HOUSTON – A 23-year-old man who recruited young teenage girls and forced them to engage in sex acts with clients for money in cars and hotels around the “Bissonnet track” has been sentenced to over 30 ...

FILE: Two gates have been placed on part of Bissonnet Street in southwest Houston where prostitution has historically been commonplace. The gates block off part of the street between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m ...

Houston man Jonathan Smith-Byrd is facing up to life in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of running a sex ...

Jim Padgett, 81, still remembers the barbershop he strolled by as a teen in the 1940s on Bissonnet Street near Rice Avenue. "They offered special haircuts for bald men," said Padgett, who now lives in ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Local law enforcement has seen an uptick in sex trafficking in southwest Houston, so in an effort to reduce the presence of prostitution in the area, community leaders are ...

Violent crime is down by 22% and robberies by 36% along the Bissonnet Corridor since Houston police began blocking roadways every night to curb human trafficking and prostitution, officials said. At ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In less than two years, Houston police have reported more than 3,800 crimes on what's known as the "Bissonnet Track," and one-fourth of them have been related to prostitution.

HOUSTON — Houston will get nearly $29 million to make one of its busiest and deadliest streets safer. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the money for upgrades along a 7-mile stretch of ...