A congregation is looking at thousands of dollars’ worth of damage after a car crashed into a church in southeast Houston on Monday. Luckily, no one was injured in the crash. However, the piano, guitar, bass, communion dishes, pulpit and more inside of the New Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church were damaged. Pictures taken by one member show the vehicle …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Winning the NBA title may have been the only thing that would have kept former head coach Mike D’Antoni in Houston. Over the weekend, D’Antoni informed the franchise’s ownership that he’s becoming a free agent and won’t return to the Rockets next season. D’Antoni, whose contract expired with the end of Houston’s season in the Western …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities from the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office are asking for help in finding the suspect who snatched a woman’s purse from her parked car. The incident happened Sept. 11 in the 18000 block of Bayou Mead Trail. When authorities arrived at the scene, an elderly woman reported she had parked in her neighbor’s driveway …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston tenants whose landlords won’t participate in the city’s assistance program will be able to submit information for help by the end of the week. Narrada Lewis is slowly watching his bank account diminish. He’s on unemployment, but the extra $300 dollar weekly benefit has ended. “From all of that, going from here to there, to …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — An 18-year-old woman has been charged with murder after a 20-year-old was shot and killed as she slept in her bed. Emma Presler is currently in the Harris County Jail on an unrelated charge. Presler is expected to appear in court at 7 a.m. Tuesday. According to an update issued by the Harris County Sheriff’s …

WASHINGTON (KTRK) — A post office may soon be renamed in honor of a Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was shot and killed during a traffic stop last year. According to an announcement made by Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, the Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal Post Office Act unanimously passed the full House of Representatives with unanimous support on Monday. The …

HOUSTON (KTRK) — It was Sept. 15, 1959, when an ex-convict, 49-year-old Paul Orgeron, showed up on the campus of Edgar Allen Poe Elementary with his 7-year-old son and a suitcase packed with dynamite. He was angry that he couldn’t enroll his son in school because he didn’t have the proper paperwork. Orgeron handed a teacher a note and then …

HOUSTON, Texas — When Maria “Ninfa” Laurenzo first opened a taco shop in Houston’s East End neighborhood in 1973, she was a widow with five children and her tortilla factory was failing. It started as a side business to earn some extra cash, but she never imagined it would become a Tex-Mex culinary empire. “Mama Ninfa,” as she became known, …

cga HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — and Community Family Centers invite you to be a couch potato this Sunday and watch the 2020 Emmy Awards for a good cause. This year, Community Family Centers’ annual gala is going virtual and you can help your neighbors in need of food, job assistance and access to educational resources from the best seat in the house… your …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Temperatures Tuesday will start in the mid 70s then warm into the mid 90s. Once temperatures get above 90 in the afternoon, isolated thunderstorms could pop up. Any storm that pops up could be briefly heavy, produce cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, and cause the wind to gust up over 40 mph. Rain chances will increase slightly Wednesday …