Just a few days after arriving at one of their favorite summer destinations, Stae and Wallace Hall of Fort Worth are already feeling the effects of Beryl. “The wind is picking up just a little,” said Stae. “They are starting to remove some of the light posts, they’re starting to take some of the cabanas down off of the beaches.” The powerful hurricane is roaring toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula after devastating the southeastern Caribbean. The projected path as of now has Beryl making landfall in the early morning hours of Friday just south of Tulum, located about 40 miles south…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
It’s a heart-stopping story with a happy ending. A dog stuck in a drainpipe in Irving for several hours was rescued and reunited with its family overnight just before the Fourth of July holiday. The dog’s owner, Taylor Tousley, said minutes turned to hours as panic set in. She met with an NBC 5 crew at the site of the rescue, Canyon Ranch Elementary School, to explain how the events unfolded. “This is where it happened. She was actually barking from this hole right here, through this hole where we pulled this grate up,” Tousley said. “I was sitting here…
Nearly one month after an Arlington husband and father was killed in a crosswalk near home, Arlington Police named a person of interest in the fatal hit-and-run crash. They announced Thursday that officers are looking to speak with 24-year-old Joel Sac Tambriz about the death of 30-year-old Daniel Cruces. In the early morning hours of June 9, Cruces was just a few miles from home when tragedy struck. “Daniel needed to take a walk to get his mind cleared,” said Megan Vogel. Vogel said her husband left their apartment to walk to a convenience store and never returned. “An hour…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 4-year-old girl is dead after she was left unattended in the back of a vehicle in northwest Houston on Wednesday evening, according to police. Emergency responders were called to an apartment complex in the 6500 block of Hollister Road near Wilshire Place Drive around 6:30 p.m. At the scene, they found a 4-year-old girl suffering from heat exhaustion. She was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. According to Houston police, earlier in the day, two women and several children, including the 4-year-old, were out running errands. When they got home, everyone got out…
HOUSTON, Texas — Todo cambió. Everything changed. That’s how Arturo Monsiváis described the transformation his fifth-grade son experienced at Houston ISD’s Raul Martinez Elementary School this year. Teachers rushed through rapid-fire lessons, students tackled daily quizzes, and administrators prohibited hallway conversations. Monsiváis, a construction worker, noted that his son often found the new assignments too challenging. Yet, he encouraged his son to persevere, emphasizing the importance of hard work for a better future. “I tell my son, ‘Look, do you want to be working out here in the sun like me, or do you want to be in an office…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston’s diversity brings a wide range of thoughts, feelings, and emotions about what the Fourth of July means. For many, the holiday can evoke mixed emotions, especially during a time of divisiveness and tension in the country. Freedom, liberty, and independence hold different meanings for different people. Some Houstonians told that it doesn’t feel like a time to celebrate given the country’s polarizing state, while others are using the day to focus on their friends and family. Andy Luu is celebrating the Fourth of July with both sides of his family for the first time in…
HOUSTON, Texas — Last year, as the Texas Legislature debated banning the use of puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender children, a Houston doctor breached Texas Children’s Hospital’s records, the largest pediatric hospital in the country. Dr. Eithan Haim, a former hospital employee, allegedly accessed personal information of underage patients not under his care and leaked it to a conservative activist, as court documents reveal. The activists published the information, sparking conservative outrage. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated an investigation, and the Legislature swiftly passed the ban. Over a year later, federal prosecutors have charged Haim with violating…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A popular TikTok user was startled awake on Thursday morning to discover that his truck and bass fishing boat had been stolen from his brother’s driveway in Tomball. Garrett Walters and his girlfriend, Lauren, had driven from Alabama to the Houston area, arriving around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Walters, a bass fisherman with over 360,000 TikTok followers, often shares videos of himself and his girlfriend on his decked-out Alabama boat. After parking his truck and boat in his brother’s driveway in the Amira neighborhood near the Grand Parkway and Mueschke, Walters went to bed. He…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities are investigating after a Harris County deputy shot a suspect on Thursday, according to the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez shared details of the incident around 3:10 p.m. on X, formerly known as Twitter. Deputies were responding to a disturbance call outside a gas station on FM 1960 near Ella Boulevard when a deputy shot a 47-year-old man, according to Gonzalez. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office stated the suspect was allegedly pointing a weapon at random people. Assistant Chief Tommy Diaz explained that upon the deputies’ arrival, the suspect retrieved a pistol from his waistband…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of another man outside a southwest Houston taco truck, according to records. Rontreyvius Wooten faces murder charges for the July 3 shooting that occurred near Richmond Avenue and Dunvale Road. Houston police responded to the scene shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Surveillance footage obtained by shows a white car entering the parking lot on Richmond just before the shooting. The vehicle stops, and someone exits and begins firing at the victim. Records indicate Wooten was arrested a few hours later, around 4:51 a.m. The…
