One suspect and one civilian were killed in Houston on Sunday when at least one gunman began shooting at cars in an apparently random and unprovoked attack, CNN reports. Three bystanders, two police officers and one possible suspect were also wounded, though none of them seriously.

On Monday, at a meeting of the local Republican Party in the third-most-populous county in the United States, a Christian pastor who serves as chaplain for the Harris County GOP tried to stop a Muslim man from serving as a precinct chair because of his religion. “Islam does not have any basis or any foundation,” the pastor, Trebor Gordon, said. “It is the total opposite of our foundation.”

Voters in the city of Houston today, after a nearly 18-month battle during which the city’s lesbian mayor was sent hundreds of protest bibles, rejected nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people.

Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, was fatally shot multiple times on Friday evening while filling up his patrol car at a gas station in suburban Houston, Texas. A manhunt for the suspect, who approached the uniformed Goforth from behind before shooting him, continued Saturday.

49-year-old David Conley has been charged with three counts of capital murder in connection with five children and three adults found dead in a Houston-area home last night, the AP reports. One count is said to cover multiple deaths while another is for a person under 6 years of age.

Authorities say the bodies of eight people, including five children, were found inside a Houston-area home Saturday night after an hour-long standoff with a man who shot at police, the Associated Press reports.

On Tuesday, a Houston man was arraigned on capital murder charges after police say he beat his 3-year-old son to death as punishment for wetting himself, KHOU-TV reports.

At least two people were killed after flash floods ripped through Houston following an estimated 10 inches of rain last night.

Officials announced that evidence from 6,663 untested rape kits in Houston has produced 850 hits in the FBI's national DNA database, the Associated Press reports. Charges have already been filed against 29 people since the $6 million effort to clear the backlog was launched in 2013.

According to an assistant imam, investigators have found signs that a fire at an Islamic center on Friday was set deliberately, the Houston Chronicle reports.

Former President George H.W. Bush was taken to a Houston hospital by ambulance Tuesday night after experiencing "shortness of breath," the Associated Press reports.

A Texas cop is facing charges after he allegedly shot a female driver in a road rage incident earlier this month.

A Houston restaurant manager issued an apology after two customers complained about a gay server by writing "Don't want to listen to a faggot through my whole meal," on their receipt. She said "I'm sorry" to the asshole customers.

After news broke that first openly-gay NFLer Michael Sam had signed to the Dallas Cowboys practice squad, Houston's Fox 26 apparently snuck a dumb gay joke about Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo into its news crawl: "Tony Romo, still the gayest player on the Cowgirls."

Houston Police spent five hours this morning cleaning up a highway covered in beer after an 18-wheeler carrying dozens of cases of Busch beer and a car collided on the Katy Freeway. KHOU reports that the 18-wheeler jackknifed and rolled over, spilling the hundreds of beer cans across multiple lanes of the highway.

The Spring, Texas shooter who allegedly killed six of his family members execution-style fainted in court today. The Associated Press reports that Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, collapsed after hearing a prosecutor read the charges against him.

According to prosecutors, the man behind yesterday's grisly shooting in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas forced his way into Stephen and Katie Stay's home, tied them and their five children up, and made them lie face-down before shooting them "execution-style." Police arrested Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, last night after a chase and an hours-long standoff. He has been charged with one count of capital murder.

A 15-year-old girl who was injured in Wednesday night's deadly Texas shooting was able to stop the perpetrator from killing more people, according to police. ABC News reports that the girl called 911 after she was shot in the head to provide key information about the shooter and his plans.

Six people, including four children, were shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in Spring, Texas, north of Houston. After a chase, police have cornered the shooter in a neighborhood cul de sac. According to police, the shooting occurred as part of a domestic dispute.

A serial pooper is on the loose in Houston. Residents of the Woodland Heights neighborhood say one man—pictured above—has repeatedly shit on their sidewalks and in their yards, striking the yard of one unlucky house at least six times.