HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — While many people feel a weight lifted getting fully vaccinated for COVID-19, there are still hundreds of thousands in Texas who are overdue for a second dose. Texas Department of State Health Services said, as of April 25, 570,399 Texans who have their first shot are 43 days or more past due for the second. Harris County …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — New numbers obtained by ABC13 show the growing problem of unemployment fraud in Texas. Texas Workforce Commission said during the pandemic, it discovered more than 611,000 suspicious claims, which is a problem that’s causing the state to lose millions of dollars. GROWING PROBLEM In 2019, Texas only had 1,900 fraud claims. During the pandemic, the number …

CONROE, Texas (KTRK) — A family said they came home to find someone had fired a dart into their cat’s skull, hitting him right between the eyes earlier this week. Juan Abugaber and his family first noticed something odd on their home surveillance video. After reviewing the footage, they said they discovered a projectile dangling from Chester’s head. The man …

KATY, Texas (KTRK) — Authorities in Katy are investigating a shooting that took place Thursday evening near an elementary school. Harris County said the shooting happened on Garden Green Trail Road. A view from SkyEye showed the neighborhood is blocked off by crime scene tape and someone was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Two people have been detained …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston Texans head coach David Culley can barely contain his excitement nowadays. “Greg, I don’t know if I need to take some medicine or something to keep me down because I don’t know … I can keep going,” said a smiling Culley when spoke with him on Wednesday. Culley starts early and goes all day as …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As the Houston Texans face the unique challenge of trying to improve a team that went 4-12 last season without the benefit of a first- or second-round pick this year, along with the uncertainty surrounding star quarterback Deshaun Watson, newly-hired head coach David Culley is gearing up for potential change. In an exclusive, Eyewitness News Sports …

The body of a swimmer who had been missing since April 17 was recovered in Lake Travis. According to a release from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, on the afternoon of April 17, authorities responded to a report of a missing swimmer on Lake Travis. The victim, who has since been identified as 31-year-old Jermont Powers of Houston, was last seen …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — J Moreno Lopez said he was walking home from work with his brother when they heard gunshots from a drive-by shooting just five feet away. “I wasn’t really particularly scared because these shootings have been happening too long,” said Moreno Lopez, who lives in Houston’s most crime-ridden block. “We just instinctively knew. We just dropped to …

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office are investigating whether a shooting on the North Freeway may have been sparked by road rage. It happened on Thursday around 1:45 p.m. in the 25000 block of I-45 N in Spring. Deputies said a man was shot while driving on the feeder road near Louetta Road. He …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Flash Flood Watch is in effect from Friday 4 a.m. to Sunday 7 a.m. because heavy thunderstorms could repeatedly move over the same locations and cause flash flooding. As of this morning heavy thunderstorms have fired along a boundary west and north of Houston, and we’ve already seen our first Flash Flood Advisory issued around …