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Pro-life, pro-choice groups respond to possible precedent of McKinney murder indictment BY DANNY GALLAGHER, McKinney Courier-Gazette A McKinney man accused of beating a woman and killing her unborn child will ...

A Willowridge High School teacher was jailed in Pearland Wednesday morning, accused of having sexual relationships with several high school students.

As Hurricane Dolly approaches the Texas-Mexico border this morning heavy rains are falling just north of the storm's core.

A slimmed-down murder suspect who fled jail by slipping through a vent has been caught after a dip in a hotel pool on a hot summer night in Houston.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office plans to pay deputies to work overtime to cover for dozens of vacancies in the patrol division as county administrators begin studying the controversial contract deputy ...

Police are searching two men who they said may have information about the Monday drive-by shooting of a retired Houston police officer .

BP PLC on Tuesday settled the four lawsuits that remained in the latest civil trial resulting from the deadly 2005 explosion at its refinery near Houston.

Days after a massive crane fell at an east Houston construction site and killed four workers, another mobile crane fell in northeast Houston on Monday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

July 21, 2008, 1:15AM 2-year-old in critical condition after near drowning A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition after she nearly drowned in a swimming pool at a southwest Houston apartment complex Sunday ...

Another crane accident had rush hour drivers doing double takes on Highway 59 near Kingwood Drive.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night can stop the delivery of U.S. mail, but man's best friend is a different story.

Tropical Storm Dolly was moving over Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and heading for the Gulf of Mexico Monday.

July 20, 2008, 10:05PM Uncle saw 24-year-old girl die in west Houston townhouse Authorities are searching for a 30-year-old man who allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend at the west Houston townhome where ...

Photo Credit: AP Photo A collapsed crane is visible within the LyondellBasell Houston Refinery, Friday, July 18, 2008 in Houston.. One of the nation's largest mobile cranes collapsed at a Houston oil refinery ...

A probe of a federal judge being investigated for sexual harassment is now looking into whether he accepted gifts without reporting them and if rules were violated in a home sale deal arranged by a lawyer with ...

Four workers were killed and seven were injured this afternoon when a huge industrial crane collapsed at the LyondellBasell refinery in southeast Houston, a company official said.

Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Johnny Ray Jolly Jr. is scheduled to appear in court July 22 after being arrested last week in Houston on felony drug possession charges, according to police records.

Houston homicide detectives are investigating a shooting on the feeder road of the North Freeway near Rankin Road.

The largest mobile crane in the nation collapsed at a Houston oil refinery Friday, killing four workers and injuring six others in the latest of several fatal accidents that have raised concerns about the ...

Jaime Sanchez Martinez is currently being held in the Knox County Jail on a Texas murder charge and a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.