After a morning appointment at the dentist, 4-year-old Nevaeh Hall was left with severe brain damage. Her mother and and her lawyer blame the brain damage on the girl's confinement in a dental device called a papoose, which some dentists use to immobilize children for dental procedures. Hall has been diagnosed with dystonia and remains [...]
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. [...]
One person died this weekend as a result of a trench caving in on construction workers, according to the Cy-Fair Fire Department. According to authorities, a 19-year-old man was buried alive in the construction accident. The site of the accident is the corner of Cypress Drive and Mueschke Road. The construction company involved in the [...]
One person was killed while three people were injured over the weekend after a chemical tank explosion at PeroxyChem in Pasadena, Texas. Just after noon Saturday an explosion went off at the plant. The plant, PeroxyChem, is located on Bay Area Blvd. One contractor and two employees were taken to the hospital in relation to [...]
Pasadena, Texas police are investigating what appears to be a hit-and-run after a man was found in front of a bank dead. Pasadena police responded to a call around 1 a.m. Sunday in the 4000 block of Spencer Highway in Pasadena after someone reported that they saw what appeared to be a body in the [...]
A Texas contractor was fined by federal labor officials last week after one of its workers succumbed to excessive heat at a refinery in Louisiana. JV Industrial, which is based in Pasadena, Texas, faces a fine of $7,000 for a serious safety violation. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration claimed that the company failed to [...]
A motorist driving the wrong direction on Highway 146 crashed into a van last night, leaving the van driver in critical condition. The crash took place at 1 a.m. Tuesday near West Main, Baytown police told Khou.com. The car driver was heading south in the northbound lanes of Highway 146, and caused a head-on collision with [...]
A five-year-old boy was backed over by a car in Harris County Monday afternoon. What investigators are calling an accident took place in the 7500 block of Silent Wood Lane. A 68-year-old woman ran over the child, investigators told Khou.com. The driver said she didn't know the boy was there and backed over him, then [...]
The family of a Rodeo Houston volunteer announced on Monday that they have settled their lawsuit with the rodeo, and a golf cart maker, two years after the woman fell from the golf cart. That volunteer, Bonnie Herndon, is still in a coma. "We want everyone to not forget Bonnie, never forget the wonderful person, [...]
The southbound lanes of the Eastex Freeway were shut down Tuesday morning after a wrong-way driver caused a crash. According to investigators, a man was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of US 59. Around 4 a.m., he slammed into another car head on. Both drivers were taken to Ben Taub hospital, where the man [...]