Four teens have been charged with capital murder in the fatal carjacking of a Houston man who was stabbed and shot in front of his wife and daughter last weekend. After a brief struggle, one teen shot the 40-year-old father and another stabbed him with a knife, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with the Harris County District Clerk's office. The deputy placed the driver and passenger, both 15-year-olds, in the backseat of his patrol car in which a digital recording device had been activated.

In a new episode of the long-running battle between sexually oriented businesses and government officials, attorneys for Harris County and the city of Houston filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to have the Treasures strip club declared a public nuisance and shut down. The filing alleges that 5647 Westheimer is the location of human trafficking, habitual prostitution and drug activity where owners, management and employees engage in "gang related organized criminal activities that constitute a public nuisance." Treasures attorney Al Van Huff said the club is being targeted in retaliation for challenging the city's sexually oriented business ordinance and because the city has not persuaded the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to cancel or block the renewal of the establishment's liquor license. The filing further alleges that "Treasures maintains a façade of legitimacy to facilitate an organized 'combination' of manager-employees, pimps and prostitutes" and that the "city and state have no other adequate remedy at law to prevent the continued maintenance of the property as a common and public nuisance." The trafficking allegations stem from police probes revealing that some of the dancers are transported from Nevada to Texas, then from club to club within Houston, and reside in Galleria- area apartments and condos "where they are maintained by the pimps," Feldman said at a news conference.