News Roundup

  • HPD has confirmed that a woman in a Ford Expedition was killed in a multi-vehicle accident on the Katy Freeway this morning
  • About 120 fugitive illegal immigrants were arrested as part of a nationwide sweep that resulted in some 2,100 arrests, federal officials said
  • Carson Kainer, a UT baseball outfielder from Tomball, needs a kidney transplant, doctors said
  • A 15-year-old was killed late yesterday in a drive-by shooting in west Harris County; police believe the shooting was related to another Tuesday in which a teen was killed
  • Two masked men shot a store owner to death this morning in front of his 11-year-old son
  • New York City police have arrested a homeless man in the stabbing of four people in Manhattan, including vacationing 21-year-old Houstonian Christopher McCarthy
  • Sugar Land police have arrested a 35-year-old Stafford man in connection with the June 1 robbery of a Wells Fargo bank branch
  • A pair of Rice University graduates donated $32 million to the university to help support and expand its residential college system

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