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Fake toll and traffic violation texts target Harris Co. residents: DCO

  • Sep 17, 2025

Don't click on that scam text from 'Amazon.' Here's what to know

  • Aug 20, 2025

Amazon scam: FTC issues warning about texts offering 'refunds'

  • Aug 2, 2025
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Pentagon watchdog launches probe into Signal chat

  • Apr 3, 2025

Atlantic's Goldberg responds to pushback

  • Mar 26, 2025

Lawsuit over Signal group chat assigned to judge in deportation case

  • Mar 26, 2025

Did you get an unpaid toll bill text? Officials warn of new scam

  • Feb 21, 2025

'Smishing': US Postal Service issues warning about text message scam

  • Dec 17, 2024

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'This is going too far': Texas rep. appears to pursue staffer who died in explicit text messages

  • Feb 24
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Harris County officials give new warning about toll road text scam targeting drivers

  • Feb 21, 2025
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Racist text messages referencing slavery raise alarms in multiple states and prompt investigations

  • Nov 8, 2024
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Text messages from retired teacher killed in senior center show motive

  • May 1, 2024
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Scammers luring victims with fake package tracking texts

  • Dec 22, 2021
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Humble ISD teacher accused of child porn possession due in court

  • Dec 15, 2021
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New Jersey teens look to raise global morale 1 cheer at a time with Project CheerUP!

  • Feb 5, 2021
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Tired of political texts? 13 Investigates ways to stop the text wave

  • Oct 23, 2020

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Grandma and man she accidentally texted for Thanksgiving to reunite for 9th year

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton, former strangers who met eight years ago in a mistaken text message exchange, are reuniting for their ninth Thanksgiving celebration this week.

  • Nov 26, 2024

Woman sends life-saving 911 text while allegedly being held against her will in captor's car

Unable to make a voice call, the victim used the text service to alert authorities that the driver, George Peters, from Houston, was intoxicated and had threatened to kill her.

  • Nov 4, 2024
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Arizona 12-year-old has been receiving 'get better' texts meant for 49ers' Ricky Pearsall

49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall is getting more support than he may realize after being injured in a shooting. A 12-year-old boy in Arizona has Pearsall's old number and says he's been receiving hundreds of well wishes.

  • Sep 6, 2024

New arrest made in deadly Spring shooting after text messages, GPS monitor tie suspect to murder

Not only did investigators track the suspect's location using a GPS monitor, but they found he had allegedly been texting the victim to meet up where the shooting took place.

  • Aug 14, 2024

Text messages from retired teacher killed in senior center show motive

Only on ABC13 you'll see the chilling text messages from Carol Webber, who was trying to break things off with the man accused of killing her.

  • May 1, 2024