HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A grieving family is looking for answers about why someone stabbed their son to death as he came home from a job interview. Investigators said on Wednesday, sometime after 4:30 p.m., Rafielle Andrews was standing around the 2600 block of Sandlewood Trail Lane in north Harris County. Authorities said the 40-year-old had a toy in one …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The Houston Police Department has walked back whether a man shot by officers in an apartment hallway ever fired at them. On Wednesday, HPD said it had proof, but on Thursday, officials said they are investigating to determine if he fired at all. In the Ring doorbell camera footage that a resident sent, officers respond to a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A program that helped thousands of young people find jobs in Houston appears to be different under a new administration. Hire Houston Youth helps young people find work Luis Moreno knows how important the summer months are for students. “The summer is where I learned the most,” Moreno recalled. “Nothing beats on-the-job training.” He received this experience …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — When the Houston Police Department shelved more than 260,000 incident reports, it blamed staffing. Now, city officials are looking to expand their ranks. Sixty-eight cadets became HPD officers Thursday morning. Officials told their graduation was a welcome Band-Aid on a much bigger issue. “Houston, we have a problem,” Mayor John Whitmire said of department staffing. In May, …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities are looking for two juveniles they say set a 6-week-old kitten on fire Thursday morning. The cruel crime was captured on multiple surveillance cameras around 1 a.m. on the 12600 block of Drifting Woods Drive in northeast Harris County. You can see the kitten running down the street engulfed in flames as a dog that …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A mother wants answers from Houston ISD after her 3-year-old left school Monday with a head injury. Her mother, Jazzlyn Price, said her daughter Harmoni is both autistic and nonverbal. She’s in pre-kindergarten at Briargrove Elementary in the Greater Uptown. “I just feel like someone is hiding something,” Price said. According to Price, Harmoni came home from …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman killed during a police chase in southeast Houston was hit by the driver who was running from officers, according to police. The driver is still on the loose after the chase ended in the 3400 block of Rebecca Street, near the I-610 South Loop interchange with SH-288 in the South Union/Greater Old Spanish Trail area. …

CAPE CANAVERAL: Boeing launched its very first astronauts bound for the International Space Station aboard a Starliner capsule on Wednesday. This joins a ‘select club’ of spacecraft, carrying humans beyond the planet Earth. The aerospace giant finally found success after its third attempt. Two previous bids to fly with a crew were aborted late into the countdown, owing to technical difficulties. Astronauts Butch Wilmore …

Aformer Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts. Ferras Hamad, a Palestinian-American engineer, who had been on Meta’s machine learning team since 2021, sued the social …