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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Hundreds of defense lawyers and accused criminals are being told this afternoon a DNA analyst in their case may not be able to be trusted. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office is notifying about 438 defendants that their criminal cases need to be re-examined due a DNA analyst who gave false and/or misleading testimony in …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police are investigating just what happened at an apartment in southeast Houston where two people were found dead. Just before noon Tuesday, detectives were called to an apartment in the 5100 block of Silver Creek Drive near Highway 3. The preliminary information from the scene was that a man and a woman were found dead, in …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houstonians gathered outside the Toyota Center Monday to call for the release of Houston native and WNBA star Brittney Griner. Since Feb. 17, the WNBA star has been detained in Russia after officials stopped her while going through airport security for allegedly having hashish oil in her luggage. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee hosted the rally with …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman is dead after being shot in the head at an apartment complex in north Houston, HPD told ABC13 on Tuesday morning. According to police, first responders were called at about 10:45 a.m. to apartments in the 400 block of Greens Road near the North Freeway. Officials said in an update at the scene that …

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson booked massage appointments with at least 66 different women over 17 months, from fall 2019 through spring 2021. The list of 66 includes the 24 women who have filed lawsuits against Watson, including two in the last week; a woman who sued Watson, but then withdrew the complaint; two women who filed …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police have investigators at multiple scenes on the city’s southeast side, including a fire station where a man was driven to and died after a shooting Tuesday. The police department tweeted details at about 5:15 p.m. of the shooting scene in the 4900 block of Doolittle, which is located just off the South I-610 Loop, …

HOUSTON, Texas — Houston Astros reliever Hector Neris was issued a four-game suspension Tuesday for intentionally throwing behind Seattle Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suarez‘s head Monday after both teams had been warned following a benches-clearing skirmish. Astros manager Dusty Baker was suspended one game by Major League Baseball for Neris’ actions, and both were fined an undisclosed amount. Mariners manager Scott Servais and Astros coaches Joe Espada, …

MISSOURI CITY, Texas (KTRK) — A little girl is safe and sound after a frantic search for her on Tuesday afternoon. Emerie Mitchell, age 5, was reported missing from a home on Lost Quail Drive in the Missouri City area in the early afternoon hours. Relatives said she told her grandmother she was leaving and walked out. When the grandmother …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Here comes the triple-digit heat! Houston’s high hit 96 Tuesday for the first time this year, and that’s going to be the coolest high temperature for the rest of the week. Temperatures Wednesday morning will barely dip below 80. After the morning clouds thin out temperatures will make a sprint toward 97. How hot will it …

HOUSTON, Texas — Few musical phenomenons are hotter than K-pop – witness the fervor and pull of acts such as BTS, which just visited the White House, or Seventeen, which is headed to Houston in August. Now, fans can get their K-pop on at the return of a hot summer festival, dubbed the 2022 Summer Seoul Music Festival. The day-long …