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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Practices upon practices in the spring and summer have led to Thursday night and the first set of high school football games to open the 2022 season. Game of the Week pitted two of the area’s top six programs, one of which is defending the Texas 6A-D1 state championship. North Shore embarrasses The Woodlands North Shore QB …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The Harris County Jail is reporting its first case of monkeypox. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Twitter that an inmate who arrived on Aug. 15 was placed in quarantine, which is a standard COVID-19 protocol for the jail. We have the first confirmed positive case of monkeypox virus in the Harris County jail. The male inmate …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 17-year-old was shot in the knee by a man who committed a robbery just seconds before in the Greenspoint area early Thursday morning, Houston police said. The shooting happened at about 12:30 a.m. at an apartment complex on 355 Benmar Drive. The first victim, Ehulices Aparicio, was parking when he noticed a suspicious vehicle. As Aparicio …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two teenage MS-13 gang members charged with capital murder of a woman who was kidnapped while returning home from work are being held behind bars on a $1 million bond. Jordan Montalvo, 18, and Carlos Romero Munoz, 17, refused to appear in probable court overnight but appeared in Judge Ana Martinez’s district courtroom Thursday. They are charged …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It has been five years since Hurricane Harvey made landfall, and many residents in Kingwood are still recovering. The area alone got about 40 inches of rain in 2017 when the storm hit and was battered with flooding rain from Tropical Storm Imelda two years later. “I don’t think that people who were not touched can understand the grief …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston taco truck owner wants to find the armed robber who terrorized his employee and may be responsible for more robberies. Rolando Hernandez shared surveillance video of the robbery at his taco truck, El De La Barbacoa, on the North Freeway and W. Gulf Bank, last week. He said it happened on Aug. 18, just after …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston mother is becoming more frustrated by the day after her son was found dead in a ditch in July. Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Adamson’s body was found on Tuesday, July 19, in a ditch on Brae Acres Road. Houston police said the body was wrapped in a black blanket and duct taped in a red sheet. “He …

ROSHARON, Texas (KTRK) — The search for Robert Wayne White, the security guard who disappeared nearly two weeks ago while clocked into work, came to an unfortunate end on Thursday. Family members told ABC13 that his body was found inside a vehicle submerged in a lake just off County Road 59 in Rosharon. The family elaborated that law enforcement officials reached …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman found dead at a 24-Hour Fitness parking garage in Rice Village has been identified as the women’s basketball director of operations at the University of Houston, according to a post from the university. On Tuesday, Houston Police Department responded to the parking lot at the 2500 block of Dunstan Road at about 10:35 a.m. after …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Our wet and unsettled weather pattern continues through next week. While rain today won’t be widespread, there will still be pockets of heavy rain and storms that could lead to isolated street flooding concerns, especially south of I-10 where the moisture level will be the highest. High temperatures should range in the upper 80s to the low …