Sophomore Naena Luna knows how hard it is to navigate the complicated college admissions process coming from a rural Texas community with few resources. Luna, who now attends Coastal Bend College virtually, didn’t want COVID-19 to trip up other students from her hometown of Charlotte, where she often saw classmates give up in frustration. So she mentors high school students …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The driver and passenger of a Chevrolet Tahoe took off overnight after a Nissan Sentra slammed into the back of the SUV on the Gulf Freeway, killing the Nissan’s passenger, police said. It happened on the freeway near Monroe around midnight. The Tahoe was in the outside northbound lane of the freeway when the Nissan ran …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A family of seven is safe after neighbors rescued them early Sunday from a southeast Houston burning home. It happened around 1 a.m. on Sagedowne Lane. The neighbors broke out windows in the home and pulled the residents out as flames consumed the structure, according to the Houston Fire Department. “We were able to get here …

ABU DHABI: Skipper Sean Williams scored a pugnacious hundred and all-rounder Donald Tiripano hit a maiden half century to delay Afghanistan’s victory on the fourth day of the second Test in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Williams was 106 not out for his fourth Test hundred — third as captain and third in successive Tests — and Tiripano was on an …

LONDON: Chelsea missed a chance to cement their place in the Premier League’s top four as Leeds held them to a frustrating 0-0 draw on Saturday. Thomas Tuchel’s side had plenty of chances but couldn’t deliver the knockout blow in a hard-fought clash at Elland Road. The Blues remain in fourth place and fifth-placed West Ham United are just three …

AHMEDABAD: Spinner Adil Rashid on Saturday said he is ready to open the bowling again after England’s big Twenty20 International win against India, but brushed aside talk of a Test return. Rashid dismissed India skipper Virat Kohli for a duck on Friday after being given the new ball as England thrashed India by eight wickets in the first of the …

KARACHI: The dramatic decline in stock prices in the first four days of the outgoing week was astonishing. The KSE-100 index plunged by 2,049 points, or 4.5 per cent, to settle at 43,788 points at the end of the week. A relief rally on Friday recovered 1,008 points, though it could not wipe off the blemish of the worst weekly …

LAHORE: Cricketers and some club organisers including former Test cricketer Shafqat Rana and Azhar Zaidi have expressed their reservations over the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) plan of increasing the expenditure budget of the clubs organisers under its new constitution of 2019. Shafqat in his earlier statement had said that he would close down his club in protest against PCB’s new …

KARACHI: With his team 3-0 up with more than half an hour left to play against Mohsen Gilani FC and a winning result in no doubt, Highlanders coach Waleed Javed Khan asked his players to try and build from the back. He wanted them to score more goals but through intricate passing and movement. Doing that, Highlanders sliced through their …