Articles by Kevin Whited

Various media outlets have reported on HPD’s recent success in reducing crime in the Denver Harbor area. Here’s an excerpt from the Chronicle‘s reporting on the topic: Crime has dropped almost 30 percent overall in

KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan reports on the scam artists who beg on Houston’s busy streets: On my way to work, I often pass by a veteran named James, who’s always in his wheelchair on North Shepherd.

Clarence Bradford, the Democratic candidate for District Attorney who has seemingly been in a witness protection program since announcing his candidacy, has been sighted! Chronicle diarist Lisa Falkenberg actually secured a quote from him on

The Chronicle‘s early coverage of Mayor White’s big wifi announcement today was disappointing: Houston is aiming to turn Earthlink’s lemons into the city’s lemonade. The company had to pay the city $5 million after defaulting

KHOU-11’s Leigh Frillici provides an update on the latest brazen area copper thievery: Last week, copper thieves climbed up telephone poles and took the wire. Leaving an entire neighborhood without phone service. After 11 News

On what must have been a very slow news day last week, KTRK-13 reported the following important religious news: A couple of years ago, the youth director at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church in Houston

In this week’s Houston Press, Rich Connelly details another example of our city’s fine leadership on crime: Texas Observer recently took a look at the Houston Police Department’s method of handling family-violence calls and came

KHOU-11’s Shern-Min Chow reports on one area crime lab that (unlike HPD’s crime lab) isn’t making news for all the wrong reasons: The Harris County crime lab is recognized as one of the top labs