A Harris County sheriff’s deputy opened fire at a pair of robbery suspects this afternoon, killing one and seriously wounding the other, after a high speed chase that ended in northwest Houston. The shooting happened about 3 p.m. along Calvin and Mount, officials said. Sheriff’s deputies said the two men are linked to a string
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City Council passed on an opportunity to outlaw red-light cameras during a special meeting Friday, delaying consideration of the repeal of Houston’s camera ordinance until Wednesday. Councilwoman Sue Lovell tagged the item, a parliamentary maneuver that delays a vote. Lovell previously explained that she did not have the information she needed to make an informed
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GALVESTON — A Galveston man who claimed to be a vampire after being arrested for breaking into a woman’s apartment and biting her was under the influence of the date-rape drug Rohypnol, his attorney said today. Someone put the drug in punch that Lyle Monroe Bensley drank while at a party, attorney Adam Brown said.
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Jurors today convicted Lee Carl Banks of murder for luring Spenser Vogt to his house through a chatroom and shooting him twice for his car and the $20 in his wallet. The jury deliberated more than nine hours over two days in the week-long trial and rejected prosecutors’ argument that Banks should be convicted of
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When Hurricane Ike ripped the roof off Barbara Bunn’s home in Baytown, the 65-year-old was not surprised. She had lost roofs on two other homes to Gulf hurricanes over the years. This time was different, though. Federal workers gave Bunn a blue tarp roof days after the Sept. 13, 2008, storm — but for 2½
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A father and his teenage son were robbed at gunpoint after two masked men walked into their home in the Memorial area Thursday night and took off with about $100,000 in valuables. The robbery occurred at a home valued at $2.8 million in the 100 block of Glenwood near Memorial Drive about 9 p.m., according
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A missing teenage girl has been found safe this morning asleep in a car in north Texas after she left League City with a soldier earlier this week. Andrea Love Fox, 14, was found in Wichita Falls about 8:45 a.m. Friday, according to League City officials. She was with 21-year-old James Dean Martin, who is
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Simmering heat and parched conditions continue to grip the Houston region today and through the weekend as a strong ridge of high pressure remains above the area. The highs will be in the triple digits and the heat index could reach as high as 109, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said little or
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A suspected drunk driver has been accused in a fatal traffic wreck on U.S. 290 in northwest Harris County Thursday night that left one man dead, authorities said. Stephen Ellis Jr. is charged with intoxication manslaughter in the two-vehicle crash, which occurred in the 22000 block of the Northwest Freeway near Telge about 9 p.m.,
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Nine South Texas lawmen have been charged or sent to prison in the past 16 months for using their badges to sneak drugs or guns through the U.S.-Mexico border region from Laredo to Brownsville. Two are brothers. Another recruited an officer he has known since fifth grade. And a former McAllen policeman was finally sent
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