On Friday, the Fort Bend County Fire Marshal arrested 51-year-old Samantha Morris. She is charged with operating a boarding home without a permit.

Nine people were rescued from a Fort Bend County group home Friday morning, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office.

Several people were rescued from a Fort Bend County group home Friday morning, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office.

Houston police and the Texas Center 4 Missing are searching for a 37-year-old missing man.

An investigation is underway at a southwest Houston group home after a man with special needs said he was shot by someone who was supposed to be his caretaker -- apparently over barbecue chicken.

A Houston man was recently charged with molesting a 15-year-old girl two years after she made an outcry during a hospital visit.

Harris County Constable Precinct 5 deputies shut down a boarding house in Katy Thursday, according to a Facebook post. Investigators said they found residents living in deplorable conditions.

She said residents lived in fear of violence from the home’s owner and other managers. Cynthia Jackson, 60, said she had nowhere else to go in August 2019, after she was released from Ben Taub Hospital’s psychiatric ward. “The caseworker (at Ben Taub) told me that they were going to call the group home,” she said. Jackson said many of the residents at the group homes where she lived between August 2019 and August 2020 came from Ben Taub Hospital. If they had an income and Ben Taub would send them there, he would say 'put 'em somewhere,” Jackson said.