A Union Pacific contractor was shot Wednesday while doing rail work in northeast Houston; police say the attack followed a robbery and the victim is stable.

A driver identified as Cameron Burnett was arrested after a brief pursuit in Atascocita; deputies say he discarded an open container and had a loaded handgun. Bond was set at $20,200.

A Houston Chronicle analysis found several Texas agencies along I‑35 reporting contraband on up to 75% of searches while arrests remained rare.

A South Texas task force says it recovered more than 1,200 pounds of meth hidden in a lettuce shipment, officials say.

FBI Houston released surveillance images and named the "Subzero Suspect" after a southeast Houston Frost Bank robbery; Crime Stoppers offers up to $5,000 for tips.

Harris County deputies arrested a man on Schiel Road after finding meth and a device used to reprogram car keys; authorities say he was wanted in multiple counties.

A welfare check in the 4000 block of Cicada Lane left a woman dead and a man critically injured as homicide detectives processed the scene.

Two weeks after a deadly Riverside Park carjacking, James Tolen’s fiancée plans a remembrance as Houston police hunt two men captured on surveillance. Crime Stoppers 713-222-TIPS.

A Houston mother says scammers posing as an immigration lawyer and ICE official staged a fake Zoom hearing and extracted thousands; officials urge reporting to IC3.

Relatives say a man who intervened in an attack on an elderly woman in Third Ward was fatally shot; a suspect has been arrested and charged with murder.

Two students and an adult were charged after guns were found at Houston-area high schools during a 16-day span; one student and the adult were released on low bond. Investigations are ongoing.

The Southern District of Texas says it collected $148.15 million in 2025 through restitution, civil enforcement and forfeitures — money headed to victims and taxpayers.

Federal court records say a Chugiak man paid smugglers $5,000 to bring a Honduran mother and her child to the Rio Grande Valley, where agents later found the child alone.