HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A new ice cream shop is opening today in Katy, and it will help support people with special needs. Howdy Homemade Ice Cream is located at 20920 Katy Freeway near Westgreen. The store franchise is owned and run by Houston rapper, activist and philanthropist Trae tha Truth and his business partner Roderick Batson. The business gives jobs to …

WASHINGTON — Beto O’Rourke might very well become a candidate for governor, but he wants to keep his focus on his work with grassroots civic engagement organizations for now. “I’ve committed myself to this fight for the right to vote and preserving our democracy in America,” he said Friday. “We are in really the final hours of this fight, and …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two men were injured on the campus of Houston Community College in a parking lot after an in-car altercation between four of them led to a fight over a gun Saturday. Officers with the Houston Police Department said they received an initial call about a shooting around 12:18 p.m. North Patrol Officers are on the scene …

SUGAR LAND, Texas (KTRK) — At least one person died Saturday morning in a fiery crash involving an 18-wheeler along a Sugar Land freeway feeder road. It happened some time around 7 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the US-59 feeder at Crabb River Road and caused the lanes to be closed for hours. While it wasn’t clear what exactly …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A major crash in northwest Harris County forced the closure of all northbound lanes of Highway 249 for several hours Saturday. It happened near Spring Cypress. Video from Houston TranStar cameras showed a large truck on its side in the middle of the freeway and crews working to investigate what led to the crash. That truck …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 7-year-old Houston girl is out of the hospital after she was struck by a bullet from a drive-by in the middle of the night. According to her family, a bullet pierced through the young girl’s bedroom window in the 4500 block of Rosemary Lane near Keith Road, striking her in the ankle. The child and …

Susan Wright’s campaign consultants are confident that she’s well ahead of state Rep. Jake Ellzey in North Texas’ District 6 runoff for Congress. But in advance of Tuesday’s election, Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again Action PAC has dropped a last-minute, $100,000 campaign ad buy to help secure victory for Wright, records show. The ad buy follows Trump’s restatement this week of …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Talk about a hot Summer day! Temperatures today ran up into the upper 90s across Southeast Texas. Overnight, temperatures should drop into the mid 70s but we will quickly warm up to near 99 in the afternoon. When you add in humidity, it will make it feel like 108! We also expecting another sunny day due …