A Houston man was arrested Monday on charges he tried to blow up a Confederate statue in a city park, after a park ranger caught him Saturday night hiding in bushes near the monument with nitroglycerine.
Read moreHouston Mayor Sylvester Turner says he will take his time to decide what to do with two Confederate statues in city parks, as the issue of Confederate monuments boils over across the South.
Read moreThree Houston city employees asked a federal judge to block the city from cutting off benefits to their same-sex partners, an attempt to preempt a state court challenge of the city’s right to provide the benefits.
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There are few casinos in Texas but games of chance abound, because a loophole in state law — cut out for huggable stuffed animals — blurs the lines between illegal gambling and innocent amusement.
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The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the spouses of gay and lesbian public employees are not necessarily entitled to the same government-funded benefits that are provided to opposite-sex couples.
Read moreAn Algerian woman claims in a sexual-harassment lawsuit that Qatar’s consul general in Houston made her keep a picture of him at all times in her wallet and fired her when she refused to give in to his advances.
Read moreThe Houston Bar Association alleges in a trademark infringement and defamation lawsuit that scammers are preying on the elderly with a website for a fictitious Houston estate-planning law firm that falsely claims it’s a member of the association.
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A male nurse at a Houston hospital sexually molested an incapacitated patient, telling her it was “therapeutic,” then raped her by force, the woman claims in court.
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A Houston prosecutor “went to unbelievable lengths to manipulate evidence,” including threatening and jailing witnesses and concealing exculpatory evidence, to send an innocent, mentally disabled man to prison for 12 years — 10 of them on death row — the exonerated man claims in court.
Read moreClaiming that complying with a federal judge’s order to release poor, “potentially dangerous” people charged with misdemeanors from its jail in Houston will cause irreparable harm, Harris County asked the U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday to stay the order.
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A Houston pension-reform plan designed to eliminate $8.2 billion in debt is now in limbo as the local firefighters’ retirement fund sued city officials, seeking an injunction to block the plan that was approved by state lawmakers.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s relentless pursuit for a new judge in his criminal securities fraud case may have succeeded Tuesday, when an appeals court found the trial judge lost jurisdiction when he moved the case from suburban Dallas to Houston.
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The Texas Legislature approved a bill Wednesday to overhaul Houston’s pension funds, putting the city on track to pay off $8.2 billion in pension debt.
Read moreA staffing company claims in a federal racketeering lawsuit that a Houston offshore oil services firm saved more than $850,000 in labor costs by hiring foreigners, flouting federal law that mandates the hiring of American workers for jobs in U.S. waters.
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Houston’s mayor is depending on the Texas Legislature to pass bills needed to rein in the city’s pension debt, but amendments to appease Houston firefighters have cast doubt on the mayor’s assumption lawmakers will approve his pension-reform plan.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton made his fourth request Monday evening to remove the judge overseeing his criminal securities fraud case, this time with a Dallas appeals court that refused to dismiss the case against him last year.
Read moreA new Houston law that bans camping in public and forces campers to discard all their possessions that don’t fit in a small box unconstitutionally targets the homeless, three homeless people clam in a federal class action.
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Houstonians who fear heavy rainstorms like the ones that flooded their homes last year found no relief in court this week when a federal judge ruled she has no jurisdiction over the city’s flood-control projects.
Read moreHarris County, Texas officials refused Tuesday to buckle to public pressure to settle a lawsuit in which a federal judge ordered the county to release poor misdemeanor defendants from jail within 24 hours, and instead filed an appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
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