INJURIES

There's a risk of injury every time someone steps on to a playing surface. Here are ways to lessen that risk.

Houston Texans nickelback and special teams ace Tavierre Thomas has a pulled quadriceps and is out indefinitely, according to league sources.

Heavy fire has been reported at a church that erupted in flames in the Englewood neighborhood on Friday afternoon, according to the fire department.

SWAT situation ongoing at O’Hare International Airport: fire department

There were a number of injuries, including a 3-year-old who was in the Dodge, police said. The child was taken by helicopter to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.

Another in hospital with serious injuriesThe Edinburg Police Department responded to a scaffold incident Tuesday morning that left a 45-year-old man dead and sent a 51-year-old man to the hospital with serious injuries. The agency says in a news release that police responded just before 9:30 a.m. to the 1200 block of East Canton Road in reference to two men who fell from a scaffold while working on a building undergoing renovation. Police are not immediately releasing additional information pending notification of next of kin. OSHA has been notified and the investigation is ongoing, police say.

Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy told reporters on Wednesday Dak Prescott will likely miss this weekend's preseason matchup against the Houston Texans.

A Houston mother of three children injured in Saturday’s chemical spill at Hurricane Harbor Splashtown has filed a lawsuit against the park’s operators.

A woman is suffering from injuries to her face after an accident with fireworks in a Kroger parking lot on Highway 6, Fort Bend County sheriff’s deputies said.

Douglas John Kantor, 25, died from his injuries Sunday.

Have you ever been to a doctor or chiropractor and been somewhat startled when the doc delivered this news? “You have one leg that is an inch shorter than the other.”

HPD officer suffers minor injuries after suspected drunk driver slams into patrol carHOUSTON – A Houston police officer suffered minor injuries after a suspected intoxicated driver crashed into his police cruiser early Sunday. The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. on the Southwest Freeway, near Kirby Drive. The officer was blocking lanes on the freeway with his patrol car when the driver, traveling at a high rate of speed, rear-ended the unit, officials said. The driver, a juvenile, was arrested and charged on scene.

Yellow police tape was strung across Lunt Avenue on busy Clark Street. To the west, tape blocked off Lunt at Ravenswood where Metra trains stopped at the platform above. Officers directed passengers getting off the train to go around the scene.

CBS News' John Blackstone has the latest on a violent fight between protesters, police, and white supremacists in Sacramento.

A shooter at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has killed 10 and critically injured more than a dozen others. CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues and former FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko spoke to CBSN about the attack.

Oregon state police report an active shooter at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has reportedly killed 10 people and critically injured more than a dozen others

Two were killed, including the shooter, and multiple others were injured after a man opened fire at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. CBSN's Alison Harmelin and David Begnaud have the latest details.