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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 …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Ever since Yordan Alvarez’s contract extension was reported last Friday, all the Astros’ slugger has done is crush baseballs. General Manager James Click and Alvarez were front and center for a news conference Monday to announce the designated hitter’s six-year deal. During the same event, the club revealed that Alvarez was also named American League Player of the …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man wanted in Harris County for allegedly shooting his ex-wife to death took his own life when U.S. Marshals caught up with him in Dallas. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted the development about Lorenzo White on Monday afternoon, hours after the sheriff said the fugitive broke into his former wife’s home and shot her to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police were already in the southeast Houston area responding to a disturbance call on Monday morning when they said they heard shots being fired. The shots were heard at about 12:18 a.m. in the 4500 block of Idaho St. and Cullen Blvd. Upon arrival, officers with the Houston Police Department saw a white 2000 model Ford …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Dozens of residents in a northwest Harris County neighborhood woke up to racist flyers with swastikas and white supremacist slogans thrown throughout their neighborhood overnight. “It’s scary because I am Hispanic,” Rita Sanchez said. “It’s prejudice towards me and my grandchildren. They aren’t just white.” The racist flyers, containing different messages, were put in Ziploc …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Milby High School student’s body was pulled from Brays Bayou on Monday afternoon several hours after the vehicle she was in plunged off a bridge in east Houston. The victim was one of three teens who were occupants of the vehicle that authorities say lost control, took out a guardrail, and went off a bridge …