DEER PARK, Texas (KTRK) — A 16-year-old is being called a hero after taking a bullet for his stepmother during an armed carjacking in Deer Park on Tuesday night. Police said the man who shot the teen in the upper torso is facing multiple charges after an armed robbery and leading law enforcement on a multi-jurisdictional chase. William Hammond’s parents told their son should fully recover after his fast action to help defend his stepmom. The family said they want justice and the man accused of doing this to be put away for life. “William is the hero. And he took…
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — More than two weeks after Beryl hit, many of us still have giant piles of tree limbs in our yards. As we face more severe, wet weather, residents are worried that storm debris will clog ditches and drains. “Overwhelmed. Honestly, overwhelmed,” Pierre Puget, who lives in Independence Heights, said. “A lot of pick up should be done as soon as possible for us to be able to go farther with the work we have to do.” Since Hurricane Beryl hit, Houston crews have picked up about 150,000 tons of storm debris. But, even with extra crews in…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Harris County District Judge Kelli Johnson’s court reporter, Gail A. Rolen, says she’s filed a judicial complaint following months of troubling behavior. Rolen told Eyewitness News on Wednesday that she filed the complaint on July 11 because of a “significant decline in Judge Johnson’s behavior,” which she said predates her highly publicized April traffic stop and June DWI arrest. Rolen has been Johnson’s official reporter for the 178th District Court since January 2017 and was there for high-profile trials, including that of A.J. Armstrong. The complaint comes weeks after Johnson was arrested on a DWI charge when she reportedly…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in Houston to speak at the American Federation of Teachers convention. The union and the National Education Association endorsed her for president earlier this week. Chalkbeat’s national editor, Erica Meltzer, joined Eyewitness News to look at her record on schools and education. She and her colleagues examined Harris’ platform when she ran for president in 2019. “[Harris] really was advocating for a big pay raise for teachers to make their pay equivalent to other people who needed a college degree to do their jobs. She also called for efforts to diversify the teaching…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — “She’s as cold as ice,” said the caller to the 911 dispatcher. “I think she’s deceased.” It was 4:06 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2014. A girl’s beaten body was found in a vacant apartment in Clear Lake, Texas. “It looks like there’s a toilet bowl lid thing-you know from the back of the tank?” said the caller. “It’s smashed up all over the place. I think that might be what they used to kill her.” It was dark and dank in that empty apartment with no power, but pieces of that white porcelain toilet tank lid…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Three babies were abandoned in the last month around Houston, and the circumstances surrounding each one are disturbing. The first situation happened in June, when a man was walking along a road in southeast Houston and heard a baby crying, according to court documents. He then found a newborn baby and called police. In the second case, a woman half a mile away was covered in blood and said she had just given birth, according to police. Court documents show that the woman is charged with abandoning a child. On Sunday, shocking video showed the moment a…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — CenterPoint Energy executives are apologizing for Houston’s power crisis after Hurricane Beryl knocked out electricity to more than 2 million customers. Critics questioned CenterPoint’s preparedness in the weeks it took the utility company to get everyone’s power back on. Their executives provided some answers on Thursday in front of the Public Utility Commission (PUC). The meeting began on a poignant note with a public commenter who read the names of the victims who died during and after Hurricane Beryl. CenterPoint CEO Jason Wells followed with comments that agreed with the commission’s previous statement that his company has…
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The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, has confirmed the detection of the virus in an environmental sample from nine districts, taking the total number of districts with virus presence to 52 so far this year. In the first seven months, nine children have also been infected by the crippling disease. An official of the polio programme said environmental samples collected from Dadu, Hyderabad, Karachi South, Karachi Central, Karachi West, Quetta, Loralai, Rawalpindi and Islamabad contained WPV1. The official confirmed that the virus has now been reported in 52 districts so far this…
BRUSSELS: European Leagues and FIFPRO Europe will jointly file a complaint to EU antitrust regulators against FIFA’s international match calendar, the sports organisation and players union said on Tuesday, intensifying the spat with world football’s governing body. The move by the two bodies followed legal action by the English, French and Italian player unions against FIFA on the same issue in a Brussels commercial court last month. The complaint to the European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, will be filed in the coming weeks, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. European Leagues and FIFPRO…
