of killing a Houston police officer should spend the rest of his life in prison without any chance of parole.

A 41-year-old man has been charged in the death of his wife's 3-year-old daughter .

Police discovered a dead body in a closet after neighbors reported a foul odor and blood leaking through the ceiling of their apartment.

Police said a woman's ex-boyfriend shot and killed her current boyfriend outside her home in the Spring Branch area early Tuesday morning.

Police have released a sketch of a suspect in the 18-year-old “Lover’s Lane” slayings of a couple after DNA evidence linked that case to the rape of an exotic dancer just two months before their deaths.

Police are tracking down thieves who are stealing shopping carts from local stores and then turning them into getaway carts for other crimes.

HOUSTON – An apartment fire over the weekend that killed a blind, wheelchair-bound woman, may have been an attempt by a gang to kill a rival crew member, Houston investigators told 11 News.

HOUSTON -- A 3-year-old girl died Monday. And police believe a man, described as the mother’s common-law husband, may be responsible for the toddler’s death.

HOUSTON -- Bars in Houston are supposed to close no later than 2 a.m., but some operate outside the law. So, when Houston police launched a raid of one of the most popular after-hours bars in town, 11 News was invited to tag along.

HOUSTON -- Dr. Neil Frank, KHOU-TV's chief meteorologist for 20 years, will sign off for the last time this month and go into retirement.

HOUSTON -- As a jury decides if a convicted cop killer should be jailed or given a death sentence, the slain officer’s widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the man that employed her husband’s killer. She is also considering suing the city because of its single officer patrol policy.

The e-mails are from 2004 and 2005, and appear to violate DPS policy. Several years ago 11 News broke the story of a racially-charged birthday party for a black trooper, where co-workers showed up dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan.

If you're a homeowner ready to get rid of that old couch or unload a broken coffee table, you know how important the heavy trash pick-up is.

Houston police say three women have identified a suspect as the man who raped them.

At Mia Bella Tratoria in downtown Houston the thought of repeat Superbowl crowds is just as mouth watering as some of the food they offer up on the menu.

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A West Palm Beach cemetery accused of desecrating graves and mishandling burials has been renamed in a rededication ceremony.

Subject : high school photojournalism One ring. Five fingers. Seven birds. A blue sky.

Harris County Deputies are trying to track down a gunman who shot a man in another car on the highway.

Dozens of police officers were on the scene of a drug raid at a downtown nightclub when a stolen ambulance came crashing into two patrol cars, police say.

The Lynchburg Ferry closed as emergency personnel prepared to search the Houston Ship Channel for a man whose pickup went into the water.

A Houston Independent School District patrol car overturned during a wreck early Monday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

An historical church just east of downtown collapsed Friday morning, and firefighters are evacuating residents in fear the building's walls will come down.

A laptop computer containing the personal information of about 8,000 students was stolen this week from a Spring ISD employee's car.

A 14-year-old girl is in serious condition after getting caught behind a pool table and in the middle of a dispute.

Louis Cerney and Brenda Smith have grown pretty close over the last ten years. Cerney, 65, is a retired pharmacist who has rheumatoid arthritis.

Everyone wants to talk to Marche Taylor. Taylor is the 17-year-old Madison High School senior whose skimpy prom dress got her barred from her high school prom. She was escorted out of the prom in handcuffs after arguing with school officials who wouldn't let her in.

Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

HOUSTON -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

A jury cleared a former Galveston County Daily News photographer Wednesday of a charge that he interfered with police during 2007’s Mardi Gras.

DICKINSON, Texas -- Galveston County Sheriff’s Deputies were led on a high-speed chase after a shooting Wednesday night. The chase didn’t last that long after the suspects turned down a road that dead-ended into Galveston Bay.

Sam Houston High School is a running out of time. The troubled school has underperformed on the state TAKS test for five years now. So, last week HISD administrators announced a proposal to improve the school. It started with a management shakeup, including the hiring of a new principal.

GALENA PARK, Texas— Four North Shore High School students claim they caught one of their teachers watching porn and masturbating in a school classroom Wednesday afternoon.

Harris County Sheriff's deputies were searching for a pickup truck that drove into the water near the Lynchburg Ferry.

Four students at North Shore High School made shocking allegations against a teacher Wednesday.

Police never know when they might need to put on a gas mask. 11 News photo The Houston Police Department says Sergeant Shelby Stewart's goatee would get in the way.

About 350 IBM finance and accounting employees in Tulsa will lose their jobs as the company moves the positions to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In the next two minutes, four teenagers will drop out of school. The national average is one every 26 seconds.

This time last year, cleaning other people's homes would have left Erica Knight-Muck drained especially since she has headaches. But a new procedure has helped her be headache free.

The Houston Independent School District says Key Middle School will stay open despite continuing problems with moisture.

Veteran Houston news anchor Ron Stone passed away Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.