For World Refugee Day on June 20, which is an internationally-recognized occasion to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and to protect their human rights around the globe, Garland resident Alison Valiente told her story In addition to starting a family in Garland, Valiente works as a translator for Refugee Services of Texas in Dallas and Fort Worth and …

Texas is transferring inmates from a state prison to make room for migrants detained by state authorities, a prison system spokesman said Thursday. The prison system began moving inmates from the Dolph Briscoe Unit prison in Dilley to other prisons Wednesday, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel said. The medium-to-minimum-security prison about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southwest of …

That’s how much Peruvian scammers stole from Bud and Charlotte Cawyer of Smith County. They did it so methodically, so smartly that the Cawyers didn’t see it coming. The couple – he’s 80, she’s 74 – will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary next month. They won’t be spending any money to do it. Their life savings are gone. A man …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, saying he believes it will go down as one of the greatest honors he has as president. Biden signed into law a bill to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday. The House voted 415-14 on Wednesday to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Dry air wrapping around Potential Storm Three in the Gulf brings us hot and mostly dry weather for Friday. Temperatures will warm into the mid 90s on an easterly breeze. While we can’t rule out a stray shower or storm, your rain chance is less than 20%. We are also monitoring the Gulf of Mexico for …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Monday night, Eyewitness News anchor Melanie Lawson will go one-on-one with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, in a conversation about her new memoir, “On Juneteenth.” The discussion will stream live on digital platforms on Monday at 7 p.m., and is presented by Inprint and The Houston Museum of African American Culture. Gordon-Reed, author of “The Hemingses of …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police believe a woman shot and killed outside the gym she frequents in southeast Houston was an innocent victim in a string of attempted carjackings. Houston police responded to a shooting just before 5 a.m. Thursday outside Life Fit Personal Fitness Studio, located in the 10500 block of Fuqua Street near Beamer Road. According to HPD, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A newly-released state report reveals what happened when abuse was reported three weeks before 8-year-old Keyontae Holzendorf was found dead inside a hotel with “horrendous” injuries. The Child Fatality Report, released Thursday by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, includes information on the boy’s death on March 23 as well as contact that the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — New DNA analysis helped Houston police make an arrest in a nearly decades old cold case. Michael Anthony Cuellar was charged for the 2011 attack of Roland Darby Suiter inside his Montrose home. Suiter was a prominent property developer. According to his online obituary, he developed Suiter Construction Co. in 1956 and built 500 apartment units …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police didn’t know it then, but four days after an April murder at the Marq-E Entertainment Center, the same gun was allegedly used in the accidental shooting of a 3-year-old boy. Within days of that second shooting, forensic scientists matched gun evidence from one scene to the other, narrowing the search for a suspect. It …