NFL team owners have awarded Super Bowl L and LI to the Bay Area and Houston.

In Houston, Super Bowl LI will be played at Reliant Stadium, the home of the Houston Texans, in 2017.

"I can't tell you how excited I am for Houston in being selected as the site for the 2017 Super Bowl," says Houston Texans owner Bob McNair. "This is a worldwide stage that will be constructed in Houston and the world will be watching. It's an opportunity to showcase our wonderful city, the NFL and the Super Bowl all at the same time."

Reliant Stadium last hosted the big game in 2004.  Houston hosted the game once before that, at Rice Stadium in 1974.

Details of Houston's 10-day festival, to be called "Super Bowl El Centro," and other plans, will be revealed Friday.

In the Bay Area, Super Bowl L will be played at the 49ers new stadium due to open in 2014 in Santa Clara, Calif. The Bay Area has hosted the Super Bowl once before, in 1985 when Super Bowl XIX was played in Stanford Stadium.

A Houston teenager is celebrating quite a catch.

Braxton Bielski, 18, now has the distinction of hunting and bagging a 800-pound, 14-foot-2-inch alligator during a public hunt on the James E. Daughtrey Wildlife Management Area.

According to a news release issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Bielski grew up with a fascination of dinosaurs and always wanted to hunt what some call the "living dinosaurs."

"He's wanted to hunt alligators for years," said his father, Troy Bielski, a Houston police officer.

And on his first hunt, he set a new Texas record.

The father-and-son team set up their traps on Choke Canyon.

"We spent a lot of time scouting some of the pastures in the compartment we were assigned, looking for likely spots to set our lines," Troy Bielski said.

The duo saw what they believed to be a very large gator in a cove.

"We didn't pressure it but, while we were putting up our cane poles, we could see it watching us 30 yards away," Braxton Bielski said.

The next morning, they had actually trapped two gators. According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, Troy Bielski's gator turned out to be huge female alligator measuring longer than 10 feet. Braxton Bielski was right next to his father with the 14-footer.

The Houston teenager and his father got just one of 10 alligator permits that were issued for people to hunt for gators in the Daughtrey WMA. They are allowed to hunt for a five-day period.

The hunters issued the permits must also undergo an intensive orientation process.

"We went through a two-hour orientation, and it was very thorough," Braxton Bielski said. "My dad did a lot of research online about alligator hunting, and we asked a lot of questions."

The Bielskis' weren't the only hunters with success during the hunt.

"We only have five, 10 hunters out during these drawn hunts, and most of them are new to alligator hunting, so I try to stay in close touch with them," said Chris Mostyn, Daughtrey WMA area manager. "I tell them to have a strategy in place because they may have to haul a big one out. Turns out we had four gators taken that morning; it was wild. The Bielskis did a good job."

Mix Governor Rick Perry, a Ted Nugent song, a military style rifle and an egg exploding during target practice  together and you get the most talked about introduction video at this week’s National Rifle Association’s meeting in Houston.

The Department of Public Safety has canceled an amber alert two Central Texas teenagers.

Misty Chyann Sloan, 15, and Savannah Meshell Sloan 13, were last seen on Wednesday.

Authorities say they have been found safe. No additional information has been provided.

Police were looking for 33-year-old Keith Taylor Mize, a suspect in the disappearance of the two teens. Mize is 5 foot 11 inches tall and weighs approximately 180 pounds.

Mize was believed to be driving a black 2001 Ford Explorer with Texas license plat BT2-2261. The vehicle was last seen in Kingland on Wednesday.

Gun Barrel City is a town living up to its name.

The Gun Barrel City Council unanimously passed on Tuesday night a nonbinding resolution that urges the town's 5,000-plus residents to buy a firearm if they don't already own one as a way to show support for the Second Amendment.

In a phone interview Tuesday night, Mayor Paul Eaton told NBC 5 that he came up with the idea of drafting the resolution in response to the national debate over stricter gun control laws after the December mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., school.

Other council members supported the resolution, and the measure passed without opposition Tuesday night.

While several Texas sheriff's departments and some municipalities have openly said that any federal gun control legislation would not be enforced in their corners of Texas, this is the first time a city has encouraged residents to arm themselves in opposition to the proposed legislation.