Crime and Public Safety

Two people were arrested after deputies say they left four children at home alone while they went to a bar to drink.

Houston Police have charged a man for aggravated robbery after they say he robbed an 81-year-old man in a bank parking lot.

Police are investigating after a shooting victim was found in Buffalo Bayou Tuesday morning, making this the tenth body found since June.

Federal agents say a pair of suspected Houston-area mail thieves are in custody.

Barbie Robinson, the former executive director of Harris County Public Health, is facing a felony charge in an alleged bid rigging scheme.

A search is underway for two teens after a man was shot outside of his apartment early Tuesday morning, Houston police say.

A man was shot by an officer while police were attempting to detain a woman in Downtown Houston,= after it was reported the two were trespassing.

A man accused of going on a shooting rampage, killing six people last year, has been found incompetent to stand trial. Shane James Jr. may never face trial for the crimes in Austin and San Antonio.

The suspect, only identified as a juvenile male, led police on a chase before crashing into the back of a police car.

The tight-knit community of Sweeny grapples with the tragic loss of Michaela Tyler. Amidst an ongoing investigation with no arrests, her grandmother and co-workers at the daycare where Tyler worked speak out about the void left behind, highlighting her role as a caring teacher and the need for justice.

A 42-year-old Houston man named Akeem Boothe has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 37-year-old man following a dispute at an apartment complex on Royal Palms Street.

Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man who allegedly attacked people with a machete behind a grocery store in the Grimes County community of Shiro.

One person is dead after a shooting along the SH 288 South Freeway, Houston police say.

Houston police are searching for a wanted suspect charged with the murder of a 34-year-old man last week. Trezahn Jamal Grace, 28, is charged in the death of Darius Merrett.

On the last night of their lives, Jagdish Patel, his wife and their two young children tried to slip into the U.S. across a near-empty stretch of the Canadian border.

Nearly three years after a couple from India and their two young children froze to death while trying to cross the border from Canada into the U.S., two men on Monday will face trial on human smuggling charges, accused of being part of a criminal network that stretched around the world.

A Harris County Constable K9 captured a suspect who tried to make a getaway on foot after a police chase in a stolen car.

Houston police are investigating after a woman was found shot to death in the street on Sunday night.