Faizan Zaki, a 6th grader from Plano ISD’s Rice Middle School, finished in second place in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and hoped to become the 17th national winner from the Lone Star State. Bruhat Soma, 12, of St. Petersburg, Florida took the top spot Thursday night. The 12-year-old was one of eight students from around the country who …

Thursday was another day of trying to piece lives back together in the community of Valley View. Jessica Davis got much-needed help clearing debris at her damaged home from volunteers with Valley Creek Church. “Actually, it means a lot because there is so much debris and some of it is actually heavy enough my family and I cannot move it,” …

A man was rescued from a vehicle in Dallas after it got stuck in high water Thursday afternoon. Dallas Fire-Rescue crews said they were called around 4 p.m. for a car stuck in the park. “It was pretty bad. This area floods quite often, and when it floods, it’s really bad,” Dallas Fire Battalion Chief Michael Meador said. Texas Sky …

Carlos Ramos and Martha Perez are struggling to understand a world without their son, Jaden Ramos, who had just turned five years old. Jaden was riding his bicycle in his neighborhood, the Glen Knoll Mobile Home Park in Wylie, when he was hit by a car on Wednesday. Police said they got the call around 6:30 p.m. They said Jaden …

Torrential rains made for a waterlogged commute on North Central Expressway on Thursday afternoon. Flash floods caused several cars to stall on busy frontage roads in McKinney. Gayle Carr’s Toyota Camry stalled on the frontage road in front of the U.S. Post Office near E. Bois D’ Arc Road in McKinney at about 11:45 a.m. She was trying to get …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with capital murder in connection with a fatal shooting in west Houston earlier this year. The Houston Police Department reports that 18-year-old Bryan De La Cruz Chaparro was killed during a robbery at an apartment complex located near Wilcrest and Briar Forest in February. According to the original report, HPD …

In the wake of this weekend’s deadly North Texas tornadoes that devastated four counties and killed seven people, we’re also hearing stories of miraculous survival. 23-year-old Elizabeth Gilbert and her fiancé 26-year-old Zach Moore were sheltering inside their Valley View home when it was wiped off the map by the storm, sending them both to the ICU with severe injuries. …

As another round of storms soaked an already saturated North Texas, Oncor said crews working to restore power to more than 100,000 customers were slowed. “I feel like we deserve to know what the next week is going to look like and right now we just have no idea,” said Mina Shamsa Burns. Shamsa Burns is now 72 hours into …

Guilty on all counts. That’s the verdict from a New York jury in the trial of former president Donald Trump. It’s the first time an American president has been convicted of a crime. The jury in Manhattan found the 45th president guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election by …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston Mayor John Whitmire has called for the termination of “ShotSpotter,” a gunshot detection tool intended to help fight crime. ShotSpotter, deployed in northwest and southeast Houston, uses technology to alert the Houston Police Department (HPD) to gunshots. However, Whitmire expressed doubts about its efficacy. “It’s a gimmick,” Whitmire told on Thursday afternoon. Data from Investigates …