Six students from Rice University in Houston are creating a beer than contains more of the red wine's healthy ingredients that help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

The research team's leader, junior Taylor Stevenson, said they are using genetic engineering to create a beer with a higher resveratrol content.

A man who confessed to strangling his ex-girlfriend before dismembering her and cooking her remains on two patio grills was convicted Thursday in a Houston court.

Timothy Wayne Shepherd now faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Texas police arrested a 38-year-old mother and her two teenage daughters for stabbing to death a 75-year-old man whom they robbed of $15.

Police arrested Dannette R. Gillespie and her 19-year-old daughter Vanessa Anne Ocampo and another 15-year-old daughter for the killing of Eugene Palma.

FBI agents arrested a Houston woman Thursday who refused to return five children victims of Hurricane Katrina to their mother and recovered the kids she allegedly kidnapped.

Rhonda Tavey, 44, was at her mother's home in northwest Houston when authorities arrested her, her attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told Chron.com. She is now detained at the Harris County Jail without bail and will appear in court Friday to face charges of kidnapping.

The skinny prisoner who escaped his jail cell through an air-conditioning vent last weekend has been caught.

The Houston Chronicle reported that Darryl Layne Norris, 26, was arrested Tuesday night after police tracked him to a Houston hotel. He was found swimming in the pool.