The Pasadena Police Department believe that two men are responsible for several burglaries in multiple locations throughout Harris County. The Pasadena Police Department's Burglary and Theft Division are asking for the public's help identifying the men they say are responsible for burglarizing a building in the 2600 block of Spencer Highway on Oct. 14 around 11:45 p.m. [...]
A lawsuit has drawn national attention to Pasadena, Harris County's second-largest city. Redistricting issues, including closed-door meetings over restructuring, are under scrutiny based on allegations that the city's system of elected government discriminates against Latinos. Redistricting has raised contentious debate in Pasadena for several years. In 2013, the city voted to change how it elects city [...]
The Pasadena Refinery System plant released thousands of pounds of toxins the morning of November 3, during a seven-hour power outage. The toxic release marks the latest event at the refinery, the same plant where a March explosion injured one worker. Officials worry more about this refinery than others in the area, as it has a [...]
The Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas, sitting in Houston, unanimously affirmed the jury’s verdict that International Paper Company (IP) was not liable for large civil penalties as a result of the discharge of dioxin-contaminated paper mill waste. The decision released on October 6, 2016 concerned a plant owned by IP's predecessor in Pasadena [...]
The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment, analyzed federal data from nationwide drinking water tests conducted from 2013 to 2015. The study shows communities throughout the U.S. are contaminated with the toxin Chromium 6. Chromium 6 is a toxin made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich, [...]
According to Pasadena Police, an off-duty deputy chased after and fired upon a shoplifter, with one bullet ricocheting and striking his own leg. Sunday afternoon a shoplifter at Marshalls on Fairmont Parkway in Pasadena grabbed a stack of clothes and ran out of the building. An off-duty deputy with Precinct 5 happened to be in [...]
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 [...]
Kenneth Johnson suffered brain damage as a result of a rock coming through his windshield on June 14, 2014. Two years later, he still has difficulty talking and walks with a cane. His case was one of the early cases in a string of more than 90 cases regarding rock throwing. Last week Austin police [...]
A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly taking photos up a mother's skirt as she shopped in a Pasadena, Texas, Walmart with her 1-year-old daughters. As a result of the arrest, Enrique Isaias Flores faces a charge of improper photography. The 31-year-old mother noticed the suspect taking photos, which police found once they confiscated his [...]
A Saturday morning refinery explosion injured one at Pasadena Refining Systems, Inc. Officials from the refinery say that the fire began around 10:15 a.m. The victim of the explosion suffered burns on his hands. Area residents near the Pasadena refinery say that they felt a large blast and then saw flames rising from the refinery. [...]