HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston family is turning to the north side community for answers after an 89-year-old was hit and killed by a driver and was then left alone on the side of a road. Alejandro Campos, who was lovingly known as “Polly,” was a native Houstonian and was active for his age, according to his family. Police …

For more than a year, we’ve been following the plight of people in Houston’s Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhood. A 2019 state report showed the city’s first cancer cluster that many believe is the result of creosote contamination from a nearby railyard. This week, the state came back with another report saying they found higher than normal leukemia rates …

DURBAN: South Africa women’s team narrowly beat Pakistan women by just three runs in the first of the three One-day Internationals at the Kingsmead Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. This was Pakistan women team’s first appearance in international cricket after a gap of 10 months. Chasing 201 to win, the tourists fell just three runs short at 197 for eight in …

DHAKA: Shakib Al Hasan claimed four wickets for eight runs in his international comeback to set up an easy six-wicket victory for Bangladesh over the depleted West Indies in the first One-day International in Dhaka on Wednesday. Debutant pacer Hasan Mahmud also impressed with the ball, picking up 3-28 as the hosts bowled out the weakened tourists for 122 before …

LAHORE: Former captain Mohammad Hafeez on Wednesday came in support of the current Pakistan team management which is under heavy criticism from many quarters in the wake of national team’s disastrous performance on their recently-concluded tour of New Zealand. “My [individual] performance during the past one year improved mainly due to the effort of the national team’s current coaching staff, …

TO be gobsmacked at what the Indian touring team to Australia has managed to achieve in the end is a lot milder expression. In fact, to be truthful, they having won the series 2-1 after being shot out for a humiliating 36 in the first Test at Adelaide have once again showed us that where there is a will there …

ISLAMABAD: The Right of Way (ROW) Policy for the telecom sector — recently approved by the federal cabinet — clears a large number of hurdles faced by telcos and internet service providers in the installation and maintenance of their telecommunication equipment and expansion of systems across the country. The policy was approved in a cabinet meeting held on Tuesday. A …

KARACHI: Younis Khan was vocal in saying on Wednesday he would have faced the PCB Cricket Committee, which grilled head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis in the wake of a disastrous tour of New Zealand. Talking to reporters during a virtual media conference here, national batting coach Younis — now in his third series after being hired for …

ISLAMABAD: Amid rising prices, the government on Wednesday decided to allow tax- and duty-free import of 800,000 tonnes of sugar and 300,000 tonnes of wheat to beef up buffer stocks. The decisions were taken at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet presided over by Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Shaikh. The ECC allowed tax- and duty-free …