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KILLEEN, Texas (KTRK) — Officials are asking for the public’s help in the search for a missing Fort Hood soldier who they say left her post earlier this week, and hasn’t been seen since. According to a press release provided by Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Services, Pfc. Jennifer Sewell was last seen leaving her post on base at around 4 p.m. …

KILLEEN, Texas (KTRK) — Officials are asking for the public’s help in the search for a missing Fort Hood soldier who they say left her post earlier this week, and hasn’t been seen since. According to a press release provided by Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Services, Pfc. Jennifer Sewell was last seen leaving her post on base at around 4 p.m. …

A 61-year-old man has been accused of arson after a school building in Fort Worth was set ablaze Saturday night, police say. Joseph Terry Dorsey was arrested after investigators determined the fire at Atwood McDonald Elementary was intentionally set. Dorsey, 61, faces charges of burglary of a building and arson, according to the Fort Worth fire department. Firefighters were called …

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — If you’ve driven by Brays Bayou recently, you’ve seen the orange construction barrels making traffic slightly more unbearable. Luckily, the 20-year project to help relieve flooding in the area is close to done, according to the Harris County Flood Control District. “We’re very pleased with all the work that’s been done,” said Felipe Paz, the …

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are trending down across North Texas, health officials say. New admissions for coronavirus are declining in the four most populous North Texas counties, according to the latest forecast from UT Southwestern Medical Center. The number of hospitalizations in Dallas County is expected to fall steeply, to about 600 by mid-October. Currently, 765 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 in the …

A child who died this month from a rare infection caused by an amoeba likely contracted it from an Arlington splash pad, city and public health officials said Monday. The child was hospitalized at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare and often fatal infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, sometimes called a brain-eating amoeba. The child …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The passenger of a car was killed after being involved in an accident with a METRO bus Saturday night, officials say. According to a representative from METRO, the bus and the car reportedly crashed in the 3500 block of Bennington Street in northeast Houston. The car had two people inside at the time of the accident. …

A military training aircraft crashed into a residential area of Lake Worth on Sunday, injuring two pilots and three residents and damaging three homes, officials said. A T-45C Goshawk jet crashed around 10:50 a.m. in between the 4000 blocks of Tejas and Dakota trails during a routine training flight from Corpus Christi International Airport, Lake Worth police and the Naval …

hNearly nine months after COVID-19 vaccinations began, millions of Americans will be coming due for recommended booster shots. But preparations for widely administering another round of shots are still underway across North Texas as officials await federal guidance. In mid-August, President Joe Biden and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to distribute booster shots, beginning Sept. …

Hundreds of thousands of public health records, including COVID-19 vaccination details, were exposed in a data breach that was linked to an app that is used at Denton County vaccine clinics, officials say. A malfunction in the third-party software revealed contact and identifying information, as well as COVID-19 vaccination types and appointment dates and times, on the internet, officials said …