HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston Police are hoping a clear and startling surveillance video will help them catch the robbers who attacked a woman in Chinatown.The robbery happened in broad daylight on Dec. 4, 2019.In the video released Tuesday, you can see a woman walking from the parking lot at 9318 Bellaire Blvd., towards a restaurant in the shopping center.The …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It’s safe to say Astros fans will be buying more than peanuts and Cracker Jacks at a home game this season. Minute Maid Park unveiled a variety of new food options on Tuesday. The new Buffalo Chicken Totchos are perfect for tater tot lovers. The tots are topped with Buffalo chicken, blue cheese crumbles, ranch dressing …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Winter is blowing back into Houston. The cold air will spread through southeast Texas this morning behind a strong cold front. Scattered showers and a few rumbles of thunder and some small hail are possible in the stronger storm. Temperatures will be in the mid 50s around sunrise, then fall into the mid 40s before sunset. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Texas Southern University board of regents has officially voted to fire its president, Dr. Austin Lane. The board met Tuesday night to decide Dr. Lane’s future, voting six to one. “They didn’t mention anything that links anything to myself or any of my administrative team. We didn’t hear one fact that they were able to …

The Houston Rockets acquired the Minnesota Timberwolves‘ Robert Covington and traded center Clint Capela to the Atlanta Hawks as part of a four-team, 12-player deal on Tuesday night, league sources told ESPN. The NBA’s most expansive trade in nearly 20 years saw the Timberwolves acquire two first-round picks, including Houston’s 2020 pick, which they moved on to the Denver Nuggets for guard Malik Beasley and forward Juan Hernangomez, sources said. The Timberwolves keep the …

  KARACHI: Another poliovirus case emerged in Sindh’s Kashmor district, said Emergency Operation Centre for Polio on Wednesday. After the latest case in Sindh, the tally of polio cases in the current year became three from the province. As per the emergency centre, the virus was confirmed in a three-year-old girl. This year, so far, eight polio cases have been …

LONDON: Vaccine group Gavi said it would help to innoculate up to 45 million children in countries in Asia and Africa over the next six months. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will work with governments and groups including the World Health Organization and UNICEF to target children under five years old, the age group most vulnerable to the disease. Cases have …

BEIJING: The number of confirmed deaths from China´s coronavirus outbreak rose to at least 490, after authorities in ground-zero Hubei province reported 65 new fatalities on Wednesday. In its daily update, figures from the health commission in Hubei, which has been hit hardest by the virus, also showed a jump in confirmed infections with 3,156 new cases. That puts the …

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) — A wrecker driver has been hospitalized after authorities say he was found shot in Spring. Deputies responded to an initial call of a major crash in the 2000 block of Spring Stuebner Wednesday morning. When they arrived, deputies found a wrecker driver in a ditch with a gunshot wound to the chest. Harris County Sheriff Ed …

GENEVA: The dramatic measures taken by China to rein in the deadly new coronavirus outbreak have prevented significant spread abroad, providing a “window of opportunity” to halt transmission, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. But the UN health agency´s chief also called for greater solidarity, accusing some governments of wealthy countries of being “well behind” in sharing data on virus …