Back to school with a beat at Pershing Elementary in North Dallas on Monday. Nearby middle and high school students showed up to cheer on the first busload of elementary students back to school. Parents were all smiles, most students too but the littlest learners had a few tears; it’s just a part of that first day of class. “I’m just hoping for the best. I’m just trying to stay calm so he can stay calm,” said Leslie Molina referring to her son Mateo. She tried to keep the tears away from his eyes. It’s his first year here, she swapped schools…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
Justin Choy is living his dream in a split screen kind of way. He is a glasses-wearing, mild-mannered medical student at the Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University. In July, he was part of Team USA at the FISU World University Championships Powerlifting in Estonia. “It’s something I thought about, like, every day since I was 14,” Choy said of reaching the top tournament in his sport. “You know, it definitely felt like, um, like I was joining the dark side when I first started!” Choy started powerlifting when he was a skinny high school student. Over the years, he transformed his…
One person died Monday afternoon after a multi-vehicle accident involving six vehicles in Anna. The crash happened around 12:15 p.m. on northbound US 75 in Anna just north of FM 455, according to police. One person died in the collision and two others suffered injuries. The injured were transported to a nearby medical facility. Four others involved in the wreck declined medical care at the scene. Anna Police and other responders from the Collin County Sheriff’s Office are investigating what led up to the crash.
The city of Dallas is expected to respond this week to a lawsuit filed by the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System over who has the final say on approving a plan designed to address a $3.4 billion pension shortfall. Dallas City councilmember Tennell Atkins, who chairs an ad hoc committee on pensions, said Monday that the city is still working on a solution to fully fund the pension in 30 years and submit the plan to the Texas Pension Review Board by November. The plan, adopted in a vote Thursday, will also accomplish the same fully funded pension by 2055 by…
In November 1963, one of the most traumatic moments in US history happened in Dallas. cameras were there in Dealey Plaza when an assassin killed President Kennedy. That coverage will soon be available to the public at the Sixth Floor Museum. One of 5 photographers captured the moments after the gunshots rang out and the president’s motorcade sped away to Parkland Hospital. Reporters interview the man who served the president’s last hotel meal, the judge who swore in President Johnson on Air Force One, and the mother of the accused assassin. Those clips and others will be available later this…
Hundreds answered the call to support our teachers during the first Share Your School Supplies Drive. Eyewitness News anchors and reporters fanned out Friday morning to collect donations of school supplies with Houston Food Bank’s Teacher Aid program, which provides resources for teachers in low income schools. Together, we raised $22,431.37, with thousands of pounds of individual donations still being counted in Houston, Galveston, Richmond/Rosenberg, Spring and Sugar Land. If you didn’t get a chance to donate, you can still give online or text “SYSS2024” to 71777. Last year, educators in Texas spent more than $300 million of their own money for pencils, folders, notebook…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Monday marked the first day of school for the largest school district in Texas — Houston ISD. On Sunday evening, the district said it was still working to assign bus routes for around 700 students. HISD said students who have not been assigned a route may get on a bus at any stop or route that is for their campus. The district said bus drivers were told to pick students up and drop them off, even if they were not assigned to a route or stop. Parents were told to call one of HISD’s transportation services helplines…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Survivors of gun violence in Houston used their weekend to call for change. Aswad Thomas, a survivor of gun violence and the national director of the Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice organization, joined Eyewitness News on Monday and explained how they’re advocating to help Houston families and communities heal. On Aug. 10, local crime victims spoke out and called for key public safety reforms. They want policies and programs that will stop the cycle of violence and connect crime victims to the resources they need to heal. The organization also advocates for trauma recovery centers like…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Charges have been filed against a 27-year-old man accused of murdering the mother of his child in northwest Houston over the weekend. On Saturday, Aug. 10, the Houston Police Department said Ivan Bautista Cazarez walked into a police station and admitted to killing the woman, driving her to a parking lot near the Northwest Freeway and West 34 Street, and leaving her body in a car. At about 4:10 p.m., HPD officers found the woman dead in the backseat of the vehicle. Cazarez was interviewed by homicide detectives and subsequently charged with murder. He was then booked…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s daughter, Erica Lee Carter, announced on Monday that she wants to “finish for my mom” and finish the rest of her late mother’s term in the current congressional session. In a statement, Carter mentioned the Nov. 5 special election to elect a new 18th Congressional District representative to complete Jackson Lee’s unfinished term. The district stretches as far north as the Westfield and Bush Intercontinental Airport area and as far south as the Old Spanish Trail area. “The people of the 18th Congressional District re-elected my mother to the 118th Congress to…
