HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As Mariam Ramirez and her family try to salvage what’s left of their Parker Road home, she says she’s just thankful her family got out in time. Mariam, her husband Salvador, and their two young children, 3-year-old Noel, and 2-year-old Catalina, were asleep when the fire started. Mariam said a good Samaritan driving by saw the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Patchy frost is possible again Friday morning with a clear sky, light winds, and dry air in place. Most Houston-area neighborhoods will dip into the mid-30s, then warm into the mid-60s. While the day starts sunny, an approaching warm front will bring back clouds during the afternoon and a chance of showers Friday evening. Rain chances …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The last time the Houston Rockets hosted fans for a game at Toyota Center was on March 10. Since then, the team experienced a midseason hiatus, a season resuming inside a bubble at Walt Disney World and leadership changes, with a James Harden trade potentially looming soon. But after going so long without Red Nation cheering …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Dr. Joseph Petrosino with the Baylor College of Medicine said since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been dozens of companies that have launched new COVID-19 testing kits through FDA’s emergency use authorization. “They’ve ranged everywhere from laboratory tests, where you are sampled by a health care clinician, to some that you sample yourself and …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Thousands of doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in Houston this week. Although health care workers are the first to get the vaccine, will other Texans want the vaccine once it’s their turn? “The biggest takeaway for me is good news, and that is that the hesitancy has declined since September,” President and CEO of Episcopal …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Every player of the University of Houston’s men’s basketball team has tested positive for COVID-19 at some point since the program started in the summer, according to the team’s coach. Head coach Kelvin Sampson announced the news Thursday during a media briefing.This week, only six players have been cleared for practice. The team hopes to have eight or …

HOUSTON Texas (KTRK) — A woman was shot at a gas station in north Houston, police say. It happened in the 1300 block of Crosstimbers near the North Freeway Thursday night.   The Houston Police Department said two groups of people in two separate cars got into some sort of altercation. That’s when gunfire was exchanged. A man drove the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Three Houston sisters will be among the 3,700 graduates getting their degree from the University of Houston-Downtown on Dec. 19, and they say their story is a testament to resiliency and teamwork. The Lampkin sisters range in age from 36 to 50, and all of them started college years ago. But they have had to juggle …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — When school started this fall, Ana Troya got a list of 105 Alief Independent School District students who hadn’t showed up to Bush Elementary School. She spent day after day driving around town trying to track down those students, each one of them worth about $5,500 in state funding for the district. “We found a lot …