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A father has been charged with murder on Friday after allegedly shooting a drunk driver moments after he plowed into his truck killing his two young sons. David Barajas, 31, and his sons, 12-year-old David Jr. and 11-year-old Caleb, were about 50 yards from their Houston-area home when a car crashed into them on a dark rural road. David Jr. died at the scene, while Caleb died later at a hospital.

Carlton Berry, 22, was charged with aggravated assault in the shooting at Lone Star College, which left four people hospitalized.

Two students at a college near Houston, Texas, were struck by gunfire on Tuesday after shooting broke out between two people on the campus, a college official said on CNN.

A passing motorist found a body in the trunk of a car parked in a ditch in northeast Houston, Texas, The Houston Chronicle reported.

Advice for potential bank robbers: don't create a trail of posts bragging about your successful $62,000 robbery on Facebook. Unfortunately this tip would've actually been helpful for four suspected of robbing the International Bank of Commerce in Houston, Texas.

Houston, Texas, police were investigating the death of a child whose burned body was found Tuesday morning in a drainage ditch.

Startling residents and weather experts, the Texas city sets a record for the earliest snowfall ever, prompting a winter storm warning for the state's southeast region.

A suspect has been arrested in the 1990 abduction and rape of an 8-year-old Texas girl, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Houston, Texas, office said. The victim, Jennifer Schuett, is now 27. She recently shared her story with CNN in hopes of someday bringing her attacker to justice.

Houston, Texas, had a record high temperature Wednesday as a heat wave continues to grip the nation's midsection, the National Weather Service said Thursday.