Emergency officials in Harris and Montgomery counties are issuing alerts to residents living near the San Jacinto River’s East Fork about rising water levels anticipated for Wednesday. A Flood Warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for the east fork near New Caney, affecting Liberty, Harris, and Montgomery counties. Major flooding is forecasted, with water levels expected to rise by 10 to 15 feet due to heavy rainfall upstream from storms on Sunday and Monday. Harris County’s Office of Emergency Management anticipates widespread lowland flooding along the river, leading to numerous street closures. FM-1485 is projected to be…
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In Chambers County, Texas, law enforcement officials fatally shot a man armed with an AR-style weapon after he held his ex-girlfriend and their 3-year-old child hostage during a pursuit, announced Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Christian Acosta, 39 years old, by family members. The incident began with a call from a relative of Acosta’s ex-girlfriend around 6 a.m., reporting that Acosta had abducted the 29-year-old woman and the toddler from a residence on Desert Flower near Highway 249 in the Fallbrook area. Acosta, the child’s father, and the woman were in a common-law…
In Houston, Texas, personal injury attorney Chi Nguyen played a role in the apprehension of a suspect who broke into his family’s home on Monday. Houston Police Department officers responded to the residence on Telephone Road near Beatty on the southeast side, where they discovered the intruder had been shot. Although Attorney Nguyen does not reside in the home himself, his family does. A prominent billboard advertising the Pusch and Nguyen law firm is located prominently at the front of the property. While Nguyen did not fire the shot, a witness reported that he restrained the suspect until officers arrived…
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WASHINGTON: NASA’s James Webb telescope has captured the most detailed infrared images ever taken of the Horsehead Nebula, one of the most majestic and recognizable objects in the night sky, the space agency said on Monday. The new observations show the top of the “horse’s mane,” revealing for the first time the small scale structures on the edge of the giant cloud of dust and gas. Located roughly 1,300 light years away in the constellation Orion ‘The Hunter’, the iconic silhouette of a horse’s head and neck rises from what look like churning waves of interstellar foam.
MADRID: Real Madrid have their sights set on a La Liga and Champions League double, but to lift the latter they must find a way past Bayern Munich, their “bestia negra” — “black beast”. Carlo Ancelotti’s side travel to Bavaria for the semi-final first leg clash on Tuesday, in a fixture dubbed the ‘European Clasico’, the most repeated in the competition’s history. Despite Real’s forbidding nickname for Bayern, they have shaded the Bundesliga side across their 26 encounters, with 12 wins to Bayern’s 11. In the last decade Real clearly have the edge on the German giants. The record 14-time…
WELLINGTON: Captain Kane Williamson will play at his sixth Twenty20 World Cup in June after New Zealand named an experienced 15-man squad on Monday. The tournament, taking in the United States and the West Indies from June 2-30, will be Williamson’s fourth as captain. The batsman leads a squad including New Zealand’s Test captain Tim Southee, who will be taking part in his seventh T20 World Cup. Southee, 35, has taken a record 157 T20 International wickets and he spearheads the attack alongside seasoned pace bowler Trent Boult, 34, who will be playing in his fifth T20 World Cup. Seam…
ISLAMABAD: After suffering widespread criticism, the Pakistan Sports Board got the Amir Khan Boxing Academy vacated from Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force which had been residing in its premises for almost two years, in the wee hours of Monday. The issue had come to light on Friday, when Britain-born Pakistani boxer Amir Khan raised his voice over the FC setting up their residence in the academy located in the premises of the Pakistan Sports Complex. A PSB officer informed that the premises was vacated from the FC at 2:00am on Monday with staff from the country’s sports regulatory…
LAHORE: While Jason Gillespie would like to rely on “communication and clarity” to get the best out of the Pakistan Test team, Gary Kirsten would need an environment conducive for “continuity and consistency” for the national side to thrive in the shorter formats. Both Gillespie and Kirsten — appointed on Sunday as the national side’s head coaches for the Test and white-ball formats respectively — are set to enter the world of Pakistan cricket, which has been marred by more than a year of turmoil, with high standards and principles that define their respective coaching philosophies. As a reflection of countries instable…
ISLAMABAD: A new committee formed by the prime minister to identify flaws and failures of the Track and Trace System (TTS) is likely to submit its report today (Tuesday). The committee, headed by Finance Secretary Imdadullah Bosal, will likely hold the TTS project directors responsible. The TTS is a software-based solution for tracking vehicles, loading units, shipments, and products throughout the entire supply chain, from supplier to consumer. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tasked Mr Bosal to identify officials involved in the delayed implementation of the system. The federal cabinet made the decision last week after rejecting an earlier report submitted by a…
