HOUSTON – A woman who set up her family member to be kidnapped and held for ransom has been sentenced to serve 45 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Delia Gualdina Velasquez, 50, was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping Monday by a Montgomery County jury. On Jan. 4,… click here to view the...
MCAS (with funding provided by Petco Love) will be hosting another opportunity for residents of Montgomery County to vaccinate and microchip their pets. This is a drive through process and will be done on a first-come-first-serve basis. In previous clinics the line has gotten long, so please pre-register and be… click here to view the...
As of Aug. 3, nine mosquito samples taken the previous week tested positive for the West Nile virus in Montgomery County Precinct 3, according to a news release from Precinct 3 Commissioner James Noack. Noack said in the release the uptick in positive tests indicates an increased risk of people… click here to view the...
The 2021 volleyball season figures to be very different than 2020 was, and that might its most true at John Cooper. Last season, every Montgomery County team was impacted by coronavirus pandemic restrictions. John Cooper, however, was the only local team that lost its chance at the postseason altogether as the Southwest Preparatory Conference opted...
On Monday, August 2, 2021, in the 9th District Court of Montgomery County, Texas, with Judge Phil Grant presiding, a jury found the defendant, Delia Gualdina Velasquez, 50, guilty of Aggravated Kidnapping. Following her conviction, the jury sentenced the defendant to 45 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. click here to view the...
Montgomery County saw COVID-19 cases spike in children under 12 years old in July with 367 positive tests recorded, over five times the recorded case count for that age group in June, according to data from Montgomery County Public Health. The current total of cases for children under 12 is… click here to view the...
Officials with the Precinct 3 Commissioners Office has confirmed an increase in mosquitoes samples testing positive for the West Nile virus. According to information from Precinct 3, nine samples tested positive last week. This activity in the mosquito population can lead to an increased risk of people contracting the disease,… click here to view the...
As part of the response to COVID-19, school districts in Montgomery County began to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students last school year. This year, the free meals will continue. For some students in food insecure households, the free meals they receive at school are the most reliable… click here to view the...
The Scrapyard Dawgs, a Little League select baseball team, started a campaign to fight hunger. How have they done? FOX 26’s Nate Griffin has the story. click here to view the original article
A Webster woman on Monday was convicted and sentenced to 45 years for her involvement in a 2018 kidnapping meant to extract tens of thousands of dollars but which ended with an FBI agent inadvertently shooting dead the Conroe dad who had been abducted. Following a four-day trial in Montgomery… click here to view the...