At Chuck E Cheese, a kid can be a kid. Not so, however, in Harris County, where we prosecute more teens as adults than do four other heavily populated Texas counties....combined. Judges and prosecutors think we can expect the number of teens in prison to increase in the coming years as well, since recent sex scandals at the Texas Youth Commission (the juvenile hall end of the law) have led to a new rule where......

Good morning, Houston. Have you ever looked at your pet gerbil and thought, "Y'know, Nibbles really looks like an ibex?" If so, you might consider seeing an eye doctor — or entering the Houston Zoo's Naturally Wild photo contest. The zoo and KTRK are looking for photos of pets that look like wild animals; if yours makes the cut, you could win a family membership to the zoo and a gift card from Petco.......

Huntsville death row inmate Michael Dewayne Johnson, scheduled to die tonight for his role in the 1995 slaying of Waco convenience store clerk Jeff Wetterman, declined to be executed: instead, he killed himself. Johnson was found unresponsive in a pool of blood around 2:45 AM, by a guard making one of the quarter-hourly checks requisite for those about to be executed. Johnson wrote words on the wall in his own blood after slashing his......

More than 20 area firefighters have been questioned about a series of arsons in east Harris County; officials say two Cloverleaf firefighters are suspected of setting, then responding to, fires in at least two buildings A Texas Department of Corrections employee was run over by a bus this morning while she was transporting prisoners downtown; the extent of her injuries isn't known If Galveston has to be evacuated ahead of a major hurricane, 100 air-conditioned......