Sean Teare, a Democrat, won a tight race to become Harris County’s first new district attorney in eight years. He defeated Dan Simons, a Republican.

Simons, a 46-year-old former assistant district attorney and chief prosecutor in a misdemeanor court, said Teare would inject politics into the office because of his support from Harris County ...

Sean Teare will be Harris County’s next district attorney. On the agenda: bail reform, domestic violence and weeding out bad charges.

Former prosecutor Sean Teare was elected Harris County District Attorney by a thin margin over Republican Dan Simons on Wednesday morning as thousands more ballots were added up. Teare won the ...

It's a new year, and Harris County has a new district attorney. Sean Teare took the oath of office at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday. He defeated his former boss, Kim Ogg, in the Democratic primary, won ...

The aim of the measure, a key campaign promise of new Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, is to streamline cases and end the county’s court backlog, plagued by high dismissal rates and ...