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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Thursday afternoon is going to be extremely hot, but it will also come with a small chance for thunderstorms that could back wind gusts over 60 mph. The day will begin warm with lows around 80, but once the sun comes up, it’s off to the races for the temperature. The setup is similar to Sunday when …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man is dead after he and another person stopped to offer help to strangers in a stalled car in southwest Houston overnight. It’s a situation that police admit is confusing. Houston police said there were two people in a vehicle that was stalled out on South Main Street at Fondren Road around midnight. Two strangers in …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man accused of causing a crash that killed a man and a 2-month-old baby in the Aldine area before running from the scene turned himself in on Tuesday, according to deputies. Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Vazquez, 30, is charged with two counts of failure to stop and render aid. He appeared in probable cause court overnight, where …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The State Supreme Court ruled to let Senate Bill 1750 become law on Sept. 1. That means Harris County’s election administrator is out of a job for now, and he will not run for the Nov. 7 general election. The legislature passed SB 1750, and Gov. Greg Abbott signed it, but Harris County sued to stop …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man will spend almost six decades behind bars for killing a man he got into a fender bender with three years ago, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Treyivion Shaquille Ross, 26, was convicted of murder after brutally beating David Ray Young, 56, who died two years after the incident. It was 2020 when …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — On July 29, 2016, hours after Dawn and Antonio Sr. were shot to death, their 16-year-old son, A.J. Armstrong, was driven to HPD headquarters in downtown Houston. After he was read his rights, Armstrong was questioned by two detectives for just under an hour, then arrested and charged with capital murder. Seven years and three trials later, Armstrong …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — During the first annual budget meeting for Harris County Commissioners on Tuesday, criminal justice and public safety took center stage during public comment. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez spoke to county commissioners, asking for a 7% increase in funding. He said deputies are being stretched thin and working long hours, as they’re seeing an increase in fatal …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police launched their helicopter late Tuesday night in the midst of a search for a person who took off at the end of a vehicle chase. Multiple law enforcement vehicles converged on Clark Park, near Dipping Lane and Clark Road, on the city’s northside, where an eyewitness spotted two people being handcuffed next to a patrol …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man convicted of prostituting two minors along Bissonnet in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years behind bars, now five years later. According to records, Johnny Parks was known to the girls as “Daddy,” and he took them shopping, paid for hotel rooms, and would drop them along Bissonnet to prostitute themselves. The girls were 14 and …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A teacher’s employment with Houston ISD is over before it ever really started after she said the district dramatically reduced the salary she was promised. The woman, whose identity agreed to conceal because she is afraid of retaliation by the district, officially rejected the employment offer last week. “I have been completely bamboozled,” she said. She received …