Officials say no one has been hurt during strong storms and possible tornadoes in Northeast Texas that damaged some structures and dumped hail as big as golf balls.

Several days of subfreezing temperatures resulted in frozen water pipes which are now leaking in homes across the state. With temperatures now warming above the freezing mark, homeowners are discovering water leaks and rushing to call plumbers for help.

Police are looking for two men who stole jewelry valued at $2 million from a Sugar Land store after smashing display cases with a hammer.

A Northwest Side furniture store left their sprinklers on overnight, causing iced-over roads and at least four crashes, police said. Police officers on scene did not know whether it is a violation of city ordinances for businesses to leave sprinklers on overnight in freezing weather.

Insurers will have to pay claims of around $135 billion for 2017, the most ever, following a spate of hurricanes, earthquakes and fires in North America, according to a report published on Thursday.

Ice on the road caused dozens of accidents across our area Wednesday morning. A thick sheet of ice covered the intersection near Weslayan and Westheimer. Drivers say the ice was impossible to see as they drove through the area.

The parking lot of the strip center near Beechnut and Highway 6 began 2018 with reminders of 2017 strewn across the asphalt. Countless cardboard containers, most of them charred beyond recognition are evidence of a huge fireworks party that left a mess for the strip center and incredible damage to one man’s car.

An Amtrak train and a semi truck collided in San Marcos, Monday evening. None of the 150 passengers or crew on board the train were injured.

When Hurricane Harvey sent two feet of water rolling into this small community about 35 miles north of Houston, Alfredo Becerra had to flee his modest 1,500-square-foot house. Muddy floodwater submerged the furniture and ruined carpet inside the construction worker’s longtime home.

The Court of Appeals of the 9th District of Texas at Beaumont affirmed a judgment in favor of an insurance company in a case involving damages to a home from Hurricane Ike.

The specialist Lloyd’s of London insurance and reinsurance marketplace has now paid out $1.7 billion in claims following hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on Thursday, will go down as one of the most expensive in American history. The notorious storms of 2017 — hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria — may have had innocuous names.

A home caught fire Thanksgiving Day while a family was cooking a turkey inside, according to the Eastex Fire Department. When firefighters arrived at the scene, the home was engulfed in flames.

A federal jury in Dallas on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit to pay $247 million to six patients who said they were injured by defective Pinnacle hip implants.

New data released today by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows a total of 22,705 vehicles were reported stolen on the 11 holidays in 2016 covered in this report. NICB theft data is pulled from the National Crime Information Center’s (NCIC) stolen vehicle file, which showed a total of 803,719 vehicle thefts for the year.