HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Fifty years ago today, a Houston disc jockey climbed the Astroneedle at Astroworld and stayed there for ten days to bring POW’s home from Vietnam. It’s another great piece of local history we found in our film archives. On January 23, 1971, KNUZ radio DJ Larry Vance climbed 31 stories to the top of the Astro-needle …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man was shot to death Friday during a brawl among teenagers near Humble, authorities said. It happened around 6:30 p.m. in the Timber Hills community on Spring Brook Pass Drive. The victim had taken his daughter to fight other teens in the community when adults joined in the brawl, Harris County sheriff’s deputies said. …

The internet was abuzz about the mysterious interruption to the site as users reported their timelines froze and they were forced to sign back in. It began around 9:30 p.m., according to downdetector.com, a website and application monitoring service. By 1 a.m. Saturday, it appeared that the issue had been resolved. “We’re looking into reports that some people are currently having …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Dense Fog Advisory until 6 pm Sunday for the Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island, and the Bolivar Peninsula…Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog. Sunday will bring another round of morning fog, cloudy skies, and scattered showers… but changes are coming next week as a cold front moves through Monday. A warm front is expected …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Mayor Sylvester Turner gave an update on the supply of the COVID-19 vaccine Saturday afternoon at the Bayou City Event Center as the demand for the vaccine remains high. Hundreds of people were sent home disappointed after the Houston Health Department announced it ran out of COVID-19 vaccine doses at the public mega site at Minute …

Neighbors on Houston’s northside are thanking an Amazon delivery driver for helping to find a baby that was abandoned after an apparent carjacking. Police said they responded to a stolen car and kidnapping in the 300 block of Sunnyside on Monday. Around the same time, a home surveillance camera captured a man leave a baby in a newborn carrier on …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — In Texas, people who can currently get a COVID-19 vaccine fall under the state’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution Phase 1A or Phase 1B criteria. Pregnant women are considered part of Phase 1B, but many have questions about whether it’s safe for their unborn baby. A Houston city council member who is also pregnant decided to get the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Just three weeks into 2021, at least 10 teenagers in the Houston area have lost their lives because of gun violence. That’s the highest number over that time period in the past five years. But what’s alarming about these crime statistics is that the problem isn’t prevalent just in Houston. “The number of teens, not just …

ROME: The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users in Italy whose age it could not verify following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the Chinese-owned app. In a statement, the regulator said that although TikTok had committed to ban registration for children aged under 13, …