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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Seven years and two days after Antonio Sr. and Dawn Armstrong were found shot to death in their southwest Houston home, their son, A.J. Armstrong, now 23, will face his third capital murder trial, charged with killing them. The jury was picked two months ago, after three weeks of an intense, one-on-one interview process. Multiple sources close to the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The search continues for the suspect wanted in a deadly domestic violence stabbing that happened Saturday night at New Hope Housing in northeast Houston. At about 7:10 p.m., Houston police responded to reports of a woman pleading for help from an apartment in a low-income housing complex at 2424 Sakowitz Street. When they arrived, they found a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A recent study shows a growing rental crisis in Harris County that a family of seven knows too well. Shatrice Brown and Steven Ragas’ world is about to get a little bigger. The pair have five kids, range in age from 2 to 12 years old, and in any day, that will grow by one. Brown is …

An hour after football practice, Rue McNiel collapsed. The 18-year-old had been preparing for the Guthrie Common School District Jaguars’ 2020 season. The high broke 100 degrees that day, Aug. 13. When McNiel fell over during a post-practice huddle, he was rushed to the hospital — where he later died from exertional heatstroke symptoms. Heatstroke is the leading cause of preventable death in high school …

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) — A 19-year-old was driving two others to a house party and searching for parking nearby when their car was shot at nearly a dozen times, according to deputies. According to Harris County Pct. 4 Constable’s Office, they received multiple disturbance calls about a party on Sugar Valley Drive on July 28. When they were there, a driver …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Matthew and Jennifer Austin have rented a home in Canyon Village at Cypress Hills in northwest Harris County for a year but said they’re being evicted as a result of actions from Municipal Utility District 157. “I had planned on living here a couple of years until we were able to buy a house,” Matthew Austin said …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — For a second year in a row, this July will end up being one of the warmest on record in Houston. Without including the temperature data from July 31, the average temperature experienced this month was 87.7 degrees and ranked as the second warmest on record for the month of July in Houston. In fact, it’s just …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Mayor Sylvester Turner made it very clear Monday that he is not happy with Houston ISD’s plan to turn campus libraries into “team centers” or “discipline centers.” “I don’t want HISD schools to look like prisons,” Turner said. Standing with the mayor were some city council members, state leaders, and local pastors, all denouncing the state-appointed HISD …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One person is dead after a fight inside a Midtown convenience store, which has been known as a crime hotspot in the city. The Houston Police Department received a shooting call in the 2000 block of Fannin Street at 2:20 p.m. Police were told that someone shot into the Sunoco store, hitting one person and grazing another …

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) — A 19-year-old was driving two others to a house party and searching for parking nearby when their car was shot at nearly a dozen times, according to deputies. According to Harris County Pct. 4 Constable’s Office, they received multiple disturbance calls about a party on Sugar Valley Drive on July 28. When they were there, a driver …