MISSOURI CITY

On Tuesday morning, a Vietnamese father and restaurant owner in Missouri City, Texas, successfully wrestled an alligator using tips he learned from watching the late wildlife expert Steve Irwin. While getting ready for work and his children's first day of school, Mike Trinh discovered an alligator at the front of his home after his daughter alerted him of the animal. In order to get his children to school as quickly and safely as possible, Trinh immediately recalled what Steve Irwin did on television when handling an alligator.

The back-to-school season means parents across Texas are spending their mornings getting their kids ready for the day and escorting them to campus.

Teenagers Nigel and Shane Mushambi started a baking business that combines go-getter ambition with do-gooder optimism.

A suspect is dead and an officer is recovering from two gunshot wounds after a pursuit ended in a shooting in southwest Houston, according to Houston Police Department.

Saturday Update: Imani Stephens has been found, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The restaurant, located at Highway 151 and Hunt Lane, is expected to be the first of eight SA locations for the chain.

Live Oak City Council selected Glen A. Martel, of Missouri City, as the city’s next...

A 12-week old Chihuahua is safe with her owner after a red-tailed hawk tried to snatch her up and the whole thing was caught on camera.

With the US Senate on August recess, there's very little for Democratic state lawmakers to do in Washington, DC, but they're still there.

Texas legislators recently returned to Austin for a special session to enact the restrictive voting measures sought by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott.

MISSOURI CITY, Texas – A Texas deputy mistakenly shot and killed another responding officer early Friday while searching a home after a neighbor reported a suspicious person in the area, authorities said. The shooting happened in the Sienna Plantation subdivision in Missouri City, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Houston. County sheriff’s deputies and Deputy Constable Caleb Rule responded, he said. You’ve got to pray for everybody — just a tragic, tragic scene here,” the sheriff said early Friday. Before joining the constable's office, Rule worked at the Missouri City Police Department, authorities said.