WASHINGTON — Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler has been fined $5,000 for bypassing metal detectors at the U.S. House, becoming one of first two GOP resisters punished under a rule enacted after the Capitol riot. Lawmakers who bypass the metal detectors face a $5,000 fine for a first offense and $10,000 for each offense after that. If lawmakers don’t pay …

An 11-year-old boy was wounded early Friday in a drive-by shooting in South Dallas. Police were called just after 12:30 a.m. to the 3200 block of Carpenter Avenue, near South Second Avenue, where multiple houses had been struck by gunfire. The boy, whose name was not released, was asleep in a front bedroom and was hit in the foot. He …

HOUSTON, Texas — The good news is that Texas is finally seeing COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases trend downward after a holiday season marked by a record-breaking surge that pushed hospital systems and health care workers to their limits. The bad news is that there are still more Texans getting sick and being hospitalized for the coronavirus than this summer, when the state …

A 42-year-old man sent to prison for his role in a 1994 slaying was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting last month in southeast Oak Cliff. Donny Ray Geter faces a murder charge in the death of Joseph Kemp. He was booked into the Dallas County jail Thursday night. Dallas police were called about 8:20 p.m. Jan. 5 to the scene …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble under …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Is there a chance for snow in Texas next week? Yes, but it’s too soon to say for certain where it will fall. A huge mass of Arctic air will invade the country and make it all the way to the Gulf coast by Valentine’s Day weekend. Moisture coming in from the west will mix with that …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A cold front will bring back the sunshine this weekend, but a more powerful cold front next week could bring us the harshest freeze of the winter. Expect the sky to remain cloudy with temperatures hovering in the mid-to-upper 40s through most of Saturday morning. A stray shower cannot be ruled out as long as the …

She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in 1967, but by the time she died nearly 40 years later, Anna Nicole Smith would captivate a country. “I think [we] underestimated the star power, and the stir it would create,” said Houston attorney Rusty Hardin. “She was quite a story.” Hardin met Smith because he represented her late husband J Howard Marshall’s …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Members of the Sikh community in Houston are speaking out as tens of thousands of farmers have been hunkering down in India to protest new agricultural laws they say will leave them poorer and at the mercy of corporations. The protests have been happening for months and it is being dubbed the “world’s largest peaceful protest” …

es As more rounds of COVID-19 vaccine doses make their way to the Houston area, local county leaders and health officials are working to implement the best plans possible for distribution. Here’s a county-by-county vaccine distribution breakdown. Brazoria County Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 All appointment slots are currently full with the Community Health Network, Pearland Vaccination Pod and the Brazoria …