Houston police are investigating reports of a double homicide in a neighborhood near Texas Southern University. KHOU reports that the bodies of two children, 5 and 7, were discovered underneath a neighbor’s home. The station reports that their mother is currently the main suspect.
5 Rosenberg officers hospitalized for formaldehyde exposure
Authorities: Harris County deputy shot man at his home
Mayor packs the house for back-to-school fest
They joined an estimated 25,000 children and their families at the University of Houston’s main campus for the sixth-annual event, which provides free school supplies, vision screenings, dental exams, immunizations and other services to low-income students.
Pokémon event attracts hundreds to Houston museum
Dallas police arrest owner of “dangerous dog”
The Dallas Police Department has arrested the owner of a dangerous dog, a first ever for the department, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Multiple people injured after incident at a Port Arthur refinery
Authorities said three to four people have been injured Friday after an incident at a refinery in the Port Arthur area.
A guide to Texas demonyms from a Texas word scholar
Ever wondered what to call someone from Dallas, besides wrong? This week the Texas Standard published a handy guide to Texas demonyms so you will always know what to call your cousin from Refugio.
In Texas, a man who didn’t kill anybody is about to be executed for murder
On Aug. 24, 2016 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice plans to execute Jeffrey Lee Wood for the 1996 death of a man he did not kill – and, by some accounts, did not know was going to be killed.
Texas ‘Santa Claus’ gets 15 years for child porn
A Texas man who worked as Santa Claus was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography.
Teen accused of killing parents back in court
A 16-year-old accused of killing his parents will remain behind bars, a juvenile judge ruled at a status hearing Friday.
The teen’s parents, former Texas A&M University football star Antonio Armstrong and wife, Dawn Armstrong, both 42, were fatally shot in their southwest Houston home in the early morning hours of July 29.
Texas woman hit with $700 fine for selling tamales
A Carrollton mother is fighting a $700 fine that the city doled out to her for selling tamales without a license.
Houston’s biggest malls through the years
This week as a part of our Chron 115 series we looked at the history of The Galleria, which opened in 1970 with three stories and 600,000 square feet of shopping. Over the years many additions would be made as the city grew up around it.
Bail set for brothers accused in Kush sweep
Two brothers accused of selling Kush and other illegal drugs out of three Houston smoke shops will remain in jail on $400,000 bail, a judge ruled Friday.
Discovery Green finally had to ask Pokemon Go to remove the park from its app
Citing concerns about people visiting the downtown park after hours, the Discovery Green Conservancy released a statement this week asking that those playing Pokémon Go observe the park’s regular hours. They also want the app to leave them off the game.
Harris County couple found dead of likely heat-related causes
A husband and wife with a broken air conditioner have died in what officials are investigating as possibly the summer’s first heat-related deaths in Harris County.
Texas man rides horse into Taco Bell
Lathan Crump rolled into a Taco Bell in north Texas on a horse.
Fulshear police help family rid garage of alligator visitor
Late Thursday night Fulshear police were called out to a family’s home to help extricate an unwanted visitor from their garage.
Will America look more like Texas?
If Harris County looks more like America’s demographic future, then you might be surprised to learn that Montgomery County looks more like its demographic present.
‘We will cut all of your heads off’: Texas mosque threatened by man claiming to be Army veteran
Leaders of the Masjid al-Sahaabah mosque in Watauga, Texas, have grown accustomed to receiving several threatening voice mails on their answering machine each week.
Man shot, killed at southwest Houston apartment complex
A man died in a shooting late Thursday night at an apartment complex in southwest Houston.
Abandoned Downtown Houston hotel makes another run at new life
Vacated in 1998, the property became a haven for brave urban explorers and the area’s homeless who took their chances venturing inside. In its previous life, the 30-story hotel had 600 rooms, good enough to be touted as the largest Holiday Inn in the continental United States in 1972.
Man convicted in 14-year-old murder case
A DNA sample obtained during a Houston man’s time in jail on a drug charge in 2011 led on Thursday to a life sentence for him in the murder of a young woman that had remained unsolved for more than a decade. There were no signs of forced entry into the apartment, Harris County sheriff’s deputies said at the time. The sample was placed into a national database and was later determined to be a match for the DNA located inside Thurman’s apartment, officials said.
Protester of proposed Houston-Dallas high-speed rail line shouts “remember Pearl Harbor”
Video has surfaced of an anti-train protester yelling “Remember Pearl Harbor” at a recent event protesting the bullet train that’s proposed to go from Houston to Dallas.
Houston mayor backs ‘Ike Dike’ storm-surge protection proposal
Reports: Man airlifted to hospital after sustaining chemical burns
According to reports, a 51-year-old man who sustained chemical burns to his face, chest, back and waist was airlifted to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Thursday afternoon.
Houston mom finds hacked live-stream of daughters’ bedroom online
According to reports, a Houston mother learned that someone hacked a webcam positioned at her daughter’s bedroom.
Former Miss Corpus Christi, Caitlin Cifuentes, now wanted by police
Corpus Christi Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for any information that leads to the arrest of former Miss Corpus Christi Latina, Caitlin Cifuentes.
NOAA increases predicted storms during Atlantic hurricane season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has upped the odds of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season to be “above average.”
The federal agency on Thursday released its updated hurricane outlook for the season and are now predicting 12-17 named storms, five to eight hurricanes including two to four that could become major hurricanes.
Infamous Houston brothel in national spotlight with episode of CNN’s ‘The Hunt With John Walsh’
An infamous Houston sex trafficking case, in which sex slaves were forced to engage in prostitution with tens of thousands of clients at an East End brothel, will be featured Sunday on “The Hunt With John Walsh.”
Trump to face grilling as he stumps among evangelicals
Thrice-married playboy millionaire real estate developer and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump will meet with 700 evangelical leaders Thursday to explain how he can make the United States a more godly nation.
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