HOUSTON, Texas — A legal battle continues in Texas's Harris County to determine whether or not defendants will be released from the Harris County Jail due to concerns of a COVID-19 outbreak.

HOUSTON, Texas — A naked man allegedly attempted to drown an elderly woman at a southwest Houston park, Harris County Precinct 5 Constable Ted Heap announced today.

HOUSTON, Texas — Three males were shot in an apparent robbery in southeast Houston, according to police.

PEARLAND, Texas — A Texas man faces up to 821 years in federal prison for defrauding Cisco Systems, Amazon.com, and others of more than $3 million in a nationwide warranty fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

HOUSTON, Texas — Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says three children, approximate ages of 4, 7, and 11, lead deputies to their mother's body after their father turned himself into police and indicated his wife may be deceased at their northeast Houston-area home on Tuesday.

MATAGORDA COUNTY, Texas — This morning, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) confirmed the first death of a Texas resident who tested positive for the coronavirus, of COVID-19.

PASADENA, Texas — A reward up to $5,000 is being offered for information on the whereabouts of a fugitive wanted on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child, the Crime Stoppers of Houston announced today.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas serial killer who targeted homeless and transgender women has been sentenced to death for his role in four strangulation deaths.

KATY, Texas — A Houston-area man has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for physically forcing women into sex trafficking, including one women who was kidnapped with her infant child, federal prosecutors announced on Friday.

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas — Police investigating an apparent murder-suicide say a man apparently killed his wife, two sons, and two dogs, before turning the gun on himself.

KATY, Texas (U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas) — A 49-year-old former charter school teacher has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions for coercion and enticement of a child and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston man was found guilty by a federal jury of threatening and beating two minors into sex trafficking.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — A Port Arthur man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay restitution to Blue Bell after posting a video of himself licking a carton of ice cream and returning it to a freezer inside a southeast Texas Walmart.

EL CAMPO, Texas — A convicted sex offender has been added to Texas' 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list and a $3,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.

FAYETTEVILLE, Texas — A search is underway for three missing boaters after a boat capsized Saturday night in south-central Texas.

HOUSTON, Texas — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking the public's assistance identifying a man who robbed a Houston-area bank on Thursday.

HOUSTON, Texas (Texas Department of Public Safety) – The reward for Leonard Dee Taylor — a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender and this month’s featured fugitive — has been increased to $4,000 for information leading to his capture, if the tip comes in during the month of February.

HOUSTON, Texas — UPDATE [Mar. 5] — Working off of multiple tips, members of the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force captured 20-year-old Willie James Brumfield — a Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive sought for child trafficking, compelling prostitution, aggravated robber…

LEAGUE CITY, Texas — A Texas man allegedly sexually assaulted a child after luring her on the LIKEE app on the pretense she would become a model, police say.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — A The Woodlands resident claimed a $1 million Texas Lottery scratch ticket prize in the game Instant Millionaire.

HOUSTON, Texas — A reward up to $5,000 is being offered for information on a man and woman who allegedly used stolen credit cards to go on a nearly $13,000 shopping spree in the Houston area last month.

POINT BLANK, Texas — A small rural community, which recorded less than 700 residents during the 2010 Census, has gained a millionaire after a resident claimed a $3 million Texas Lottery scratch ticket.

HOUSTON, Texas — Two men are being sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with a Sunday bank robbery in the Houston area.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston-area couple has been charged with child abandonment after police say they left an infant in their running vehicle while they played an 8-liner machine in a convenience store in the north Houston area overnight.

HOUSTON, Texas — 26-year-old Stephen Edward Torres has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for raping and filming children under the age of five, according to federal prosecutors.

HOUSTON, Texas — This morning, a Houston-area man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography, federal prosecutors announced.

HOUSTON, Texas —  The reward for Carlos Alberto Gonzalez-Barahona, 29, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive and this month’s featured fugitive, has been increased to $6,000 for information leading to his capture if the tip comes in during the month of January 2020.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston resident has claimed a top prizewinning ticket, from the Texas Lottery's scratch ticket game Stacks of Cash, worth $1 million, the Texas Lottery announced.

LA PORTE, Texas — A Texas man missing at the Grand Canyon in Arizona has been found alive, according to the National Parks Service.

HOUSTON, Texas — A woman was shot and killed by suspected celebratory gunfire on New Years in the Houston area, according to police.

HOUSTON, Texas — A 12-year-old Texas boy is being credited with saving his grandparents life in a brutal stabbing attack by his brother earlier this week, preventing what police say would have been a double murder.

KATY, Texas — A $10,000 reward is being offered for information on an arsonist who targeted a Fort Bend County, Texas, sheriff's deputy's home twice in one week.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Two people were killed and at least seven others were injured in a shooting "ambush" while filming a rap video in the Houston area.

PEARLAND, Texas — A 23-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison after admitting he recruited a high school girl and trafficked her for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.

CHANNELVIEW, Texas — A Houston-area homeowner shot and killed three suspected home burglary suspects on Monday morning, at least one of which was armed and struck the homeowner in an exchange of gunfire.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Six southeast Texas men were arrested during an undercover prostitution sting in Beaumont, Texas, on Thursday, according to the Beaumont Police Department.

COLDSPRING, Texas — A southeast Texas deputy was killed after crashing into another deputy's patrol vehicle while both were responding to a burglary in progress call on Saturday night.

HOUSTON, Texas — 11 felons handed federal prosecutors the evidence they needed to send them back to prison on firearms charges.

HOUSTON, Texas (by Aliyya Swaby , the Texas Tribune) — Handing a win to Texas education officials, an Austin-based federal judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Houston Independent School District in an effort to stop the state from seizing control of its troubled school board.

HOUSTON, Texas — Precinct 5 Harris County Constable's Office deputies rescued a man from a burning vehicle, moments before it fully engulfed in flames.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitive, on the run for nearly two years, was captured last week in Kentucky.

HOUSTON, Texas (by Kiah Collier , the Texas Tribune) — Houston's natural vulnerability to flooding — worsened by development that officials left unchecked for decades — was exposed like never before in 2017, when Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas and turned into a tropical storm that linge…

NASSAU BAY, Texas — UPDATE [Dec.12] — An anonymous tip to the Houston Crime Stoppers led police to the arrest of 21-year-old Tavores Henderson — the man wanted in connection with the slaying of Nassua Bay Police Department Sergeant Kaila Sullivan on Tuesday night.

HOUSTON, Texas — Students from Texas will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA television and the agency’s website.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrew based out of Corpus Christi spotted a low-profile vessel (LPV), often used by cartels to smuggle narcotics, while on patrol in the Gulf of Mexico — ultimately leading to the ap…

GALVESTON, Texas (by Patrick Svitek, the Texas Tribune) —Editor's note: This article contains a reference to an offensive, racist word.