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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It was New Year’s Eve, and Sabina Barajas was dressed up and ready to celebrate with her family in north Houston. Just minutes after taking a video of her daughters singing karaoke, her head started pounding. “I hear my brother telling people to turn off the music,” her daughter, Esmerelda De Leon, explained. “Something happened, and I’m …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The City of Houston has dropped an arrest warrant for a 92-year-old woman who is dealing with health problems after Action 13 reached out on her family’s behalf. The warrant was issued after she failed to remove a disabled vehicle in her yard. Jay Jones said his mother, Gloria, first received a citation in 2020 from the …

Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become harder to get. Medication abortion accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S., and typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. A …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — On Dec. 13, a resident of Haven at Elgin spoke only to about his gruesome discovery. “The elevator, whenever it opened, I saw a body. He looked pretty lifeless,” the resident, who wished to stay anonymous, said. When the elevator doors opened, he found a 16-year-old boy shot to death. “I’ve never really seen a body so …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Residents in Harris County can now start submitting their applications to vote by mail for the 2024 elections. The Harris County Clerk’s Office is reminding registered voters 65 or older or disabled they have the right to receive a mail ballot for this year’s elections happening in their political jurisdictions. Those eligible can apply and mark …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Tuesday marked Inauguration Day for new Houston Mayor John Whitmire. The ceremony, held at the Wortham Theater in downtown Houston, began at 9:30 a.m. Then, Whitmire’s first City Council meeting was scheduled for 11 a.m. At 2 p.m., Whitmire is scheduled to meet and greet Houstonians in the first-floor rotunda at City Hall, which is something he …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are searching for two suspects who they said pepper sprayed a store clerk and pried open an ATM in northeast Houston. The alleged crime happened more than two months ago, on Oct. 12, 2023, at about 2:15 a.m. in the 14500 block of John F. Kennedy Boulevard. Police said one of the suspects walked up to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Undercover officers performing surveillance for a narcotics investigation were shot at by someone unrelated to the case, the Houston Police Department said on Tuesday. No one was injured, but one person was detained after the shots were fired in the 3200 block of Wayne Street, off Collingsworth, in the Greater Fifth Ward. According to HPD, the incident …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — There were 81,468 evictions filed in Harris County in 2023, according to the website JanuaryAdvisors.com. That’s up from 79,626 in 2022 – a year when filings were up 27% from the county’s historical average, according to Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. As a result of such numbers, two justices of the peace in Harris County have received …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — You may remember surveillance video that only showed you a few weeks ago of vicious stray dogs causing hundreds of dollars in damage to cars at a FM-1960 dealership. The two dogs behind the damage are now in the custody of BARC, the the city of Houston’s animal control, according to G Motors’ management. A Stafford …