HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that he’s deploying the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to Houston to support the Houston Police Department in its efforts to address the rise in road-rage shootings. The announcement comes one day after Houston police chief Art Acevedo held a news conference about the new task force put in place …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A local pediatric cardiologist said hospitals are seeing children with COVID-19 with everything from mild to severe symptoms. Nearly one-and-a-half million children have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, which includes children from 49 states. Nick Parvizian was a typical basketball-loving teen. “I love it a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man has been charged with murder after the body of a 28-year-old Houston woman, who had been strangled, was found in the trunk of his car, authorities say. Police say 35-year-old Victor Campbell Jr. has been charged in the murder of Briana Johnson. He’s being held at the Jefferson County Jail on a $1 million …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The city of Houston is approving more large scale events, including a cheer competition where thousands of families will be traveling to Houston next Friday to compete at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Encore Championships rented out about half of the convention center for the three-day cheerleading competition, according to Houston First. Houston First says …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Patchy fog is possible Thursday morning as moisture levels increase. Temperatures will dip into the 40s as the fog forms, then sunshine breaking through the clouds will warm us up into the upper 70s. By Friday, it’ll be noticeably warmer in the morning as a storm system pushes through the state. Temperatures will only drop to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and COVID-19 vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez says there should be minimal concern regarding allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. “When we vaccinate people, allergic reactions are not uncommon, they do occur. And sometimes even severe reactions, …

LONDON: Criminals are becoming more sophisticated in their use of cryptocurrencies to launder money, with hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty funds last year flowing through digital wallets that allow users to hide their trail, according to Elliptic. At least 13% of all criminal proceeds in bitcoin passed through privacy wallets – which make it harder to track cryptocurrency …

Students and teachers have been taken to the hospital after a lightning strike affects 15 people at a school in Australia’s central Queensland. The affected students aged between 10 and 12 and teachers of Clinton State School were transported to Gladstone Hospital for mild tingling symptoms on Tuesday afternoon, 7news reported. According to Queensland Ambulance Service, the lightning strike hit a nearby …

William Shakespeare from Warwickshire in England was one of the first people to receive the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine outside a clinical trial on Tuesday. The 81-year-old had the injection at University Hospital Coventry on Tuesday, 20 miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon, the birthplace of his namesake, England’s greatest dramatist and poet. Shakespeare’s shot inspired Twitter users, who joked “The Taming of …

LONDON: Britain’s medical regulator will examine all the data from trials of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford and AstraZeneca, including which dosing regimen is best to use, the regulator’s chief executive said on Wednesday. “Our regulatory review is all encompassing. We will look at all available data,” June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency …