HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Thursday may become the biggest day of regular season baseball in Houston ever. OK, that might be overselling it, but when the teams with the two best records in the American League clash, against a backdrop of animosity born out of the Astros’ cheating scandal, hyperbole is appropriate. The ‘Stros have a rare-for-Minute Maid Park doubleheader …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Get ready for another dangerously hot afternoon in SE Texas as temperatures soar to 100+. Heat index values are expected to hit 108 which is why the NWS has issued an areawide Heat Advisory until 8 pm Thursday. Keep taking all necessary precautions if you work outdoors by staying hydrated and taking breaks indoors or in …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Investigators are searching for a pickup truck driver after a 16-year-old boy was hit and killed in the Alief area. According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the teen was being chased by a dog in the 14100 block of Alief Clodine shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday. While he was being chased, the teen reportedly …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — An 18-year-old has been charged with the death of one of the four victims killed in a northwest Harris County shooting, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. On Wednesday, Gonzalez shared that 18-year-old Eric Reyes was charged with murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Carlos Arellano. Reyes was arrested on an unrelated incident in Bell County, …

July 20 is Glioblastoma Day, which helps raise awareness of one of the rarest and deadliest forms of brain cancer. The average length of survival for patients after being diagnosed is eight months, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. But doctors are optimistic as advances in research have helped extend patients’ lives even for a short period. “I had …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — CenterPoint Energy launched a new outage tracker tool on Tuesday for its 2.6 million electric customers across the greater Houston area. The energy company said the outage tracker features enhanced service maps, outage statistics, restoration status, and an advisory section for reporting weather or system status. Users can search for an outage by zip code or …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Texas-based company admitted to fraud after selling NASA potentially tainted rocket fuel, according to U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Lowery said Anahuac Transport Inc. admitted to falsifying its records and delivering potentially tainted rocket fuel for NASA and Department of Defense (DOD) rocket launches. Corporate representatives Gary Monteau and Brant Charpiot admitted their guilt on …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Less than five weeks after Houston learned it will be a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the biggest sporting event on the globe, the Bayou City is once again on soccer’s center stage. Wednesday at NRG Stadium, the same venue which will host multiple matches in the 2026 World Cup, the 2022 Copa de …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — There are 81 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Texas. That number has increased from the number of cases on June 18, and Harris County currently accounts for more than a dozen of them. On Wednesday, Galveston County also reported its first probable case. The county’s health department shared that the patient is from out of state but is …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported as many as seven Covid-related deaths while 592 fresh cases of the pandemic have been reported in the country during the last 24 hours, the data shared by National Institute of Health (NIH) said on Wednesday. According to the NIH report, 21,264 Covid tests were conducted across the country in the past 24 hours, out of …