After four workers died in a toxic gas leak in November 2014 in La Porte, Texas, the Chronicle obtained the chemical inventories of more than 2,500 businesses in the Houston area. Chemical safety experts then ranked the potential of each facility to kill or injure people as well as to cause property or environmental damage. [...]
Federal agents are probing the death of a Texas woman who was lost at sea last week. The mother of four apparently fell off the cruise ship's deck as it traveled from Galveston to Cozumel, Mexico. The body of Samantha Broberg, 33, has not yet been found. The FBI says that they're coordinating with Carnival [...]
A four-alarm fire in Houston on Thursday caused the release of hazardous materials as well as fireballs to shoot up in the sky. No injuries were reported at the warehouse. The inferno at A-1 Custom Packaging and Filling started just before 10 a.m. in the Spring Branch neighborhood. Police say that the fire started as [...]
A La Porte, Texas woman is accused of disseminating nude photographs of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. Allegedly she sent the photos to many of the people on the contact list of the new girlfriend's phone. Kaitlyn Elizabeth Wriggle, who is 23 years old, is accused of improper photography as she allegedly sent photos of the [...]
Authorities are on the hunt for a man who was driving a white pickup truck when he hit and killed a pedestrian on Texas 249. He swiped another vehicle after hitting the man. Around 2:15 a.m. on Saturday a woman saw a man walking in the far right lane of the Texas 249 feeder road, [...]
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 large fire in southeast Houston overtook the LyondellBasell plant Friday and resulted in a shelter in place order for much of the area. The fire started around 10 a.m. at Houston Refining in a coker unit, which is part of the refining process. The facility is located at 12000 Lawndale. The Houston Fire Department [...]
DuPont is closing a Texas plant where four died in 2014 as a result of a gas leak. The LaPorte, Texas pesticide plant had been idle following the accident. While DuPont wouldn't disclose the number of people who are employed at the LaPorte DuPont facility, they did confirm that positions would be retained for de-commissioning [...]
Former Pasadena rodeo official Angela Marie Hawthorne has been accused of stealing more than $32,000 from the Pasadena Livestock Show & Rodeo. The former official is being held in Harris County Jail and is being charged with theft. She was the business manager of the rodeo at the time of the alleged embezzlement. According to [...]
Last week a former neighbor confronted a Deer Park resident and then shot the victim five times before he fled in his truck. Starsky Valdez was arrested during a traffic stop the following day, and he is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Valdez's wife Chassidy insists that her husband opened fire at [...]