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Brittany Jones walked into a Dallas County courtroom Wednesday afternoon, standing tall and wearing a sharp brown suit, hoping she’d beat the odds stacked against her. When the judge ruled in favor of the Hillcrest Apartments tenant, she shook with sobs, crying into a friend’s embrace. Jones won $5,000 in damages from a company that used to own her apartment building, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Officers are getting 10.5% raise, spread out over three years, starting in July. But also part of the new deal is an effort to make police more accountable when they make mistakes. The vote was unanimous among city council members. The new deal for Houston police comes after four months of negotiations between its union leadership …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The family of a teen shot and killed while driving on the North Loop is speaking for the first time since the tragic incident. Joseph Jimenez, 13, known by his loved ones as “Jojo,” was shot and killed in what the family calls a road rage incident. Houston police confirmed to the shooting happened in the …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities are looking for three men who tried to rob an armored truck and ended up in a shootout. It happened Wednesday afternoon at the 800 block of FM 1960 at the Comerica Bank in north Harris County. “I was so scared,” said Maria Torres, who was in the Starbucks parking lot next door with …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards is joining the race to succeed Sylvester Turner as mayor. The former at-large district four council member, who served from 2016 to 2020, says she’s an original millennial who can be a bridge between our past and future. “We need big thinkers. We need big dreamers, but people who …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A former HISD elementary school teacher accepted a plea agreement Wednesday for molesting one of his 5-year-old students. Saul Flores, 38, was given a 10-year deferred sentence, meaning he will be on probation for the next decade. He will also have to register as a sex offender for life. “The judge told him, ‘You don’t get …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The afternoon of March 3 should have been uneventful for a Cricket Wireless employee in northwest Harris County, but it quickly turned chaotic. “I got everybody into the back and protected them,” recalled Cricket employee Chris Rodriguez. What he protected people from was a deadly shooting captured by his store’s surveillance system. In the footage, a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Curious about that little red light in the sky? You’re not the only one. Several viewers reached out Wednesday night about the mysterious red light in the sky. We’ve heard from people in Pearland, League City, Deer Park and Missouri City. All wondering what it could be. we don’t have a definite confirmation – all signs …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police have taken at least two reports of break-ins at a luxury apartment building near River Oaks. The crimes happened on the evening of Saturday, March 19 at the Arrive apartments at Kirby and Westheimer. A victim who spoke with said her door was kicked in. “All of the wood here was completely cracked,” she …

The University of Houston men’s basketball team is winning a lot of games in March Madness, and that’s nothing new. But one change during the 2022 NCAA men’s basketball tournament is one many members of  audience may have noticed while watching the Coogs on TV: the basketballs. For the first time ever in the NCAA Tournament, games are played with …