Author: Houston Stringer

A woman was killed in the 3300 Block of the East Freeway after being ejected from her vehicle according to the Houston Police Department. The accident occurred just after 7 p.m. on August 12, 2022. https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1558286356778024963

A car caught on fire in the Summer Creek Plaza shopping center, in front of the Popeyes located at 11527 Beltway 8 North in Humble, TX. Harris County Firefighters responded to the fire around 8 p.m. on August 12, 2022, and quickly had the fire contained.

A mother is grieving after losing her 22-month-old son when a cement truck fell from an above freeway on top of a vehicle below an overpass that was carrying the Resendiz family. The family has now filed a lawsuit in the Harris County District Court asking to be compensated for their son's wrongful death and injuries sustained from the tragic accident. The accident occurred on Beltway 8 East at Woodforest on August 5, 2022. During the initial investigation, Lt. Simon Cheng with the Harris County Sheriff's Office revealed that the driver of the cement mixer stated that the truck started slipping and she lost control of the vehicle, hitting a concrete barrier. The barrier was not able to stop the cement truck, and she ended up on top of a vehicle carrying the Resendiz family, crushing the...

After nearly two years, a Pasadena man has finally been charged and arrested in connection with the brutal killing of his six-week-old son, Xavier Jr. According to court documents, on November 11, 2020, paramedics were dispatched to the 200 Block of Vista Road in Pasadena after a report of an unresponsive infant. Upon arrival, paramedics found baby Xavier and rushed him to HCA Houston Healthcare Souteast hospital. Due to the extent of the injuries, baby Xavier was flown to Texas Children's Hospital in the Houston Medical Center where he remained in critical condition for over a week. Baby Xavier was pronounced deceased on November 20, 2020. An autopsy was performed on November 22, 2022. The father, who seemed cooperative early on in the investigation told investigators early on ...

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the United States District Court in Northern California ruled on Wednesday that Walgreens "substantially contributed to an opioid epidemic in San Francisco". The lawsuit, which was brought on by the City and County of San Francisco, originally had dozens of defendants. Only four of these defendants remained when a trial was held in April. By the end of the closing arguments which took place in July 2022, only Walgreens remained. The other three defendants settled their cases, according to court documents. Judge Breyer agreed that the trial established between 2006 and 2020 that "Walgreens pharmacies in San Francisco dispensed hundreds of thousands of red flag opioid prescriptions without performing adequate due diligence". Performing this due...

A fire broke out at the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen located at 9287 Richmond Ave in west Houston overnight. Reports of the fire came in around midnight on August 10, 2022. As the first firefighters arrived on the scene, they reported smoke coming from the roof. While Houston Firefighters appeared to have saved the restaurant from major damage on the outside, it is currently unknown how extensieve the damage is inside.

First responders in Houston responded to a report of a possible shooting in the 4100 Block of Barberry Street in Sunnyside, Houston on August 9, 2022, just after 10:30 p.m. at the King's Row Apartments, a housing development in southeast Houston. Upon arrival, first responders found a female that had been grazed by a stray bullet while in a vehicle. https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1557250076728332288

A store clerk may face charges after shooting and killing a man while defending himself at a neighborhood corner store in northeast Houston. The incident occurred in the Trinity Gardens neighborhood at the Lavender Food Mart located in the 8000 block of Lavender Street at Weaver Street. Police say around 8 p.m. the suspect, a 36-year-old man walked into the store. Police say they believe the man was intoxicated with some type of substance, but it is not clear at this time what this substance could have been. At some point, the man started to assault the convenience store clerk behind the register. The store clerk, who is 23 years old, then grabbed a gun and shot the man. Northeast Patrol Officers with the Houston Police Department were then dispatched to the scene and found the m...

A federal judge in California ruled that CVS Pharmacy may have violated patients' privacy rights by forcing them to obtain their HIV/AIDS medicine either by mail order or at a local CVS pharmacy. The judge dismissed CVS' motion to dismiss. In the ruling, filed in the Northern District Court of California last week on August 5, 2022, the plaintiffs allege that CVS "have discriminatorily denied them benefits under their employer-offered prescription drug benefit plans. Plaintiffs allege that their benefit plans allow them to obtain their HIV/AIDS medications at favorable “in-network” prices only via mail or a CVS pharmacy". If the employees wanted to fulfill their prescriptions outside of their employer, they would be forced to pay higher prices since this would no longer be "in-netwo...

Firefighters with the Houston Fire Department responded to a house fire in the 6300 block of Joe Louis Lane at around 7 p.m. on August 8, 2022.