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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — On Thursday, county officials announced plans to reduce overcrowding at the Harris County Jail. This comes after a record of 27 inmates died in custody in 2022, and four have died so far in 2023. The Investigates team has been covering this issue for more than a year, with Pooja Lodhia as the only Houston reporter …

So much for two seasons of UT vs. UH. The Big 12 announced on Thursday that it was reached an agreement with SEC-bound University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma, allowing them to depart a year earlier from the conference they’ve held membership with since 1996. UT and OU were previously slated to leave on June 30, 2025, but the deal …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A single mother from Humble is struggling to afford bills after her family was hit and injured in an accident. The impact of an accident in northeast Harris County continues to hurt the Humble family. “The car was so bad that none of us should have made it,” Kimberly Orr-Gordwin said. Orr-Gordwin was with her children …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two Houston-area women are trying to figure out their next move after recently learning the nursing diplomas they’ve been working towards are bogus. Twenty-five people, including four from Harris County, have been charged for their alleged part in a scheme that created an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses. “We had classes. We did our …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police have launched an investigation into the death of a man after they say his body was found near a ditch in northeast Houston. The man was found in the 3900 block of Love Street at about 7:05 a.m. on Thursday, according to the Houston Police Department. Police said they responded to a call of a person …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A special education teacher has been charged with injury to a child after Houston police said he broke a 10-year-old student’s arm at school. George Jimerson, 70, told police he was trained in Crisis Intervention Prevention and was trying to stop a student from hurting him and others as the 10-year-old reached for a plastic bag, according …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Prosecutors are expected to backtrack to the location where an SUV driver was drinking before getting behind the wheel and later slamming into a working forklift, killing two passengers on Thursday night. Houston Police Department responded to the wreck in an industrial area on Bellfort Avenue near Highway 288 at about 6:30 p.m. An Eyewitness News camera …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Two suspects are facing felony charges after 25 kilograms of meth were seized in east Harris County on Thursday, officials said. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the drugs were confiscated in the Cloverleaf area. Authorities said DPS agents with the Methamphetamine Initiative Group intercepted the drugs before they were about to be distributed. …

WASHINGTON — At least two Texas Republicans shouted at President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address, offering loud, real-time rebuttals to his claims about GOP intentions on Social Security. Reps. Beth Van Duyne of Irving and Troy Nehls of Sugar Land weren’t bragging Wednesday about their outbursts the night before. Nor did they issue the sort of public …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The executive director of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game was almost sold on Houston as a host for the 2024 game. Then, Bill Hancock heard about the thousands of volunteers that power the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo every year. “We were so impressed by the number of people who work every year for the …