HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One year later and no one has been charged in the shooting death of a 9-year-old girl. Arlene Alvarez, her parents, and her younger brother were headed to get pizza in the Gulfgate area on Valentine’s night in 2022. At the same time, Houston police said Tony Earls was being robbed at a Chase Bank ATM. Earls got …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Proposals in Austin could give parents thousands to cover the costs of private education. But opponents fear it won’t actually give options, and it will only help families already enrolled in private schools. TEXAS SENATE BILL GIVES PARENTS $10,000 FOR PRIVATE EDUCATION When it comes to where to send their children to school, some parents want more …

WALLER COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A fatal crash killed two people along I-10 in Brookshire, and a city official believes the construction happening in the area is part of the blame. Brookshire Alderman Jeremiah Hill believes it’s time for a change. “We need the situation resolved sooner than later so we’re not having more fatalities or the continued accidents we’re having,” …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are looking for the two people believed to have shot a 67-year-old woman during a carjacking in west Houston. The woman died. Police responded to a shooting at an apartment complex in the 800 block of Yorkchester Drive at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. When authorities arrived, they found the victim dead in the parking lot, …

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) self-driving vehicle unit, Zoox, said on Monday it has successfully tested a robotaxi with employees as passengers on a public road in a move to bring it closer to commercial service for the general public. The Feb. 11 test, conducted between two Zoox buildings a mile apart at its headquarters in Foster City, California, was part …

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) giant Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer commonly known as ChatGPT will soon be integrated into web browsers now. The Browser maker Opera has jumped into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and will be one of the first browsers to integrate ChatGPT. They have announced plans to update the AI feature in new upcoming releases. The ChatGPT …

Nine people have died in Equatorial Guinea from an “outbreak” of the Marburg virus, which causes a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, the health minister said Monday, announcing that a province had been placed in quarantine. The government had announced last week that it was investigating the cause of suspect cases of hemorrhagic fever in a densely forested …

KARACHI: Fuel shortage has badly affected air ambulance service, said the owner of a private charter company. The head of a private charter company, Imran Aslam Khan, said that General Aviation is facing severe difficulties due to fuel shortages, and added that air ambulance service is also badly affected. Mr. Khan further said that the flight operations of flying schools …

Nearly three in five high school girls reported feeling sad or hopeless in 2021, representing a 60% increase over the past decade, and fared worse than boys of the same age across nearly all measures of mental health, U.S. government data showed. The data shows a “dramatic” rise in experiences of violence, poor mental health and suicide risk in teens, …