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HOUSTON, Texas — Free agent wing Dillon Brooks has agreed on a four-year, $80 million contract with the Houston Rockets, his agent, Mike George of One Legacy Sports, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. The deal will be descending in annual salary, sources told Wojnarowski. The Rockets also agreed to a four-year, $32 million deal with free agent center Jock Landale, sources told Wojnarowski. Only …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A local handyman says he is lucky to be alive after he was brutally attacked, robbed, and even shot at while working in northwest Houston Thursday. Now, he says he is not sure how he will continue to make a living. “I’m with nothing,” Magdaleno Soto Mondragon explained in Spanish. A handyman of more than 30 years, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The July 4th holiday weekend is here, and while it starts hot and dry, rain chances return and climb even higher after Independence Day. So the Heat Advisory has not been extended for Sunday, potentially ending this 19 day heat wave for southeast Texas. Doesn’t mean it won’t be a steamy Sunday with morning lows only starting …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A violent afternoon unfolded in Houston’s Westchase neighborhood on Saturday following two shootings at apartment complexes just minutes apart. The Houston Police Department said two people are dead, and multiple people are in custody. The first shooting reportedly happened at about 4:30 p.m. at an apartment complex off Richmond Avenue near Breezewood Drive. According to HPD, the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An Apple AirTag and METRO Houston’s comprehensive lost and found procedures are helping police solve a puzzling crime: Who stole a woman’s purse in the security screening line at Bush Intercontinental Airport? About 10 days ago, nurse June Ozoa dropped off three fellow nurses at the airport after the group held a mini-reunion in Houston. As the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Those big cylindrical pieces of equipment attached near power lines on polls, called transformers, are now the latest victim of the supply chain. According to the American Public Power Association, a 2018 survey showed it would take a couple of weeks to get a new transformer where it needed to go. Their latest survey shows that wait …

CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) — Child Protective Services says it’s investigating an incident at a day care after a toddler lost the tip of her finger from a closing door. It happened on June 2 at the Early Learning Center 2, operated by Cy-Fair ISD. The child, 15-month-old Madilyn, has her entire right arm in a cast after the tip of her …

HOUSTON, Texas — Free agent guard Fred VanVleet has agreed on a three-year, $130 million contract with the Houston Rockets, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul and agent Erika Ruiz told ESPN’s, Adrian Wojnarowski. VanVleet turned down a $22.8 million player option with the Toronto Raptors for next season after averaging 19.3 points, 7.2 assists, and 1.8 steals, continuing a strong run …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — He’s a baller turned broker. Former University of Houston men’s basketball player Landon Goesling is now the director of sales and development for Linking Coogs, a collective facilitating endorsement opportunities for UH student-athletes. “We’ve done eight different team-wide deals at the University of Houston – both men’s and women’s sports,” Landon explained to . Goesling says those deals …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Twenty-eight years after a little girl was abducted by her father and raised secretly in Mexico, a new state law is named in her honor. Bianca’s Law was passed this session to expand prosecution against parents who break child custody orders and take children out of Texas. “Amazing and awesome and exciting,” Deana Herbet, the mother behind …