HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — FIEL Houston, a local advocacy organization, announced Friday that other groups representing immigrants from around the world will participate in a nationwide awareness campaign. ‘A Day Without Immigrants,’ the nationwide event sparked from a TikTok post by a student in College Station. Cesar Espinosa, the executive director of FIEL Houston, said the goal of the campaign is to show how immigrant families have a significant impact in the communities they call home. “We’ve been in talks with folks from the South Asian community. There’s a group of Korean immigrants that will be here on Monday to…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It’s not just the price of milk, meat and gas rising. So is rent, and it’s rising too much for some renters to keep afloat. RENT RISES NEARLY 40% ACROSS THE COUNTRY SINCE 2014 The data team compiled numbers of rent from the past seven years in several cities across the country. What it discovered is rent is up 39% compared to seven years ago. In Houston, rent has gone from $1,230 a month in 2014 to $1,515 in 2021. It’s an increase that renters know too well. “I rent a two-bedroom and since the last…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — More than 100 friends and family members of a man shot to death by police gathered Friday evening for an emotional vigil. Carrying white balloons and wearing matching T-shirts, they met at the Langley Market on Houston’s north side. The vigil was in honor of Charion Lockett, who was shot and killed by police while they tried to execute an arrest warrant at his home on Monday. Houston police said Lockett opened fire first, prompting officers to respond and ultimately killed him. Lockett’s family has disputed that version of events and point to the fact that…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — He’s not only at the top of his sport, but he’s gotten there by doing it the right way. Friday as UFC celebrated Houston’s Derrick Lewis for surpassing 50 clean drug tests. “Typically when news comes out – it’s bad news,” explained Jeff Novitzky, the UFC Senior vice president for athlete health and safety. Novitzky flew into Houston from Las Vegas ahead of Saturday’s UFC 271 at the Toyota Center to present Lewis with a jacket for 57 clean drug tests over a seven-year span. “Those tests come at any time,” Novitzky added. “They come in…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Democrats could secure a supermajority on the Harris County Commissioners Court if they oust incumbent Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle in the general election, but Cagle told he intends to win his re-election and continue serving the people. Cagle said he expects crime and taxes to dominate the race as the top two issues. “I am someone who is an advocate for the taxpayer. I tend to think, we on the government side, who are the tax spenders, should be respectful of what it costs the taxpayers to put that into our hands,” said Cagle.…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Two people were injured in a small plane that was found at a golf course in northwest Harris County, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. On Friday, Gonzalez said units found a small damaged aircraft in the 18000 block of Clay Road near Barker Cypress. Life flight was called to the scene to aid the two people. “Both are alive but injured,” Gonzalez tweeted. An investigation remains ongoing and Texas DPS was responding to the scene.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police have arrested a man they believe killed another man on Sunday and then went back two days later to try to kill a witness to the murder. Parys Burks-Henderson, 18, is charged with murder for the shooting death of 21-year-old Alexis Cantu, as well as attempted capital murder in the shooting of a 22-year-old. The male victim, who was shot multiple times as he slept, was a witness to the murder, police said. The victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Police said the murder occurred Sunday, Feb. 6, when Burks-Henderson broke…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An Austin man who is fighting his fourth round of cancer says he ended up battling his insurance company too. Michael Ginsberg is an addiction counselor from Austin. Married with a son and stepson, he knew he had no choice but to take cancer head-on again. “So I have Hodgkin’s lymphoma for the fourth time,” said Ginsberg of his November 2021 diagnosis. At 37 years old, he has now been fighting the deadly disease for more than a decade. “And at this point, they don’t really have specific treatments for that,” he said. But he did…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Four middle school students are in custody after videos circulating social media showed them attacking a Langham Creek High School Coach on campus on Thursday, Feb. 10. The Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District also confirmed threats were made on social media against the school on Friday. Thursday’s attack happened when four middle school students, who officials confirmed are from Aragon Middle School, were on the high school campus during baseball practice. Michael Shott, an assistant baseball coach and physics teacher at Langham Creek High, was injured in the attack. “He’s doing fine. He’s at home.…
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