HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police need your help finding a man they say robbed a 72-year-old woman after she had just taken out some cash from a nearby bank. It happened on Friday, June 11, just before 2 p.m. at the parking lot of a shopping center in the 1400 block of Wirt Road near Westview. The woman told police …

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators say transplant recipients and others with severely weakened immune systems can get an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to better protect them as the delta variant continues to surge. The late-night announcement Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration applies to several million Americans who are especially vulnerable because of organ transplants, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Darrell Green’s latest distinction causes a bit of disbelief. “Like, are you kidding me?” Green asked during a Thursday interview with ABC13. “I would have never dreamed, in a million years, that this would happen.” Green, a two-time Super Bowl champion who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008, is part of …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Two juvenile suspects have now been charged in the deadly shooting of a grandmother as she walked into a southeast Houston gym in June. Almost seven weeks after officers arrested a 16-year-old in connection to the murder, police announced a second juvenile suspect had been arrested. The two underage suspects are both charged with murder in …

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The chase suspect who was wounded in a shootout with law enforcement after crashing along I-10 in Chambers County has died, according to authorities. The crash scene located just east of Anahuac is connected with a barricade in east Harris County where deputy constables had been fired at Thursday morning, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston area is on pace to exceed its previous peak of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and doctors say we could reach that rate in as little as a week. This has since caused a massive strain on hospital staffing. The state has said it’s working with staffing agencies to provide temporary crews to help – which secures …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — New U.S. Census Bureau data shows, unlike the majority of the country, southeast Texas grew in last decade – which could bring more money and representation to our area. U.S. POPULATION SLOWS LAST DECADE The U.S. Census Bureau delivered the report months later than normal because of the pandemic, but that wasn’t the only thing that was delayed. …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is going against Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide ban on mask mandates and is issuing an order that requires face coverings to be worn in schools. The order, issued on Thursday afternoon, states all public and non-religious private schools along with licensed child care centers must follow the guidance issued by …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — When students return to Houston ISD campuses on Aug. 23, they’ll be required to wear a mask after the district’s board of trustees voted Thursday to approve a mandate. It comes after superintendent Millard House said last week that he would propose a mask mandate for all students, staff and visitors at all of their schools, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 22-year-old man who shot to death outside of his father’s east Houston home was on leave from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Albert Castillo Jr. was an Airman First Class and active duty, according to his aunt, Cynthia Ortiz. He was on a two-week leave to visit family and friends in Houston where he …