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Hundreds of mourners, including Irish musicians and entertainers, filled a Dublin cathedral on Tuesday for the funeral of Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard , who died in a motorcycle crash last week, aged 56. Actors Steve Coogan and Chris O’Dowd and musicians i...
Eric Johnson, 39, was arrested by La Porte police for the 2012 murder of 16-month-old Shawn McCloskey.
As Houston students prepare to head back to class, local law enforcement is making campus security a top priority. The Houston ISD Police Department, Houston Police Department and several local agency partners are set to announce Project Safe Start Tuesday morning — a multi-agenc...
President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada this week to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy, border security and crime , seeking to shore up support for Republicans in November elections that will determine whether his party keeps contr...
Firefighters west of Athens raced to exploit a break in high winds on Tuesday, working to strengthen containment lines as forecasters warned that stronger gusts and rising temperatures would return in the coming days. Several fires that burned through mountain communities and coa...
A Honduran man who was deported after a Houston traffic stop has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the City of Houston and unidentified Houston police officers, alleging they unlawfully detained him so federal immigration agents could take him into custody. According ...
A man from Spokane, Washington, was arrested Monday and charged with setting one of the devastating wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures in and around the state’s second-largest city. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said Aaron F. Farinacci, 37,...
A man from El Salvador has died at a New Jersey immigration jail that has been the target of months of protests over living conditions for people detained there, federal officials said Monday. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested J...
Police say the four suspects fled on foot after the shooting and are believed to be in their late teens or early 20s. According to HPD, one of the suspects carried a handgun during the shooting....
Police officers are on the scene of a shooting on Tierwester Street at the intersection of Corder Street. According to Houston Police, it happened just before 7:50 p.m. Monday night. One person was injured and transported to a hospital. We’re told at least one person has been det...
Houston police are speaking out for the first time about a major car theft bust that allegedly stretched far beyond the city - and pulled cars in from as far away as Nebraska and Minnesota....
Three people were killed and seven others injured, some critically, in the shooting, police said. An In-N-Out employee was among those killed, the company confirmed....
The family of fallen Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy Erika Serrato has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a commercial driver and several companies, alleging negligence led to the 24-year-old deputy’s death while she was working a crash scene on Interstate 45. According to...
The parents of 24-year-old Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy Erika Serrato have filed a wrongful death lawsuit following a deadly crash that took Erika's life at the end of June....
On Monday, police were still trying to determine why the shooter carried out the attack, which happened early in the afternoon in a busy shopping plaza....
A 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the 2012 homicide of a 16-month-old boy after a renewed investigation by the La Porte Police Department and the Texas Attorney General’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit uncovered new evidence that investigators say establi...
A man has been arrested in connection with a murder of a toddler in 2012, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton's Office.
According to officials, Ali Homoud Alnaimi allegedly came to the United States with the materials before embarking on a cruise to Mexico from Galveston....
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of a La Porte man accused of killing a 16-month-old child more than a decade ago after investigators uncovered new developments while reviewing the long-unsolved case. According to Paxton’s office, Eric Johnson was arrested by the ...
In a video released by DJ Construction & Dirt Work, a silver truck is seen blowing through a fence and striking a traffic sign before going directly through the front of the building, leaving a trail of dirt and debris in its wake....
A coalition of hemp businesses and a retired police officer filed a federal lawsuit to block Texas health officials from classifying Delta-8 THC as a Schedule I controlled substance....
The Houston Police Department said the load was reported just after 7 a.m on Monday. It is unclear what the load contains.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, was hospitalized Sunday morning after the vehicle she was riding in was struck in a hit-and-run crash that also injured her driver, according to the Toledo Police Department....
A 2-year-old girl who was the center of an Amber Alert in San Antonio has been found dead Monday, according to the San Antonio Police Department . Aryana Trevino Martinez was last seen Sunday around 7 p.m. in the 4000 block of Allegheny Drive in San Antonio, Texas. The girl was l...
TRAFFIC ALERT: Multiple lanes of the southwest freeway northbound near S. Gessner have been impacted after a truck hauler lost its load. The spill happened just before 8 a.m. Monday, during the morning rush hour. Motorists should allow for extra time or find alternate routes of t...
Light winds and lower temperatures were in the forecast Monday to help firefighters with wildfires in eastern Washington state that forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures. The fires in and ar...
Wildfires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures, authorities said....
A three-vehicle crash sent three people to the hospital late Sunday night in northwest Houston. The collision happened at approximately 10:39 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of State Highway 249 and Spring Cypress Road, near a Mobil gas station. Two SUVs and a sedan were involved...
Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis as record low water levels on the Danube River have forced power plants to the brink of shutting down. Persistent drought and successive extreme heat waves h...
Russian planes dropped eight powerful glide bombs in a span of 90 minutes on residential districts of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and wounding dozens of others, regional chief Ivan Fedorov said Monday. Russia has used glide bombs to smash Ukrai...
Indonesian rescuers were searching for possible missing passengers Monday after rescuing 229 people from a ferry that caught fire the previous day in waters off the main island of Java, leaving at least five people dead. The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was traveling from Indonesia’s ...
Five water-dropping planes and another five helicopters took off at first light Monday to help hundreds of firefighters battling a major wildfire west of Athens, Greece, a day after a midair collision between two firefighting helicopters killed two crew members. The collision lai...
After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with more testimony about the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023. Monday's witnesses are expected to include p...
A mother speaking to ABC13 reported that she had previously informed HCSO about threats to her family. On Sunday, bullets were fired at her home, leaving her worried about what might happen next....
A family is still searching for answers nearly six months after Michael Shannon was killed in a hit-and-run crash in northwest Harris County. Sunday would've been Michael's 20th birthday....
Officials say the motorcyclist struck a vehicle as the vehicle was making a turn.
One agency says a person exited safely. Another says a person was killed in the crash.
19-year-old Jaylon Fox was found fatally shot on Easter Sunday 2025. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for answers.
Photos shared by officials at the scene showed a vehicle with its wheels up in the retention pond off the Grand Parkway. Officials said the driver was able to exit the vehicle safely....
Authorities say about 5,000 homes have been evacuated and about 600 homes, businesses and other buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that remained uncontained Sunday in eastern Washington state....
According to officials, Leonard Baker had been involved in thefts in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana. He was arrested after a slow speed chase....
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after a car accident in Toledo on Sunday morning, her office said Sunday. Kaptur, 80, was a passenger in a vehicle headed to a church service “when the car she was traveling in was struck,” the statement fr...
Police say the exes were arguing Saturday night, and the man allegedly ended up shooting his ex's new boyfriend.
A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyb...
A driver going over 100 mph on Westpark Drive is dead after crashing into a pole on Sunday morning, police said.
Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least five people across Russia, also hitting industrial sites and a further warehouse belonging to Russia’s e-commerce giant Wildberries , local officials said. Wildberries, Russia's largest online marketplace, is sometimes described as the coun...
Houston police are investigating after a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds outside a northwest Houston apartment complex early Sunday morning....
Houston police were called to an apartment complex in northwest Houston early Sunday after a report of gunfire. When officers arrived at Oakwood Gardens in the 5600 block of Antoine Drive around 1:20 a.m., they found a man dead outside. Investigators said the victim appeared to b...
Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to an apartment complex in northwest Houston Saturday night after neighbors reported hearing a gunshot. According to HCSO Sgt. Greg Pinkins, deputies with Precinct 4 arrived at Hacienda Bonita Apartments in the 14400 block of El...
An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java on Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said. The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was trav...
Europe’s wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain’s major fires fin...
A shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon left multiple people dead and others injured, police said. The shooter was among the dead, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said in a news conference. Police were still trying to determine th...
Police are responding to an active shooter incident near an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Texas authorities canceled a statewide AMBER Alert after two girls who were reported abducted in San Antonio were found.
A plane carrying European tourists to view the famed Nazca Lines crashed into a field Saturday outside the Peruvian city of Nazca, killing 13 people, local authorities said. Nazca's municipal government said the plane departed from the nearby city of Ica and was operated by Peruv...
Court documents said three people inside a stolen car fled from the vehicle when it crashed during a chase on Highway 6. According to investigators, one of those fleeing suspects was fatally struck by a pursuing officer....
A dangerous heat wave will bring record-breaking temperatures to parts of the Western U.S. this weekend, prompting warnings for people to stay inside and heightening wildfire risks in areas that already are dry or burning. A ridge of high pressure is holding heat close to the gro...
One man was shot in the side of the stomach, and the other was shot in the arm, HPD said in a late-night briefing. The search to find everyone involved is ongoing, police said....
Houston police said two men were injured after four people inside a vehicle drove up to them and started shooting.
Houston police are investigating a late-night shooting that left two men injured in the 6100 block of W. Tidwell Road. According to the Houston Police Department , officers were called to the scene around 10:20 p.m. Friday after reports of gunfire. Investigators said two men were...
