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HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the police shooting of a Houston-area woman (all times local): Texas police have released the name of the officer who shot and killed a 44-year-old woman Monday night outside her Houston-area apartment complex. Baytown police say Juan Delacruz shot Pamela Turner, an African American woman whose family says was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Police …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A year after a high school mass shooting near Houston that remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history, Texas lawmakers are on the brink of going home without passing any new gun restrictions, or even tougher firearm storage laws that Gov. Greg Abbott backed after the tragedy. A Republican governor pushing even a small restriction …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — ABC13’s Chauncy Glover sat down with mayoral candidate Bill King for a one-on-one interview, where he revealed a few things he enjoys outside of the political realm. “I think that people probably don’t know the more human side of me because, uh, they see me as sort of an analytical person,” King says, self-proclaiming himself as …

  HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) — A family mourns the loss of 25-year-old Thearon Clark, who was fatally shot in Humble on Sunday. His parents, family and friends are still searching for answers as to what happened after the alleged gas station fight that resulted in Clark’s death. At a vigil held Thursday night, his loved ones say there are still no …

PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) — The father of the person of interest questioned in a series of attacks on women who were leaving gyms late at night says he’s heartbroken. In an exclusive and emotional interview with ABC13 Eyewitness News, the dad, whose identity is being kept anonymous, says the lime green Mustang sought in the crime indeed belongs to his …

A former METRO police officer was sentenced to a month behind bars Thursday for beating up a man who was sleeping at a light rail station. A jury on Wednesday convicted 24-year-old Jairus Warren of assault bodily injury for the September 2016 incident in which he hit the man 15 times with his duty baton. The rookie officer stepped down …

The city of Houston on Thursday swore in 66 fire cadets to the department ranks after Mayor Sylvester Turner rescinded the pink slips they received last month under his plan to implement Proposition B. A state district judge ruled the pay parity measure unconstitutional and void Wednesday, prompting Turner to announce that no city employees would receive layoffs. Prop B required the city to …

A more than eight-foot-long alligator was caught on the side of U.S. 59 near Cleveland Wednesday. But he didn’t go along peacefully. André Coetzee, the owner of state-licensed animal control company Wilderness Animal Control, told Chron.com he and his crew set out to capture the gator after receiving a call from the Texas Game Wardens After arriving at the scene at …

A father accused of beating his newborn daughter to death in January is now behind bars, Houston police say. The baby girl, Yeimy Lizcano, was barely two weeks old when police say her father – 21-year-old Adrian Lizcano – violently and fatally beat him shortly after midnight Jan. 30 inside his home in north Houston. He was arrested Thursday after …

Family members of Pamela Turner, the woman fatally shot by a Baytown police officer Monday night, said the grandmother of three was a loving woman with a mental illness, but wasn’t a monster. “My sister was a human being who had rights,” sister Tracy Frazier said on Thursday. “She did not deserve to be killed and murdered.” The family gathered …