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Over 60 people went through decontamination and at least 26 people of them were taken to area hospitals after a chemical spill at a Hurricane Harbor in the Houston area, officials said.
A Texas father said a non-threatening hand gesture he made while on a highway triggered a shooting that killed his 17-year-old son. "So that hand gesture got my son executed and that's not fair," he said.
Investigators say a man opened fire at a married couple, killing one of them and wounding the other, before fatally shooting himself inside the Downtown Aquarium Restaurant in Houston.
Two people were killed and another injured in a shooting on the second floor of Houston's Downtown Aquarium.
Theresa Balboa, 29, previously was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence, a human corpse, in the death of Samuel Olson, whose father Balboa was dating.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the teen was hit by a car, which did not stop. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Houston police officer was critically wounded Monday, July 5 when a man opened fire after an argument with a woman over a parking spot, police said.
When authorities arrived, they found a man, a woman and a girl believed to be about 5 to 7 years old who were fatally shot.
Prosecutors alleged that Hasan Gokal, who worked for Harris County Public Health, stole a vial of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine while working at a vaccination site at a suburban Houston park.
A spokesperson for Houston Methodist system said 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension period or were terminated on Tuesday, June 22.
A second person has been charged in connection with the death of a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body was allegedly kept hidden in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel, authorities said Tuesday.
An off-duty Texas deputy constable's wife and his 4-year-old stepdaughter were shot early Sunday when a gunman forced entry into their home and opened fire, police said.
Investigators were able to match the bullet casing to the gun used by Nicholas Thomas' 3-year-old son on April 8, according to court documents.
The Houston Methodist Hospital system suspended 178 employees without pay last week over their refusal to get vaccinated.
An investigation is underway after police in Houston said a shooting was reported at a high school Wednesday morning and that a student was injured.
On Wednesday, the Houston Police Department said officers responded to the 9000 block of McAvoy where the people were being held at a house.
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said investigators are trying to confirm that the gunman is among the dead, and that he was fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff's deputy working security.
A pilot died and a passenger was injured after a small plane crashed after touching down on the runway at a Texas airport, officials said.
Eleven employees with a Texas sheriff's office have been fired and six others suspended following the death of an inmate who was hit multiple times in the head by detention officers.
Derion Vence was sentenced to 40 years on charges related to the death of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, who was reported missing for several weeks before her remains were found in Arkansas.
The deputies alleged women were subjected to unwarranted touching and kissing, molestation and sexual ridicule during their work with the office's human trafficking unit.
The move comes as part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's central policy to build, acquire or renovate oil refineries.
Houston area officials expressed shock and anger on Friday after learning that their communities, which suffered the brunt of damage from Hurricane Harvey, would be getting only a small part of the $1 billion in flood mitigation aid.
The 9-month-old tiger named India is now being cared for at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, an animal sanctuary in Murchison, Texas.
A tiger that frightened residents after it was last seen briefly wandering around a Houston neighborhood has been found and appears to be unharmed, police announced Saturday evening.
