Death Sentence Commuted For 2nd Texas Inmate In 2 Weeks Due To Intellectual Disabilities
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals changed the death sentence that Gilmar Guevara had faced to life in prison.
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals changed the death sentence that Gilmar Guevara had faced to life in prison.
A Harris County grand jury indicted Baytown Officer Juan Delacruz Monday for shooting Pamela Turner in the parking lot of an apartment complex where they both lived in May 2019.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Saturday that he's appealing a judge's decision to allow the Harris County clerk to send mail-in ballot applications to all registered voters in the county.
The most populous county in Texas can move forward with plans to send all registered voters a mail-in ballot application for the November general election, a state judge ruled Friday.
Union leaders denounced the firings, saying the officers followed their training and tried to de-escalate the situation but were forced to shoot 27-year-old Nicolas Chavez.
Two construction workers were rescued from a dangling platform on a high-rise building in Houston Wednesday.
The video showed then-Baytown Officer Nathaniel Brown throwing witness Skylar Gilmore, 24, to the ground and then using his knee to hit him in the shoulder and face.
The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped, for now, a plan to send more than 2 million mail-in ballot applications to registered Houston-area voters before the November election.
The fight over mail balloting in Texas grew Monday when the state sued to stop more than two million registered voters around Houston from receiving applications to submit their ballots by mail.
Southwest Airlines removed a passenger and her 3-year-old son from a Texas flight Monday after the boy, who has autism, refused to wear a face mask and became upset.
A Texas man is accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $1.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds and spending it on items such as a Lamborghini and at strip clubs, the Department of Justice said.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Monday instructed police to begin issuing $250 fines for flouting statewide mask orders.
A grand jury has indicted six former Houston police officers whose work with a narcotics unit has been under scrutiny since a 2019 drug raid in which a couple was killed.
No injuries or secondary damage was reported in the rupture and fire on the line owned by Lone Star NGL, company officials said.
A man in Texas allegedly shot and killed his grandmother while she was sleeping and then tried to stage her death as a drive-by shooting, authorities said Sunday.
A federal judge has ruled the Republican Party of Texas may hold its in-person convention in Houston this weekend, if needed, the party announced Friday.
The largest school district in Texas will begin the 2020-2021 school year after Labor Day and will be online only for at the least the first six weeks.
The decision came after the state GOP was left with few options.
Top officials in Houston are calling for the city to lock back down as area hospitals strain to accommodate the onslaught of patients sick with COVID-19.
A state judge on Thursday sided with the City of Houston and refused to reverse the city's decision to cancel the Texas Republican Party's in-person convention because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Republican Party of Texas filed a lawsuit against Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, Houston First Corporation and the City of Houston for breach of contract.
"The public health concerns outweighed anything else," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Wednesday afternoon.
Texas health officials on Tuesday reported a daily state record of nearly 7,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases.
A Texas mayor issued a curfew for her city on Friday in response to a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Juan Menchaca, a 14-year veteran Texas deputy, died Saturday after contracting COVID-19, authorities said.
