Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth is rescheduling all elective surgeries that require inpatient admission to Oct. 11 or later due to the latest surge of COVID-19, the hospital said in a prepared statement issued Thursday evening. “We’re taking this extraordinary step to utilize Cook Children’s perioperative RNs in other areas of the hospital, including ICUs,” the statement said. …

A federal judge in Austin late Thursday denied the U.S. Justice Department’s request this week for expedited briefing in its challenge to SB 8, the Texas law that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman says that the case presents “complex” and “important” questions that merit giving each party the full …

AUSTIN — You may think Texas legislators have been squawking and scrapping over contentious stuff all year. But just wait until they return for a third overtime session on Monday. No topic lands closer to home than what’s at the top of their agenda – redistricting. Once a decade, the Legislature decamps behind closed doors to redraw political boundaries. This …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An MS-13 gang leader has been sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killing of a 16-year-old witness to several murders. Omar Torres, 28, was already behind bars in connection with another shooting in 2016 when he ordered several other gang members to kill Estuar Quinonez at Buffalo Run Park in Missouri City, according to …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police need your help finding a man they say is behind at least nine aggravated robberies at ATMs in west Houston. The robberies date back to December 2020. In the most recent case, which unfolded on Aug. 3 at around 11:35 p.m., police say a woman was taking out cash from an ATM in the 11600 …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 54-year-old father said he’s grateful his family is OK after a stray bullet reportedly went through their front door, hitting the man in the arm while he slept. It happened in southeast Houston at Reveille Street and Park Place Boulevard around 3 a.m. on Thursday. Ines Rosas said he was asleep on his couch when …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — When he was a first grader at Haude Elementary in Klein ISD, Glenn Otto Jr. told his teacher, who then wrote it on a paper star, that he wanted to be a baseball player when he grew up. On Thursday, the former Concordia Lutheran High School student who starred at Rice University, pitches for the Texas …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — An 8-year-old girl is hospitalized after she was hit by an SUV Thursday morning in north Harris County. It happened just before 7:45 a.m. in the 14300 block of Ella Blvd., between Kuykendahl Road and Rushworth Drive. Authorities said the driver stayed at the scene, telling them that she did not see the child. The …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A nonprofit created to help Latino families connect with Houston ISD education leaders is looking to expand its reach due to the demand. Houston ISD is the largest school district in Texas, serving nearly 200,000 students. According to the district’s website, 61.8% of its student population is Hispanic. Sandra Rodriguez, the director of advocacy with Latinos for Education, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Police believe they have arrested the man who they say shot a father of seven to death over a “door ding” at a north Houston gas station parking lot, a source close to the investigation told on Thursday. Twenty-five-year-old Elijah Kuluanya faces a murder charge after Demrick Thomas was shot to death in the area of …