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Houston police Chief Art Acevedo spoke publicly Wednesday for the first time since a Harris County grand jury handed up indictments of six more Houston police officers in connection with the deadly Harding Street raid.

HOUSTON – Houston police said someone left a little boy in the road in north Houston after stealing the vehicle he was in. Surveillance video from New Haven Drive shows a vehicle suddenly stops around 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Someone gets out and runs around the vehicle. As the camera turns, the driver appears to leave something in the road and then take off. A delivery driver and a neighbor later discovered it was a five-month-old boy. “I could not imagine somebody would do that and I ...

Most city surveillance cameras in Chinatown are broken and won’t be fixed Nearly 80% of security cameras meant to reduce crime throughout Chinatown arent working By Lynn Kawano | January 20, 2021 at 5:43 PM HST - Updated January 21 at 2:42 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Cameras placed around the Chinatown area to help prevent and solve crime haven’t been usable for years, Hawaii News Now has learned. There are 26 devices but 20 of them are inoperable, according to the Hono...

iframe src "https://embed.hpm.io/389633/389644" style "height: 115px; width: 100%;" /iframe X A new podcast called Chicano Squad tells the true story of an all-Latino homicide squad in Houston that began in the late 1970s that — with little training — was asked to solve some of the citys most violent crimes. Host Cristela Alonzo, an actor and comedian who grew up in Texas, spoke to Houston Matters host Craig Cohen about the project and the stories it tells. The interview below has b...

Newly released photographs show now-President Joe Biden quietly visited an injured Houston police officer in the hospital a little more than a year ago.

Marking the anniversary of the Hibiscus Drive Shooting A Pass in Review ceremony held for officers Tiffany Enriquez and Kaulike Kalama in 2020. Credit Catherine Cruz / HPR   One year ago, two Waikiki police officers were killed in a shooting on Hibiscus Drive. The gunman also attacked his landlady and a neighbor before setting a fire that destroyed and damaged seven homes. We look at the efforts around healing in the Hibiscus Drive neighborhood, and talk to Senator Karl Rhoads, Head of the Jud...

A former Houston police officer tried to delete photos that showed him inside the U.S. Capitol during the riot that happened nearly two weeks ago, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Sen. Ted Cruz brought back his Come and Take It mask for Bidens inauguration FacebookTwitterEmail Sen. Ted Cruz (C) (R-TX), wearing a face mask that reads "Come and Take It", arrives to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During todays inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States.Drew Angerer/Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz did wear a mask during the inauguration of Presiden...

Tam Pham, an 18-year veteran of the Houston Police Department, was arrested Wednesday morning after turning himself in to the FBI in Houston in connection with violence at the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago, authorities told KPRC 2.

HPD: Traffic stop ends with suspects facing auto theft, drug charges HPD: Traffic stop ends with suspects facing auto theft, drug charges By Keaton Eberly | January 17, 2021 at 10:06 PM CST - Updated January 17 at 11:17 PM HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE) - Police say a traffic stop on Sunday led to two people receiving multiple charges. According to the Henderson Police Department, officers located a car matching the description of a vehicle that was previously reported stolen in Vanderburgh County,...