Records from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science have identified the two workers who died during a deadly gas release at the Deer Park PEMEX facility last week.

The family of a single mother hit and killed while walking home over the weekend is demanding change after the hospital she was taken to says she was never brought to their emergency room.

The body of a man has been located in a Bayou in the Humble area, according to police.

Houston police say they have recovered a body that was found in the Buffalo Bayou Thursday evening.

Authorities have released the identity of the woman whose remains were found inside of a box. The victim has been identified as Flor Aidee Vega. In addition, charges have been upgraded against the man who was found carrying the box containing the woman’s dead body.

The man charged in connection with the body of a woman found in a UHaul box appeared in probable cause court Wednesday morning.

The Medical Examiner’s Office has released the identities and causes of death of two people killed when a small plane and paraglider collided in Fort Bend County.

While the work these inmates do in the community typically goes unpaid, Chris Acosta, a spokesperson for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, said “trustees refused to work unless they were compensated.” They’re making $2 per hour. Images and video show the trustees moving bodies to the eight, soon-to-be 10, mobile morgues set up outside the medical examiner’s office. El Paso County detention inmates, also known as “trustees” (low level inmates) help move bodies to mobile morgue units outside the Medical Examiner's Office on Nov. 14, 2020. Due to the recent COVID-19 surge of positive cases and deaths in recent weeks in El Paso, the Medical Examiner's Office has asked the jail for help. El Paso County recorded a total of 45 new deaths Thursday and Friday caused by the virus.

Inmates from the El Paso County jail are assisting the county medical examiner’s office as it manages a recent spike in coronavirus-related deaths. The inmates were seen at the Medical Examiner’s office in full PPE gear on Friday, working near the mobile morgues and inside the building, KTSM-TV reported. The television station posted photos of inmates in black-and-gray striped jumpsuits outside the medical examiner’s office. The prisoners were “helping them there,” KTSM-TV quoted an El Paso County Sheriff’s department spokesperson as saying. El Paso County Detention Center inmates are now tasked with helping move bodies at the El Paso Medical Examiner's Office.

HOUSTON When the city of Houston reported its first day of double-digit deaths, KPRC 2 noticed one of the deceased dated back to May 4. Persse explains only confirmed deaths from COVID-19 are reported, suspected deaths are not. One is medical, which is filled out by a doctor, hospital staff or a medical examiners office depending on where a person dies. Officials with the Harris County Medical Examiners Office also report no concerns about capacity in the morgue. As of Thursday, there have been 508 deaths reported in Houston and Harris County.