The suspect in a DUI crash that severely injured a La Porte woman has turned himself in. James Hutchins, 27, demolished the SUV of Kelley Schoppe on September 6. She was on her way to deliver cookies to nurses working overtime in the aftermath of Harvey. Hutchins has been charged with intoxication assault as a [...]
A mother and her two sons were shot this weekend in a domestic dispute in La Porte, Texas. Police responded to reports of gunfire in La Porte just off Spencer Highway Sunday night around 9:12 p.m. When police arrived at the scene, they found a 50-year-old woman, a 26-year-old man and a 14-year-old with gunshot [...]
A Pasadena mother has been arrested for letting her 11-year-old daughter drive her Dodge Durango. A Pasadena police officer pulled a car over for speeding and was surprised to find an 11-year-old girl driving her 10-year-old brother to her aunt's house. The young driver said her mother gave her permission to drive the vehicle. The [...]
A driver is facing charges after crashing his pickup truck into a neighbor's home. The La Porte man is reportedly a local firefighter. Andrew Stevens is being charges with unlawful carrying of a gun in addition to driving while intoxicated. According to reports it was around 11 p.m. when Stevens' truck went through a neighbors' [...]
An overnight crash on the Fred Hartman Bridge was the result of a wrong-way driver; several lanes were shut down as a result of the accident. Around 12:30 a.m. La Porte police said they received reports of a wrong-way driver on the bridge. All lanes of the bridge were shut down for nearly an hour, [...]
A driver crashed into several vehicles parked at a Pasadena household around 3:30 a.m. April 26. The impact caused a chain-reaction that pushed one of the parked cars through the garage door and into the house where it injured a 4-year-old sleeping in an adjacent room. The driver attempted to flee the scene. Awakened by [...]
Destiny Lynn Schulze, 19, Deer Park, Texas, was heading north on K-14 in Reno County, Kansas Saturday evening when the 2010 Toyota pickup she was driving drifted off the left edge of the road, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. A passenger, Hannah Alyese Hall, 19, of Harris, Texas, grabbed the steering wheel, causing the [...]
A local mother blames the lack of sidewalks for her son’s death. The local high school student died after being struck by a vehicle while on his way to school. Krenek Road, by Crosby High School, has no sidewalks and there are deep ditches on either side of it. The mother said her son was on his way to [...]
The Pasadena Police Department confirmed that a motorcyclist died after colliding with a car on Friday evening. The accident occurred Friday evening around 11:30 on Pasadena Boulevard at Lafferty. According to police, the motorcyclist was traveling southbound at a high rate of speed, and at a curve in the road a car making a turn [...]
A big rig overturned early Tuesday morning on the 610 Loop in southeast Houston near Highway 225. The accident happened around 3 a.m., but there's no information regarding any injuries or the cause of the truck accident. Hazmat teams helped clear the scene near the La Porte Freeway. The exit ramp from the East Loop to [...]