Harris County

HOUSTON, Texas — A Harris County grand jury handed down felony indictments on Monday against three aides to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, which stem from a Texas Ranger’s investigation into alleged improprieties about an $11 million contract for a COVID-19 vaccine advertising project. The awardee was a one-woman firm with a 19-month operational history specializing in Democrat candidate campaign work based in a residential apartment unit.

A Texas deputy was airlifted to a hospital early Thursday after a good Samaritan found him unresponsive while suffering from a medical emergency in Hockley, northwest of Houston.

Election officials in Texas’ largest county failed to count approximately 10,000 ballots by election day. The Democrat-appointed election administrator for Harris County reported 6,000 of the ballots were cast in the Democratic Party primary and 4,000 in the Republican Party Primary.

HOUSTON, Texas — Voting results in the Democrat and Republican primary elections in Harris County are in flux after officials could not tabulate Election Day votes due to equipment malfunctions. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said the situation “is proving to be a disaster.”

Angel Mom Rhonda Exum, whose 19-year-old daughter Adrienne Sophia Exum was killed by an illegal alien who is now being shielded from deportation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says she regrets voting for President Joe Biden. 

A vigilant Texas man ran down a suspect who was fleeing authorities on foot after leading them on a pursuit in an allegedly stolen truck.

A driver shot and killed a Houston-area deputy during a traffic stop Sunday morning then got back into this car and drove off. 

George Floyd’s niece, Arianna, was shot about 3 a.m. while in bed Saturday night inside an apartment in Houston, Texas. 

A father was shot dead Friday night while carrying a birthday cake into a Humble, Texas, Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant for his daughter. 

A report by Houston’s FOX26 claims over 150 people have been killed by suspects whom Democrat judges have released on bond in Harris County, Texas.

A fire broke out overnight at the Baytown, Texas, ExxonMobil plant, which left four people injured, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO).

A quick-thinking 11-year-old Texas boy called 9-1-1 and notified neighbors the moment he witnessed a house fire in the middle of the night on September 24 in the Cy-Fair area in Northwest Harris County, Texas.

A Harris County, Texas, father shot and critically wounded a suspect who was allegedly peeping into a 10-year-old girl’s window and “touching himself.”

Two illegal alien MS-13 Gang members have been convicted and each sentenced to 40 years in prison for murdering a 15-year-old girl in Harris County, Texas in a satanic ritual. 

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, sought the release of more than 1,500 inmates this year, including illegal aliens and those charged with violent crimes. 

President Joe Biden nominated Harris County, Texas Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a critic of interior immigration enforcement, to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director. 

Texas had a massive turnout on its first day of early voting on Tuesday, with more than one million votes cast throughout the state.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Harris County, the most populous county in the state, cannot mail ballot applications to all of its 2.4 million registered voters.

A lawsuit filed in Houston on Monday by the Public Interest Legal Foundation seeks to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.

Harris County law enforcement officials backed down as the owner of the Federal American Grill decided to re-open his restaurant on the city’s west side despite orders directing restaurants to be closed except for curbside orders. Multiple law enforcement agencies in Houston said they were not responsible for enforcing the ordinance.

HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas state district court judge ordered Harris County to stop the release of inmates as ordered by County Judge Lina Hidalgo (D). Hidalgo ordered the release of hundreds of non-violent offenders from the jail earlier this week.

HOUSTON, Texas — Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (D) issued a “Stay Home, Work Safe” order for the nation’s third-most populous county in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The order impacts the nation’s 3rd most populated city, Houston, and second largest seaport.

Two people were killed and seven others wounded in a drive-by shooting that occurred during the filming of a music video near Houston, Texas.

A husband in Harris County, Texas, opened fire and hit two suspects after they allegedly tried to rob his wife at a Randall’s grocery store parking lot in broad daylight.

A Texas middle school teacher is accused of sending sexually explicit texts that allegedly led to a summertime sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female student.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that his office will prosecute a Mexican national who, allegedly, voted in three elections to include the 2016 presidential.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit Thursday against Harris County, Texas, for allegedly failing to disclose noncitizen registered voter records as required under federal law.

Democrats marched to the polls in record numbers in Harris County and the effort to shift the state’s largest voting jurisdiction from purple to blue continues. Democrats in Harris County turned out 167,396 voters in the 2018 primary. This compares to 53,788 in 2014–an increase of 211 percent.

Texas is working to improve its revolving door psychiatric care system thanks to decades-long efforts of those with intimate knowledge of the problems.

Harris County, Texas, stands accused of “hiding public information” on noncitizen voters, says a national election integrity law firm.

Houston Magazine OutSmart reports that at least 35 LGBTQ Texans are running for office in the 2018 primary and general elections–including governor and lieutenant governor contests. Five candidates identify as transgender. More than one-third are from Harris County. The publication added five to the list by Wednesday afternoon.

A Texas man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday for plotting to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Governor Greg Abbott said Wednesday that Texas will accept Mexico’s offer for assistance in the aftermath of Harvey.

A Houston area Chick-fil-A manager did not hesitate to offer assistance when two regular customers called in their food orders with an emergency water rescue on the side.

HOUSTON, Texas — The death toll from Hurricane Harvey and the resulting floods may have climbed to 14 as a family reports six of their members may have drowned. The clan claims two great-grandparents, in their 80s, along with four children were swept away by flood waters on Houston’s northeast side and are feared dead. Texas officials report eight other people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

A year after some Louisiana residents, dubbed the Cajun Navy, used their boats and smartphones to help their own neighbors in historic floods, the volunteer fleet was granted clearance to assist in Harvey rescue efforts in Houston, Texas.

HOUSTON, Texas — A video showing the Texas National Guard rolling into hurricane-ravished Houston received more than a million views.

“Houston is experiencing an unprecedented rain event,” Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told Breitbart Texas in a Sunday morning interview. The judge, who heads up Harris County’s emergency management response, urged people to stay in their homes.

A former Texas prosecutor is just one of the more than 1,000 individuals arrested in a massive sex sting operation by law enforcement officials in 17 states.

Six pregnant Texas woman tested positive for Zika health officials announced Thursday. The patients hailed from Harris County where, locally, this marked the first cases of the mosquito-borne virus reported this year.