Focus on the Family, a Christian organization, brought its SeeLife 2021 convention to American Airlines Center in Dallas this weekend to share abortion opposition stories. During the event, the organization announced that they were donating a mobile ultrasound unit to five pregnancy centers that operate on the border. The event, which organizers said had 7,000 attendees, featured a 30-minute concert from Matthew …

A man who killed a Lyft driver Sunday afternoon in Garland and then opened fire at Plano police headquarters before an officer shot him may have been inspired by foreign terrorists, authorities say. Imran Ali Rasheed, 32, of Garland died from the wounds he sustained in Sunday’s shooting, police said at a news conference Monday. The woman who was slain …

State lawmakers appear poised to put forward legislation that would empower local school boards to set their own policies on mask mandates — as long as they leave room for parents to opt their child out of wearing a face covering to class. The House Public Education committee was originally set to consider two dueling pieces of legislation at their …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 27-year-old has been charged with stabbing a woman less than a year after she was charged with murder in a fatal stabbing. Felisha Kaffara Washington was charged on Friday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The female victim survived. But before this incident took place, Washington was free on bond for the murder of …

RICHMOND, Texas (KTRK) — A popular Houston Instagram model was found dead in a Richmond apartment in what investigators believe may have been a murder-suicide. It happened on Sunday afternoon at the Cortland Apartments located at 5200 Pointe West Circle. The model, who was identified as 33-year-old Jenae Gagnier, also known as Miss Mercedes Morr on social media, was found dead inside. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The manager of a Houston gentleman’s club and two of his employees have been convicted of killing an Army veteran at a nightclub in 2017. According to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, the trio — 39-year-old Carlos Segura, 31-year-old Priscilla Ashley Castellano and 30-year-old Eleazar Leon — worked together to clean up the crime scene. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — One of the two men accused of killing an off-duty New Orleans police officer at a Houston restaurant told investigators the officer was shot because it looked like one of the victims during the attempted robbery was pulling a weapon, according to court records. The detail was revealed during one of the court appearances scheduled Monday …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houstonians, it’s time to do what we do best: step up, and help out. Some businesses across the Houston area have decided to open their doors in effort to help those who evacuated before Ida made landfall on Sunday Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen’s ministry will be opening its doors for those who have been displaced …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man has been charged with murder after the body of a woman missing since late July has been found. Shawtyeria Waites, 21, was last seen by her friend after going out for her birthday on July 25 at an apartment at 8950 Chimney Rock Rd. in southwest Houston. Waites was reported missing two days later …

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters Monday, and utility repair crews rushed in, after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat. Residents living amid the maze of rivers and bayous along the state’s Gulf Coast retreated …