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There will be dramatic overtime cuts at the Houston Police Department and the cuts mean a suspension of funding for the neighborhood Crime Reduction Initiative patrols.

The sinkhole now filled with a mixture of oil, waste and water running from the marshlands above and percolating from the ground below. And experts said Monday that the sinkhole is the work of man, not nature.

Rain chances begin their climb upward Tuesday.

The woman driving the second car is in serious, but stable, condition at Ben Taub Hospital.

Houston Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell said he was taken by surprise when First Daughter Jenna Bush asked him to preside over her wedding. Slideshow: Jenna says 'I do'

The Grace Church of Humble serves as caretaker to the cemetery where a group of teens allegedly dug up the corpse of an 11-year-old boy and used the skull to smoke pot.

Thomas Jones, 51, was sitting on the curb in front of a stationary vehicle on Heights Blvd. when a suspected drunk driver crashed into the parked car.

Independent shrimpers are feeling the pinch of cheap imports and rising fuel costs.

Mental health workers sent to help care for the women and children removed from a polygamist sect’s West Texas ranch are criticizing Child Protective Services, saying the state’s decision to seek custody of the children was unnecessary and traumatizing.

She and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush’s ranch in Crawford. Bride's bio

Neighbors bringing a loose bull back to a northeast Houston home discovered a gruesome scene that revealed a man and his family shot dead. Police on scene said it is possible the deaths are the result of a murder/suicide.

People from as far as Virginia and Vermont have stopped by to see the hole. But one city leader says that all that attention is a double-edged sword.

Pedro Luis Morfin is wanted in connection to the shooting death of a 33-year-old Baytown man two weeks ago.

Madison High's prom took place Saturday, but Marche Taylor only got as far as the lobby because when she tried to enter the ballroom an official stopped her.

Several teams of Federal agents from here and across the country are hitting the streets of Houston searching for fugitive illegal immigrants.

Officials took down the yellow tape for a short while around the massive sinkhole that formed in Liberty County on Wednesday.

The Texas State Auditor found that a lot of dams are not being inspected. And when inspectors found a problem, half the time they never followed up.

Two of the three Kingwood teens accused of digging up a corpse, decapitating its head and using the skull as a marijuana pipe were in court Friday morning.