Two missing Texas teens were “very happy to be rescued” Monday night after they ran away from home and “fell in with some bad people.” McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara told KWTX that James Robert Van Houten, 30, has been charged with harboring a minor and is likely to face other charges. “We have reason …
A gunman killed two people and wounded four others — including three police officers — before he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in the Fort Worth suburb of Haltom City Saturday night. Police said they received a call about shots fired shortly before 7 p.m. and a second call minutes later, according to …
The embattled police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has resigned from the Uvalde City Council just a week after the council declined to grant him a leave of absence. Pete Arredondo, under withering fire for the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on …
A Texas woman reported missing last week in Austin has been found dead. Austin police said badly decomposed remains were found on Tuesday, and the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the body as that of Yolanda Jaimes on Friday. Cause and manner of death are pending. Police responded to a report that Jaimes was …
Residents of a Houston neighborhood leapt into action Tuesday to rescue an 11-year-old boy after a man allegedly shoved him into his car and tried to sexually assault him. Two neighbors heard the boy screaming and grabbed Miguel Angel Cordero Ramirez, 30, holding him down until police could arrive. Ramirez has been charged with aggravated …
A Texas mother was arrested last week, four months after her 2-year-old daughter was killed by what she claimed was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On February 18, Juelz Gonzalez was fatally shot in the head at her San Antonio home. Her mother, Jessica Cantu, 35, was arrested on Friday, after cops determined the toddler was …
A Texas mom has been arrested after she crashed her car and wandered into traffic lanes on Interstate 20, apparently “under the influence of alcohol and possibly narcotics.” Harrison County deputies said they found one of Fantasia Martinez’s infant children in her abandoned car and a second — the first infant’s twin — alone at …
Texas police shot and killed a 42-year-old man Monday who opened fire inside a facility where a summer camp for 150 4- to 14-year-olds was starting its second week. Investigators said that Brandon Keith Ned walked into the mai lobby of the Duncanville Fieldhouse Monday morning and spoke with staff members before firing a shot. …
A Texas woman who vanished in May was reportedly found dead in a car trunk on Sunday. Montgomery County police said that two men riding four-wheelers discovered two bodies in a vehicle after inspecting it as it had been in the same spot for the past couple of weeks. After they found a long gun …
A Texas man has been arrested after a woman escaped from a home in Bexar County and told police he had kidnapped her and beaten her for several days. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the 45-year-old woman fled the home early Saturday and ran to a neighbor’s home, where she called for help, KSAT …
The incident commander in charge of the police response to the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Texas last week wasn’t carrying a police radio, according to a Texas state senator. Sen. Roland Gutierrez told the Associated Press that he got the information from an official with the Texas Department of Public Safety, …
Texas police shot and killed an escaped inmate on Thursday, too late for the family of five — including four children — the fugitive killed just hours earlier. Gonzalo Lopez, 46, allegedly got free of his restraints on May 12, stabbed a prison bus driver, and commandeered the bus before taking off through a field, …
