The active shooter training facility aims to prevent another Uvalde where police waited more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman.
Monroe Trombly
Monroe Trombly is a public safety reporter at the Houston Landing. Monroe comes to Texas from Ohio. He most recently worked at the Columbus Dispatch, where he covered breaking and trending news. Before that, Monroe cut his teeth as a reporter at the Mansfield News Journal. Monroe is a Cincinnati native who earned a degree in environmental studies from the University of Cincinnati. When not writing, you can find him at the movies or on the hiking trail.
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Spring Branch ISD police shoot and kill suspected killer after string of carjackings
The murder suspect had attempted to carjack a car driven by a mother dropping off her kids at school and fled in another carjacked vehicle.
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Houston forensic crime lab not alone in facing evidence backlog
Backlog data gathered from accredited crime labs in some of Texas’ most populous counties shows that backlogs are not unique to Houston.
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State regulators order Harris County Sheriff’s Office to outsource more inmates
Amid continued staffing shortages at the Harris County Jail, state regulators on Thursday said more incarcerated people must be moved out of the troubled facility. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the jail, must present a plan by Dec. 1 to transfer an unknown number of inmates to other facilities, said Brandon Wood, executive […]
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An octogenarian murder defendant is nearing death. Should Harris County release him to hospice?
Arthur Bolar is 82, in poor health and in custody. Harris County sheriff’s officials say more judges should consider releasing people like him.
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Texas court temporarily halts execution of Houston native Will Speer
The state’s highest criminal appellate court stopped the execution of Speer on Thursday, hours before he was set to die by lethal injection.
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Houston police say Dexter Ceasar shot himself in a standoff. His family doesn’t believe them.
Authorities in Harris County have released little information definitively proving Dexter Ceasar shot himself, leaving his relatives skeptical of the claim.
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Houston native Will Speer became a model death row inmate. Is it enough to spare his life?
The 49-year-old has been convicted of two murders, including one in Harris County, but his lawyers and one victim’s sister say he deserves clemency.
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Backed by data, Liberty County sheriff disputes GOP claims about Colony Ridge crime
The number of violent crimes reported by the Liberty County sheriff each year has stayed consistent the past decade, even as the population boomed.
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‘Everyone dropped the ball’: Tenants decry housing officials’ response to unsafe apartments
Residents of two complexes in southeast Houston said local housing leaders haven’t done enough to address poor living conditions.