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A Southwest Airline flight from Denver to Houston was evacuated before takeoff when a passenger’s cellphone battery caught fire.

Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump were in Texas at the same time on Friday. NBC 5’s David Goins reports Harris is in Houston for a star-studded rally, while Trump is campaigning in Austin.

Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both headed to Texas on Friday. The vice president will visit Houston, and the former president will visit Austin.

The road to the White House leads through Texas for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. NBC 5’s Larry Collins has the details.

Texas resident Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living person in the U.S., has died. She was 115 years old.

The video shows the moment the helicopter crashed into a radio tower, killing all four people aboard.

At least two workers at a Houston-area oil refinery were killed Thursday after hydrogen sulfide leaked at the plant, setting off urgent warnings for nearby residents to stay indoors before authorities later determined that the public was not in danger.

A former Houston police officer was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder of a married couple during a drug raid that revealed systemic corruption in the department’s narcotics unit.

Darryl George had sought the order to reenroll at his Houston-area high school after leaving at the start of his senior year because district officials were set to continue punishing him.

A Texas man linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution on Tuesday evening.

Police have released the name of the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a pipeline valve and sparked a four-day fire in Deer Park.

The Fort Bend County Judge, in suburban Houston, has been indicted over allegations he created fake and racist social media posts when he ran for re-election in 2022.

A pipeline fire that burned in a Houston suburb for four days finally went out Thursday as authorities announced a criminal investigation into the blaze that had roared into a towering flame, forcing neighborhoods to evacuate and melting parts of nearby cars.

Human remains were found inside the burned-out SUV at the center of the pipeline explosion in suburban Houston, police say.

Fire expected to be extinguished sometime Thursday; residents began returning home Wednesday.

A pipeline fire that erupted in a suburban Houston neighborhood is burning into a second night with still no definitive word on when the blaze would finally go out. It wasn’t clear on Tuesday when people who evacuated may be able to return home, or why a car drove through a fence and hit a valve before the destructive...

City officials said police and FBI agents found no preliminary evidence to suggest a coordinated or terrorist attack.

A 20-inch pipeline carrying liquified natural gas caught fire and now must burn itself out, authorities said.

Firefighters were battling a massive pipeline fire in suburban Houston that sparked grass fires and burned power poles on Monday, forcing people in the surrounding neighborhood to evacuate as a giant plume of fire was shooting high up into the air.

A man has been charged with murder in the shooting of a Texas deputy constable at an intersection in Houston.