HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A special education teacher has been charged with injury to a child after Houston police said he broke a 10-year-old student’s arm at school. George Jimerson, 70, told police he was trained in Crisis Intervention Prevention and was trying to stop a student from hurting him and others as the 10-year-old reached for a plastic bag, according …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Prosecutors are expected to backtrack to the location where an SUV driver was drinking before getting behind the wheel and later slamming into a working forklift, killing two passengers on Thursday night. Houston Police Department responded to the wreck in an industrial area on Bellfort Avenue near Highway 288 at about 6:30 p.m. An Eyewitness News camera …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Two suspects are facing felony charges after 25 kilograms of meth were seized in east Harris County on Thursday, officials said. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the drugs were confiscated in the Cloverleaf area. Authorities said DPS agents with the Methamphetamine Initiative Group intercepted the drugs before they were about to be distributed. …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government pharmaceutical firms will hold talks on overcoming the shortage of medicines and the opening of letters of credit (LCs) for the imports of raw materials, citing sources. Sources told ARY News that an important meeting will be held between the pharmaceutical firms and the federal government in Karachi today. The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association chairman Farooq …

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has suggested pharma companies to use Yuan and Lira for importing medical raw materials to ensure the availability of essential medicines amid a dollar liquidity crunch, citing sources. The DRAP has come up with a plan to save pharma companies from the dollars’ scarcity effects and has offered pharma companies to open …

TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors arrested on Wednes­day a former Tokyo Olympics organising committee official and executives at three advertising agencies on suspected bid-rigging of test events for the Games, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office said. The arrests come after months of investigations into alleged corruption in the planning and sponsorship of the international sporting event that was held in 2021 …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan defeated Kuwait and Sri Lanka in the opening-day pool matches of the 21st Asian Junior Squash Team Championship in Chennai, India on Wednesday. Participating teams from 10 countries are divided into two pools. Pakistan are placed in pool ‘A’ along with Hong Kong, Korea, Sri Lanka, and Kuwait while hosts India, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, and Taipei form pool …

KARACHI: A three-member delegation of Swindon Town Football Club (STFC) comprising vice chairman STFC Zavier Austin, Coach Alex Pike and Chris Hull of Sky Sports are these days in Karachi to arrange for travel to England of a coach and players from the football hub of Pakistan, Lyari. The aim is to coach and train the youth to bring them …

KARACHI: After coming to terms with the fact that the 19-year-old Naseem Shah lead the Pakistan pace attack across all three formats since playing his first white-ball game only months ago, what is more pleasantly surprising is how the man thinks, speaks and carries himself off the field. In an interview published recently, Pakistan bowling coach Shaun Tait said Naseem …