The newly inaugurated mayor says Houston needs more police officers on the street, but he’s been light on detailed plans for making it happen.
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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Can’t afford a lawyer? Here are the free legal resources available in Harris County
Several Harris County nonprofits and organizations are providing free advice for Houston residents in need of legal counsel.
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Colony Ridge vendió más de 35,000 propiedades. Casi la mitad terminaron en sus manos nuevamente.
Una investigación de Houston Landing revela que el desarrollador más grande de Liberty County rutinariamente vende, reclama, y re-vende propiedades a una comunidad mayormente Latina.
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Colony Ridge sold over 35,000 properties. Nearly half ended up back in its hands.
A Houston Landing investigation reveals an unusually high turnover rate of Latino-owned properties in Colony Ridge, Liberty’s County’s largest developer.
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With Uvalde in mind, former New Caney school to become active-shooter training facility
The active shooter training facility aims to prevent another Uvalde where police waited more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman.
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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.