{"id":205357,"date":"2026-03-15T04:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205357\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:36:13","slug":"people-running-at-rodeo-carnival-prompts-closure-hours-early-houston-livestock-show-rodeo-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/205357\/","title":{"rendered":"People running at Rodeo carnival prompts closure hours early, Houston Livestock Show &#038; Rodeo officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo closed its carnival hours early on Saturday after officials said a group of people began running in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to HLSR officials, a group of individuals began running in the rodeo&#8217;s carnival area, which prompted others nearby to begin running as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said law enforcement responded quickly. Officials added that they are not aware of any injuries at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Out of an abundance of caution, HLSR officials said, the carnival closed early at about 10 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The safety of our guests remains the top priority for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo,&#8221; a representative from RodeoHouston said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This is a developing story. Eyewitness News is continuing to gather facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch live breaking news coverage from ABC13 on our 24\/7 streaming news channel.<\/p>\n<p>Submit a tip or story idea to ABC13<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story you think we should cover? Send it to ABC13 using the form below. If you have a video or photo to send, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">terms of use apply.<\/a> If you don&#8217;t, just hit &#8216;skip upload&#8217; and send the details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo closed its carnival hours early on Saturday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[80800,9906,254,56,58,57,9907],"class_list":["post-205357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-80800","tag-abc13-live-stream","tag-breaking-news","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-streaming-updates-from-houston-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}