An Indian national has been arrested at Houston airport with jihadi literature. Mumbai resident Vijay Kumar was arrested on Friday at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston after a search of his baggage revealed jihadi books and diagrams.

Forensic tests also detected explosives residue is his luggage. Security personnel reoprtedly found books on how to spy and assemble explosives in Kumar’s luggage.

Kumar told police that he was in Houston for an Islamic seminar. He is being held on a $ 50,000 bond.

A hearing is underway in Houston as federal investigators look into the cause of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that led to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP’s Gulf of Mexico marine authority Neil Cramond was the first to testify Monday morning. Federal investigators are trying to determine the cause of the April 20th explosion on board the BP-operated rig.

Johnny Bailey, a College Football Hall of Fame member and former NFL Pro Bowl return man, has died in Houston from pancreatic cancer. He was 43.

Texas A&M-Kingsville, which announced his death Friday, said Bailey was the most honored collegiate football player in history when he attended the school from 1986 through 1989, then known as Texas A&I University.

There were 157 shots taken that night at the Staples Center.

Only one might have changed the entire path of Courtney Lee’s career.

“I think about that a lot,” he said.

It was Wednesday afternoon on another sultry summer day in Houston that found Lee smiling for the cameras and holding up the third different team jersey that he’ll wear in his third NBA season.

Texas has executed a former gang member who took part in the rape and murder of two teenage girls who were walking home from a neighborhood party 17 years ago.

Thirty-five-year-old Peter Anthony Cantu was strapped to a gurney in the Huntsville Unit prison death chamber and given a lethal injection Tuesday evening as relatives of his victims, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena, looked on.

Houston American Energy Corp. said Monday that it earned $990,134 during its most recent quarter, up sharply from the same time last year.

The oil and natural gas explorer’s profit was driven by higher prices from oil and gas sales along with increased volumes as new wells began producing in Colombia. Also, the year-ago quarter was hurt because its Colombian properties were shut down for 52 days because of falling prices.

A Texas man is accused of planning to deal what authorities estimate is $1.5 million worth of cocaine seized from a truck he was driving during an Interstate 70 traffic stop.

Hilario Medina of Houston is charged in East St. Louis with possession with intent to distribute 65 kilograms of cocaine. Investigators say the drugs were found in the cab of Medina’s truck last Thursday during the traffic stop in Madison County.

When the Rockets traded Trevor Ariza in a four-team deal that brought Courtney Lee to Houston, most saw it as a salary dump with one decent player replacing another decent player. The Rockets saved some $10 million this season , snagged a valuable $6.3 million trade exception and also cleared a logjam at small forward while upgrading its backcourt depth.

The suspect in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Houston girl was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who previously was deported twice by immigration officials, authorities said.

Melvin Alvarado, 22, was convicted of two separate intoxicated driving offenses in Harris County in 2006 and 2007, criminal records show. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail in connection with the last arrest in November 2007.

Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub seemed comfortable enough last season, leading the NFL with 4,770 passing yards.

But offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan left to join his father, Mike, with the Redskins. So the Texans have brought in Greg Knapp, who coached Schaub in Atlanta.