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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Friday marked the last day to vote early, and the polls have officially closed until Election Day. Data from the Secretary of State’s office doesn’t reveal how people voted in the midterm run-up, but it details who turned out. Turnout across the Greater Houston area is down when compared to what it was at this same …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It has been one year since Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, where 10 people were crushed to death by a crowd surge at NRG Park, and little has changed with no update on the criminal investigation. On Nov. 5, 2021, a crowd of roughly 50,000 people packed tightly into the sold-out festival. Horrifying cell phone footage showed unconscious …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are looking into high school students getting extorted with their own nude photos. The police chief says the suspect will become Snapchat friends with the students, ask to swap nude pictures, and then threaten to send those pictures to family and friends if money is not paid. Police are sending this warning out to parents, telling …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are looking into high school students getting extorted with their own nude photos. The police chief says the suspect will become Snapchat friends with the students, ask to swap nude pictures, and then threaten to send those pictures to family and friends if money is not paid. Police are sending this warning out to parents, telling …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — After a busy night with a storm line racing through Texas, we get to enjoy some quiet and cooler weather on our Saturday. The same front that brought us some gusty winds and a line of rain across southeast Texas had much more significant impacts in northeast Texas. A tornado outbreak across parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — With two full days of early voting left, ABC13 worked to find out how the process has been going and what, if any, issues voters may be facing. According to the Harris County Elections Administrator’s office, one thing they want people to realize is that the ballot is substantial and that it may take them a bit …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Harris County Precinct 5 deputy constable is under investigation after a burglary victim’s MacBook Pro ended up in his home. Deputy Celso Castillo is still on the force, but he is not doing street patrol, according to Constable Ted Heap’s office. The saga began Oct. 28. Nathan Kilcourse, pulled into his Westbury home from work at …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Barry Barnes, a former city of Houston employee, pleaded guilty to bribery after admitting his part in a kickback scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the scheme started in November 2019 and until March 2021, during which Barnes collected several cash payments while working for the Houston Health Department. Barnes was working as an administrative and …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A line of severe thunderstorms could race through Southeast Texas late Friday as a powerful Pacific storm moves into the Plains. Winds Friday will increase as the storm system moves out of the Rockies, and this will keep our low temperatures nearly 20 degrees warmer than average. Instead of morning temperatures in the mid 50s, they’ll be …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — After a court hearing Thursday afternoon, the jury announced the bond charges set in the case of a Cypress mother who is accused of abusing her twin teenagers. Zaikiya Duncan, 40, was arrested in October in Baton Rouge. Authorities say Duncan and her 27-year-old boyfriend, Jova Terrell, abused the two 15-year-olds. The state says Duncan was renting a $400,000 house …