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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston woman faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to scamming an HOA company, according to U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Maria Denise Southall-Shaw, 63, a former manager of Shadow Creek Ranch in Pearland, is accused of defrauding FirstService Residential, which handled the community’s homeowner associations. From November 2013 to November 2017, the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities have identified the man accused of shooting at Houston police officers on Thursday, grazing one of them, in southwest Houston. Forty-one-year-old Edwin Lopez is charged with aggravated assault against a public servant. At about 1:30 p.m., HPD responded to reports of someone firing their gun at an apartment complex along Forum Park Drive. When officers arrived …

Authorities on Tuesday arrested a man accused of fatally shooting five people, including a 9-year-old boy, ending a days-long manhunt. Francisco Oropesa, 38, who fled the scene of a mass shooting Friday evening near Cleveland, Texas, was taken into custody Tuesday evening in Montgomery County, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post. Around 5:15 p.m., a tipster gave authorities information …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — About 11 people, including a METRO bus operator, were taken to the hospital when two buses crashed near Memorial City Mall and Memorial Hermann Hospital, officials said. The crash happened Tuesday at about 4:30 p.m. in the 700 block of Gessner Road. The Houston Fire Department told Eyewitness News that 13 people in total were injured with …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A 9-month-old baby has died after an apparent drowning in northwest Harris County, officials said. According to HCSO, the incident happened at an apartment complex at 990 Cypress Station Drive at about 1. p.m. on Sunday. Investigators said the child was taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after. Investigators have not spoken about …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 17-year-old is in stable condition after being shot in an apparent drive-by shooting in SW Houston Sunday evening, according to HPD. It happened in the 9900 block of Club Creek Drive near Woodfair. arrived at the scene and saw multiple police cruisers and officers directing traffic as bullet casings were being picked up from the ground. …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — SkyEye was over the scene of a large fire that engulfed a former church on West Montgomery Road in northwest Harris County on Wednesday morning, but has learned that wasn’t the only fire crews had to tackle on that same block at the same time. The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said that it all …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A critical piece of equipment worth about $2,000 was stolen from a Houston fire truck, and now the fire department is asking for help in finding it. The Houston Fire Department said a chainsaw was stolen off a truck on March 9. The equipment is often used during extractions or entanglement situations such as crashes or other …

A Fort Worth police officer shot and wounded a man Saturday morning who appeared ready to draw a weapon on them, police said. A little after 7 a.m., a person in a field was yelling for help and for someone to call 911 in the 13000 block of Park Vista Boulevard, near Keller Haslet Road, according to a police call …

A woman who has been accused of a stabbing in Nevada last year has been banned from the University of Texas at Dallas campus, officials said Wednesday. Nika Nikoubin, 22, was arrested in March and accused of stabbing a man at a casino hotel near Las Vegas, The Associated Press reported. She told investigators that she stabbed the man, whom she …