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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston ISD’s new leaders faced heckling and harsh comments when they held their first school board meeting on Thursday evening. The room was packed with parents, teachers, and advocates for public education. They were, at times, loud enough to drown out the appointed managers who pushed through the agenda, then left as the audience booed. The speakers …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Strong to severe storms pushed through parts of SE Texas Thursday evening bringing damaging winds and large hail. Now that the storms have moved out, we will be looking at pretty dry conditions Friday. We should start off mostly clear with temperatures in the upper 60s/low 70s. Friday will warm into the low 90s under partly cloudy …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman is charged after police say she breached a security fence around Bush Airport and made it onto a runway Tuesday night. Airport officials said 22-year-old Ivori H. Howard was spotted at about 8:30 p.m. near runway 15L – causing it to shut down immediately. Dispatchers described the events to the Houston Police Department as the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The City of Houston’s $6.2 billion budget for the fiscal year 2024 has been approved following hours of discussion at city council Monday morning. The final vote was 15-2, with Michael Kubosh and Mike Knox being the only council members who voted against Mayor Sylvester Turner’s final budget. One of Wednesday morning’s accepted amendments to the originally-proposed budget led …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Principals and teachers in the Houston Independent School District will soon be paid partially based on school performance. The new salary system could have some principals making more than $200,000 a year. “We can have an evaluation system, and we can stop and have the regular compensation like we always did,” new superintendent Mike Miles said, “But, …

HEDWIG VILLAGE, Texas (KTRK) — A man has been charged with theft after allegedly trying to buy watches stolen from Jose Altuve’s Hedwig Village home on Opening Day for the Houston Astros. Court documents show 35-year-old Edwin Boulous is the fifth person charged in connection to the March 30 heist resulting in the swiping of seven watches. During probable cause court, it was revealed …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Residents of a South Acres apartment complex now have air conditioning in their apartments after about a month in the heat. Sandra Collins reached out to Action 13 last week saying that she and her neighbors at the Villas at Sandrock Apartments in the 12000 block of Martin Luther King Drive had been struggling without air conditioning. …

AUSTIN, Texas — Tony Buzbee, the prominent and boisterous Houston attorney representing suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, went on the offensive on Wednesday, alleging his client was the victim of a “kangaroo court” and promising a long and vigorous fight against impeachment. “Ken Paxton will never be convicted by the Senate,” Buzbee said at a Wednesday press conference, one day after …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An 11-year-old girl was hit in the buttocks when a gun discovered by a neighbor at a Fifth Ward apartment complex went off and went through a wall, police said. The child was rushed to the hospital, where she’s stable. The Houston Police Department said Northeast Patrol officers responded at about 9 p.m. to the 3000 block …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A north Houston man was followed from a bank for more than 30 minutes to four different locations, and his in-car cameras caught every second of it. Cameron, who requested that not use his last name for his safety, shared the video, which captured one crook’s face and showed just how patient these criminals can be. “They …