HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Siblings, ages 20 and 21 years old, were two of the three people shot to death in an attack in southwest Houston. Medical examiners identified the younger two victims of Wednesday night’s shooting on Ranchester Drive as Luis Ruiz and Jessica Ruiz. Luis was Jessica’s older brother, according to a family member. According to Houston police, the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An estimated 10,000 COVID-19 vaccine appointments filled quickly at Memorial Hermann’s vaccine drive-thru clinic for teachers, but you can get on the waiting list to get vaccinated soon. Teachers signed up for vaccines to be given Sunday and Monday at the Smart Financial Centre in Sugar Land The push is to get teachers, staff, bus drivers …

HOUSTON, Texas — The Dolphins and Texans have agreed to a swap of starting linebackers, with Miami sending Shaq Lawson to Houston and receiving Benardrick McKinney in return, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The teams are also swapping late-round picks in the deal. Miami is sending out a 2021 sixth-round pick and receiving back a 2021 seventh-round pick, sources told …

FORT WORTH, Texas — Quentin Grimes kept making big shots for No. 7 Houston, and then Justin Gorham secured a third consecutive appearance for the Cougars in the American Athletic Conference Tournament championship. Gorham scored Houston’s last six points on a nifty one-handed reverse layup and four free throws, and the Cougars held off Memphis for a 76-74 semifinal win Saturday. “He’s the heart …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston boxing legend and his wife have been fighting the fight of their lives for the past 12 months. Maurice Watkins, better known as Termite, a former professional boxer and Houston legend, contracted COVID-19 a year ago. “It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year,” his wife Cindy said. “It’s been a whole year, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Texas is expanding its vaccine availability to those 50 years and older, the age group that has made up 93% of COVID-19 deaths in Texas, in the state’s 1C phase. Texas’ 1C phase is different from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s definition of the 1C Category. The state announced it will base the phases on ages, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston native Trae tha Truth, the rapper, songwriter and activist has cut the ribbon on his new pop-up store in the Galleria. The Bumpboxx pop-up store sells sound systems that claim to be the world’s loudest bluetooth boomboxes. Trae tha Truth was joined Saturday by some of his friends for the grand opening which drew a crowd …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — For the past year some would say we’ve been living in a bubble, and now rock band Flaming Lips is performing in one. They tested out the “space bubble” back in 2004 not knowing that 16 years later it would take new shape. “Pre-COVID days it was a way of crowd surfing. It was a way …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo is moving on to other challenges, according to a late night email, confirmed by the officers’ union. He spent most of his law enforcement career in California but always had his eyes set on Houston, he once said. Now it appears Acevedo is heading to take a new role in Miami. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Yesterday’s cool front has stalled off the coast and will be lifting back up through SE Texas as a warm front today. That warm front means despite a cool start with most temps this morning in the 50s, we’ll see a return of the warmer air with high temperatures reaching the low 80s this afternoon and …