HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The winter weather might leave some people in southeast Texas on edge, given last year’s freeze. Experts told those feelings of anxiety can be normal. Brandy Lerman, a licensed professional counselor with Southwest Psychotherapy Associates, said people who might be feeling a certain way should self-soothe. She adds that people should also take time for themselves. “Do a little bit of leaning in,” said Lerman. “Recognizing that there is an element of helplessness to that. There is an element of anxiety. To say that’s abnormal, I don’t think is quite right. Being able to recognize when you…
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — When Houstonians went to sleep Thursday night, it’s safe to say more than a few people were worried whether their lights would turn on Friday morning. “There was a lot of political pressure … a lot of pressure on everyone to keep the lights on,” said Joshua Rhodes, Ph.D., an electricity expert with the UT Austin-based Webber Energy Group. “At least that did happen.” Rhodes said that while we should be relieved the lights stayed on, we should not be relaxed because Texas is still susceptible to rolling blackouts. “The fact that the power stayed on…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — It’s been almost two years since the FBI raided the Houston ISD administration building as part of a multi-year investigation. On Feb. 27, 2020, FBI agents served search warrants on the district’s Hattie Mae White Building, the northwest Harris County home of former chief operating officer Brian Busby, and the home of Anthony Hutchison, the owner of Southwest Wholesale who was contacted to do landscaping for the district. Court documents said agents seized $90,000 from Busby that day and about $100,000 from Hutchison. Since then, the men have been arrested and charged in federal court for…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — El cuatro de febrero es el Día Nacional de Vestirse de Rojo y febrero también es el mes para crear conciencia sobre las enfermedades del corazón. Según la Asociación Estadounidense del Corazón, las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la principal causa de muerte entre las mujeres, más que todos los tipos de cáncer combinados. De hecho, una de cada tres mujeres perderá la vida a causa de una enfermedad cardíaca de acuerdo con las más recientes estadísticas. Las mujeres de color son las más afectadas por esta enfermedad. Las mujeres afroamericanas tuvieron una tasa de hospitalización de 240%…
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — An investigation, from our partners at the Houston Chronicle, followed the money from political donors to Harris County commissioners. It found many donors are executives of companies that keep landing lucrative county contracts for things like cars, landscaping and road projects. Without this three-month-long investigation, we never would have known commissioners, for the most part, are only listing donors’ names, instead of their occupations, on their public disclosures. Houston Chronicle reporter Zach Despart on what is so egregious about the secrecy. “I think we should always be concerned when people accept political donations from the same…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The mother of a missing Houston man says his disappearance is very unlike him and hopes the public can help police find him. Daniel DeShawn Brown, 35, was last seen Jan. 25, 2022 near the 5000 block of Washington Avenue. “He’s a good person,” Brown’s mother, Alma, said while fighting back tears. “He’s been paying rent for people with cancer. He’s been doing so much for other people.” And now, this hurting mother hopes other people will do something for her son. Houston police confirm they’re working an active investigation to find the father of three.…
HOUSTON, Texas — Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, the Houston furniture salesman known to place giant hedge bets, has done it again — this time with the biggest single wager he’s ever placed. On Thursday, McIngvale drove across the Texas border into Louisiana, pulled over at a gas station, logged onto his mobile betting account with Caesars Sportsbook and placed $4.5 million in bets on the underdog Cincinnati Bengals at +170 odds to upset the favored Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI. If the Bengals spring the upset, the bet would net $7.7 million. “I had to make like 20…
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BEIJING: FIFA’s fading plan for biennial World Cups was labelled a threat from football to all other sports by the International Olympic Committee on Thursday. On the first day of the IOC session before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday, IOC members called on Gianni Infantino, the president of world football governing body and who is also an IOC member, to drop his plans. Infantino, who has cancelled his trip to China, has said changing the World Cup cycle from four years to two would generate an extra $4.4 billion in revenues for the world body. IOC…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s latest football crisis is on the verge of being over. The long-running crisis, though, is expected to end when the FIFA-appointed Pakistan Football Federation Normalisation Committee finally holds a fair election of the country’s football governing body. First, though, it has to regain control of the PFF headquarters, which Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Dr Fehmida Mirza said on Thursday would take place in the next two weeks. In the government, the Haroon Malik-led NC has gained a crucial ally as it fought for the control of the PFF headquarters in Lahore, which were seized in March last…
