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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The University of Houston is establishing a new institute focused on clean energy, and it’s all thanks to a donation from Shell. UH announced on Monday that it has created the Energy Transition Institute after receiving a $10 million gift from oil giant Shell. The institute is focused on the production and use of reliable, affordable …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A single-vehicle crash led to multiple gravesites being destroyed at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home on Saturday evening, police said. Houston police responded to a crash at the 6800 block of Lawndale at about 7 p.m. Upon arrival, suspects fled the scene despite there being multiple witnesses and video, police said. One witness told that the …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — On Tuesday, Harris County commissioners are expected to discuss newly released search warrants into allegations of misuse of official information by senior staffers at County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s office regarding how a nearly $11 million COVID-19 outreach contract was awarded. It’s the first public meeting since search warrants that became public on Friday detail allegations …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Residents across several Houston neighborhoods reported receiving racist flyers in their front yards over the weekend. The hate-filled messages prompted an investigation by the Houston Police Department. Surveillance video obtained by Eyewitness News shows someone in a pickup truck throwing out the packages in the overnight hours. Mark Toubin is with the Anti-Defamation League, a civil …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A day after her 17-year-old son was shot and killed outside a birthday party, his devastated mother spoke out. “That was my baby. My world, I give him the whole world,” Desiree Stewart spoke through her tears. “They took something I could never get back.” Her son, Robert “Duke” Lee, was among a group of teens …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The mother of a 4-year-old boy mauled to death by a pack of Pit Bulls in February speaks out for the first time. Daijah McClay said her son, Drué Parker, stayed with her aunt in Baytown for the night. He was supposed to come home that afternoon before she got the phone call that would change her life. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court appeared before Senate Judiciary Committee members on Monday. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces four days of high-profile confirmation hearings from the committee’s 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats. Many African-Americans are beaming with pride over this historic event, including students at Texas Southern University. TSU students at …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A person believed to be around 17 years old was shot and killed early Sunday morning in the Denver Harbor area, according to police. Police said the shooting victim was talking to someone inside a pickup truck at about 1 a.m. on Woolworth near Market. The victim and man in the truck spoke for about five …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A single-vehicle crash led to multiple gravesites being destroyed at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home on Saturday evening, police said. Houston police responded to a crash at the 6800 block of Lawndale at about 7 p.m. Upon arrival, suspects fled the scene despite there being multiple witnesses and video, police said. One witness told that the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Nearly four years after being arrested, a former Harris County deputy pleads guilty for possession of child pornography on Friday. On March 29, 2018 Donald Dehnert faced three felony charges of possession of child pornography. The 50-year-old appeared before a judge on Friday morning where he pleaded guilty to those charges. Prosecutors say Dehnert admitted to …