Misdemeanor judges have issued a scathing letter declaring their “loss of confidence” in the director of a Harris County ...

Johnson will return to the bench after the formal dismissal of a Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct investigation into a ...

Criminal court judge Kelli Johnson returned to work after recovering from a brain injury. She was cleared to return after a state investigation was dismissed.

Judge Kelli Johnson was arrested last year, but the charges were later dropped. Her attorney said her symptoms could be blamed on a fall from a motorized scooter.

"It's not productive," Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said. "It's like if we tried to go after their sales tax revenue. It really doesn't help anybody." ...

Two detention officers working in the Harris County jail unit where a diabetic man died in his cell after not receiving insulin for days are not immune from being sued, a U.S. district judge ruled.

Melissa Morris, who has been a felony judge in Harris County since 2022, noted that while aggravated assaults are serious offenses, they don’t have to involve a gun or serious bodily injury.

Harris County commissioners on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a plan to increase the minimum wage for county employees to $20 an hour and $21.65 for contracted employees. The wage increases come ...