Former Apple employee ordered to serve jail time, pay restitution for fleecing the company

Dhirendra Prasad’s sentencing for two charges — conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. — stemmed from an alleged plot that lost Apple over $17 million.

Houston 15-year-old's death ruled 'undetermined' after initially being labeled a suicide

The death of 15-year-old Zamian Aleman, who was found stabbed to death in his mother's apartment in Houston in January 2022, was initially ruled a suicide. However, audio of a 911 call made by Zamian before his death has led authorities to re-open the case and change the ruling to "undetermined."

Bissonnet Street Shooting: Houston police searching for murder suspect

Houston Police Department is seeking public assistance in locating Rudy Ventura, 26, who is charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for his alleged involvement in a deadly shooting incident that occurred in October 2021.

Houston police release surveillance video of suspect following deadly shooting near Texas Southern University

The Houston Police Department has released surveillance video of a heavy set Black male in his early 20s, wanted in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred just blocks away from Texas Southern University.

Lost iPhone survives 33 days under water off Hawaiian coast

A Minnesota man gave up on retrieving his iPhone after dropping it while on vacation, but the phone had a lot more endurance than he thought.

ESPN hit with layoffs as parent company Disney cuts costs

Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in February that the company would reduce 7,000 jobs either through not filling positions or layoffs.

4 Katy ISD campuses placed on 'Secure the Building' mode, officials say

“A lockdown is when there is an imminent threat inside the building," Katy ISD officials explained. “In a ‘secure the building’ mode, all doors are locked at the campus and no one can come in or out until the mode is lifted."

Twitter verification blue checkmarks reportedly reappearing for some users

Twitter removed the blue marks last week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee. But the marks mysteriously returned for many highly followed accounts over the weekend.

Montgomery County officials investigating suicide call that was actually murder

Authorities in Montgomery County were called to a scene for a suicide, and found Rufino Gutierrez, 34, dead but said the signs suggest ""it was not a suicide but a homicide."

NASA preview: Astronaut will conduct a spacewalk on Friday, April 28

Two crew members, including a NASA astronaut, living aboard the International Space Station will conduct a spacewalk Friday, April 28, to continue the installation of hardware to support future power system upgrades.

Twitter starts removing blue check marks from users who don’t pay

Twitter will require users to pay a monthly fee to keep the blue check mark. The social media giant had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue check system — many of them journalists, athletes, and public figures.