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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Two days after Election Day, all ballots subject to the 24-hour rule have been counted in Harris County, according to the Elections Administrator’s office. On Thursday, the counting continued for Harris County, and it was the only county in Texas that had yet turned in election results. The count took so long that Harris County officials …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The City of Houston is closely looking at an apartment complex after two bodies were found just a few days apart from each other. The city’s Apartment Task Force spent hours at The Redford in the 1300 block of Redford Street along the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston on Friday, according to Councilmember Dave Martin, who represents …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Patrol cars, heavily-armored SWAT officers, and a tactical robot were spotted in an otherwise normal northwest Harris County neighborhood on Friday evening. At 6:25 p.m., Sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting at a home at the Meadows of Northwest Park neighborhood in the 9700 block of Phil Halstead Drive. Investigators said a mother called 911 saying her …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) —has been following for a while the reports of cancer-causing chemicals and its effects on the residents of Fifth Ward for decades. On Friday, the Houston Health Department announced it has already started informing families that all 42 soil samples collected in July around the contaminated Union Pacific Rail Yard in the Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman has died after she fell from a pickup truck while driving with an acquaintance early Saturday morning, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded to a call that a woman had fallen from a vehicle on Grand Parkway SH 99 and FM 1485 at about 2 a.m. Upon arrival, units found a Ford pickup truck …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Ben Taub shut down an area of the hospital after bacteria was found in the water system, according to the Harris Health System. Authorities said they immediately shut down the areas where Legionella bacteria was found. Now, officials are waiting for the test results to come back to see if they can reopen. Hospital officials told …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Fuddruckers in northwest Harris County was destroyed by fire on Sunday, according to firefighters. Houston Fire Department crews said they responded to a building fire on FM 1960 near Breton Ridge at about 2:30 a.m. Upon arrival, HFD said they found heavy fire and smoke coming from a Fuddruckers Restaurant. Crews said they made a fast …

Hundreds of officers in Texas have signed up for a new state program that aims to reduce police suicide and self-harm rates by confidentially pairing law enforcement officers in need with peers trained to address mental-health problems, local and state officials announced Thursday. The Texas Law Enforcement Peer Network, launched this spring, is operated by the University of North Texas …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Nathan Bryan Miller is charged with capital murder for allegedly shooting two people, including a family member because they were performing witchcraft, officials said. The bizarre motive was revealed in court, where a magistrate temporarily denied Miller’s bond. “It appears the defendant waved the police down and called the attention to the murder and freely admitted he …

It was a meaningless scrimmage between a pair of 9-year-old-and-under football teams from different leagues on a sun-baked, dingy-yellow field at Lancaster Community Park that ended with countless lives forever changed. Coaches, players, fans and officials will never forget the day they saw a coach dying on the field, his body riddled with bullets. Michael Hickmon, a 43-year-old father and …