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A tragic story continued unfolding this week in the case of Dennis Ray Driver Jr., the 8-month-old Houston boy who died late last year while asleep on his father's chest: The father, Dennis Driver, has been charged with murder in connection with the infant's death — and police say the boy died from taking cocaine. It happened Dec. 28, when Driver says he fell asleep with Dennis Jr. asleep on his chest; when Driver woke...

: The severed hands and feet belonged to a bear, not a person.

A little news in the story of the Baytown woman who was killed late Saturday while her car was being towed from the RV park where she lived: First of all, according to the Chronicle, her name was Cathy Deemer Soileau, not Cathy Regina Deemer as was originally reported. The Harris County Medical Examiner's office figured out her true name using DPS fingerprint records; according to medical examiner's office spokeswoman Jennifer Coston, Deemer was listed...

More details on the story of Claudia Cortes, the 23-year-old mother in whose closet a newborn baby's body was found Sunday: The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that the baby girl was strangled to death. Cortes, who was charged with tampering with evidence after she showed up at Ben Taub and insisted she hadn't given birth, though doctors found that she had, could face additional charges pending the outcome of an interview by...

So what if you and your neighbors suspected there was a dead body hidden inside one of the houses on your block, but no one took you seriously? That's apparently what happened in Midtown for weeks before police finally investigated this weekend and discovered a body in the trunk of a car parked inside the garage of a townhome. Ugh.

Two Prairie View A&M students caused the car crash early Monday morning that killed them and the driver of the other car, Harris County deptuties said yesterday. The wrong-way collision on Highway 290 near Mason Road killed Lamond Foster and Antwan McKinney, from Prairie View.