A $1.5 million check and a Telegram channel called Slips and Chips figure in the federal case against five Houston-area defendants.

Northbound lanes shut down after a woman was struck near Edgebrook Drive, a stretch already flagged as a Gulf Freeway crash hot spot.

Deputies detained a possible suspect after a woman was shot in the 3500 block of Brimwood Drive. Her condition has not been released.

Braylen Ezell's mother says she wants whoever killed her son at a Cypress house party prosecuted. Still no arrests.

Maximiano Torres traveled to meet who he thought was a child, deputies say. He now sits in jail on an $80,000 bond and an ICE detainer.

Christina Marie Lynch, 61, was on parole for DWI when troopers say she forced other drivers off Highway 69 near Lumberton.

The child, thrown from a Toyota pickup near T.C. Jester, wasn't wearing a seat belt. The driver showed signs of intoxication, authorities said.

A disturbance call at a Hidden Meadow intersection led deputies to a man found unconscious and dead inside a vehicle.

Ed Oliver III drowned in a pool at the family's Huffman home; the Bills say they will support Oliver as he grieves.

Sergio Rodriguez allegedly placed a tracking device on the woman's car after running her plate thousands of times.

A man believed to be in his 20s died in a single-vehicle crash near West Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road, closing Garth Road in both directions.

Four fire departments and hazmat crews swarmed Brenham Municipal Airport after a plane went down Saturday morning.

Eliseo Juantelope, 52, died in the 6300 block of the Westpark Tollway. No relatives have come forward to claim his body.