HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston’s murderous 2020 is showing no signs of slowing down. In the last three days, the city lost six more people to murder. The total now sits at 353 killings in 2020 in the city of Houston alone. It is a 45% increase over the murder rate this time last year. The increase of 109 killings …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It’s been a long and tragic year, but help with COVID-19 is on the way. Pfizer is in the process of applying for an emergency use authorization (EAU) from the FDA for its vaccine, which has proven to be 95% effective in a trial. The FDA just announced it will review Pfizer’s EUA on Dec. 10. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Five days ago, Diana Jacquelin Ortiz was killed in a wrong-way crash on US-59 south and Highway 6 as she was driving home from work. Johnny Bladimir Martinez, 35, is facing charges of intoxication manslaughter. He’s currently out an a $150,000 bond. Friends and family are still in disbelief. “It’s devastating,” one of Ortiz’s friends said. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Another round of dense fog is likely Saturday morning. If your neighborhood goes under a Dense Fog Advisory, that means the visibility outside is 1/4 mile or less. Temperatures will drop into the lower 60s as the fog forms. Once the fog burns off we should get abundant sunshine to warm temperatures into the lower 80s. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The medical examiner has officially ruled 2-year-old Maliyah Bass’ death a homicide and the primary cause of death homicidal violence. The ruling came down three months after the Houston girl’s body was found in Brays Bayou, and more than a month after Houston police arrested the girl’s mother and the mom’s boyfriend as suspects in the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A glimmer of hope is near with a possible COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon. Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said we should be in a much better place by summer 2021. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — At just 3 years old, Grace and Kaleb Okwuonu know their mom and dad love them very much, but have no idea how hard their parents have worked to make them a family. “Mommy and Daddy adopted us, and Mommy and Daddy are going to love us forever and ever,” Grace said recently on a video …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — More than three months have passed since Houston’s mask enforcement started, and despite rising coronavirus cases, has learned there’s been no documented enforcement. Right now if you’re in the city of Houston and not able to maintain social distance within a group, you’re supposed to wear a mask or you could get in trouble. Violators are supposed …

Hollywood stars Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s marriage remains one of most tumultuous ones in the industry. Owing to the Cheaper By The Dozen star’s affair on his wedding anniversary with Moore, his name has forever been sullied in the eyes of many. Opening up about their strained ties and stormy marriage that hit the rocks, the Ghost actor dished the dirt in …

Max Ehrich appears to have taken a jab at Demi Lovato after she joked about being ‘un-engaged’ during People’s Choice Awards 2020.  Lovato, who hosted the award ceremony,  talked about the whirlwind that 2020 has been for her so far. “I went into lockdown mode and got engaged…I binged seven seasons of Pretty Little Liars, got unengaged, and then I went looking for …