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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A former Houston ISD secretary pleaded guilty this week to stealing about $35,000 in school activity funds and will have to pay the money back, as well as damage from a small fire that she set to divert attention, according to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. Adriana Castorena-Narvaez pleaded guilty and was convicted of felony misapplication …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The number of cyclist fatalities are on track to double in Houston compared to what we saw last year. Pedestrian deaths are also on the rise compared to 2022. Vision Zero, the city’s task force working to get traffic deaths down to zero, tells the city is building and expanding bike and walk paths as fast as …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A northeast Houston neighborhood is demanding accountability after a woman living in a group home triggered a lockdown at the nearby elementary school. On Thursday at about 4 p.m., a woman walked into Summerwood Elementary and demanded to pick up a child. Humble ISD said when school officials began questioning, she started screaming and hurling insults. The …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — After a year of having her personal information posted online by her ex-boyfriend, a jury awarded a Houston woman $1.2 billion this week. The woman, who is being identified as Jane Doe, filed the lawsuit in Harris County Civil Court in April 2022. In the petition, the woman said she began a dating relationship with Marques Jamal …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Firefighters said hot spots seen flaring up at a northwest Houston recycling center late Friday night were controlled burns. The sighting was a contrast to what SkyEye captured hours earlier when nearly the entirety of the warehouse complex was burning. The Houston Fire Department said it received a call of a trash fire before 5 p.m. in …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A happy JV Day to you and yours, Houston. Justin Verlander’s triumphant return to the mound inside Minute Maid Park on Friday will help kick off Astros Hall of Fame weekend, when Bill Brown and Billy Doran get inducted into illustrious company. JV starting, especially with his return to the Astros now 11 days old, can be seen as no coincidence. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — On the night before Kayra Armstrong lost her parents, she said she and her mom shared some queso in the kitchen before they went upstairs. Then, Kayra set the house alarm and went to sleep in the room across the hall from Dawn and Antonio Sr. on the second floor. The next thing Kayra remembers was being …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — For weeks, it’s been brutally hot out. To stay comfortable and safe, the last thing you want to do is stand in the sun for an extended period. If you’re a user of public transportation, that could be your reality, as quarter of METRO bus stops are only marked with a pole in the ground. Daily METRO …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Jim Johnson and his wife, Lark, knew something was amiss when a family moved into their cul-de-sac seemingly overnight last week. “When they show up and immediately rip down the sign of the leasing company or owner company, it’s like, that raises a concern,” Jim Johnson, who, like most of his neighbors, is an original owner …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Josh Armstrong, the older half-brother to A.J. Armstrong, an empathetic son, who was once passionate about music and devoted to his siblings, lost touch with reality after his parents were murdered on July 29, 2016. That’s what prosecutors tried to convey to the jury on day nine of A.J. Armstrong’s third capital murder trial. During the two years …