BRAZORIA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

On Wednesday, investigators with the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office met with the family of Alisha Cooks and told them that remains found 36 years ago have been positively identified as the missing woman.

A massive haul of dope was kept off the streets after authorities discovered what they said was a “highly sophisticated” marijuana grow house in Freeport, the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office.

The 48-year-old Alvin ISD teacher and mother of three, was reported missing last week by her husband, who said she had been undergoing treatment for a mental health issue.

Texas police are working with law enforcement Louisiana after a missing teacher's vehicle was found in New Orleans.

Residents of Quintana Island, about 70 miles south of Houston, were being evacuated off the island as of Wednesday afternoon.

Brazoria County sheriff’s deputies believe a man was followed for about 45 miles from a high-end jewelry store near the Galleria to his home near Alvin before he was robbed in his driveway.

BRAZORIA COUNTY – A man has been arrested hours after the Amber Alert for a missing 13-year-old girl was cancelled by the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office after she returned home early Wednesday morning. Authorities issued the Amber Alert for the 13-year-old girl across Texas Tuesday night. The sheriff's office said the girl returned to her aunt's home in Manvel around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. Really, that's all we can release right now," Lt. Russ Baker with the Brazoria County Sheriff's Department said. Police arrested 38-year-old Jose Angel Ponce on Wednesday in connection with the girl's abduction.