The News Edge

Jared Chavis has been missing for four years and in our ongoing series, FOX 26’s Kaitlin Monte speaks with his father, who opens up about how a night on Westheimer led to a dark mystery and the news from law enforcement that left him stunned.

The city of Houston has lost another innocent child to senseless gun violence. A 9 year-old-girl was accidentally shot by a robbery victim in southeast Houston in a Chase Bank parking lot Monday night and Houston Police say the man had just been victimized and thought he was firing at the suspect who robbed him. Instead, he fired into a truck carrying a family. Crime continues to rise in Houston, and with Texas gun laws changing that now allow people to carry a weapon without obtaining a canceled handgun license, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has warned residents that they should assume everyone is carrying a weapon. So what happens when you're trying to defend yourself and that goes terribly wrong? The News Edge spoke to legal analyst Charles Adams about what the law says about firing in self-defense but missing your target.

FOX 26 Reporter Natalie Hee spoke with family members following the deadly shooting of their 9-year-old girl while a robbery they weren't involved in happened nearby.

At the Star of Hope, Women, and Family Development Center, special efforts were underway by the women of the Mary Kay Breakthrough unit to ensure hundreds of Houston women felt the kind of love that they deserve on Valentine's Day.

The Big Game is taking place on Sunday and there have been so many new bars opening in the Houston area. FOX 26's Coco Dominguez shares some places you may want to check out.

Authorities are investigating a small plane crash Friday evening at a golf course on the city's west side, where two people were injured.

Houston icon Mattress Mack, Jim McIngvale, making history with again the largest sports bet ever $5 million on the Bengals to beat the Rams in the Super Bowl. This bet was with Caesar's sportsbook separate from his $4.5 Million Bet on the Bengals in Louisiana this week, So if the Bengals win, he could be collecting a cool $16.2. Million.

Several middle school students were caught on camera chasing, and throwing punches at a Cy-Fair ISD high school coach. "They should be ashamed," one parent said. "They should be in jail."

FOX 26's Coco Dominguez checks out the Juliet, an old-school movie theatre-themed speakeasy in the Houston Galleria.

FOX 26's Coco Dominguez checks out Flight Club in Houston.

Each of us has a family history and roots planted by ancestors who got us where we are, but for African Americans tracking that history can be difficult, if not impossible. So for Black History Month, the Rosenberg Library in Galveston is offering to help.

Amid this ongoing crime wave, we are hearing from a leading bail-bondsman, who says a small, but an unscrupulous group of "bad actors" within his own industry are giving criminal defendants a "deeply discounted" path of jail.

FOX 26 News Edge Anchor Kaitlin Monte checks in with Chief Medical Officer for the City of Houston Dr. David Persse on how the city stands with regard to mask and vaccine mandates.

FOX 26's Coco Dominguez checks out the newest luxury hotel in Houston.

FOX 26's Coco Dominguez checks out Hibachi Bros food truck in Houston's Third Ward.

FOX 26 Reporter Tiffany Justice spoke with Daniel's brother, Darrel, about Daniel's disappearance.

FOX 26 is celebrating Black History Month by highlighting places in Houston, where you can see and support Black Excellence and we hear more from J.O. Malone with BLCK Market, who shares some of the events happening in the city and how you don't have to just support local businesses during February.

Two vehicles were involved in an accident at Grand Parkway and I-10 as temperatures dip below freezing.