Texas employers added 95,800 nonfarm jobs in September — the strongest month for hiring since March — prompting economists to predict a full pandemic job recovery for the state within months. The job additions also drove down the state’s unemployment rate to 5.6% from 5.9% a month earlier, according to data released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission. Nationally, 27 …

DICKINSON, Texas (KTRK) — A lot of people are looking forward to Halloween, but the holiday marks a painful anniversary for a family in Dickinson. It’s been 15 years since someone raped and murdered Terressa Vanegas. The unsolved case, they say, is keeping them from closure. Jeanette Vanegas is Terressa’s mother. “I would like to get some answers,” she said. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Wondering how fans are enjoying the ballpark since the Houston Astros came back in full swing? This year alone, Astros fans have bought a total of $12.8 million worth of beer, wine and liquor at Minute Maid Park. As the team hopes for a win in Friday’s ALCS Game 6, local governments are already winning. This …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The pandemic has brought to light the mental health issues many Americans have been suffering from for years. Programs have been implemented to help those who feel they are struggling and some say it’s needed now more than ever. That’s why a new Houston-based service decided to start offering low cost or free help to the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Backlogs at ports, empty shelves at stores, and do we really need to bring up the great toilet paper shortage of 2020? Whether your realize it or not, we’ve all felt the effects of a disrupted supply chain. And some, like Demetrious Price, are hoping to get a job out of it. “The offers and the bonuses that …

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KTRK) — A Cleveland, Texas, man was indicted Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Darrell Youngers, 32, is charged with four misdemeanor offenses related to the breach that disrupted a joint session of U.S. Congress as it counted electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election, federal authorities said Friday in a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — An internship has turned into a wild ride for the luckiest Astros fan inside Minute Maid Park. Above the outfield is a view that many Astros fans would pay a lot of money to enjoy. However, only one fan gets to see the action from this perspective for each game. The fan is Bobby Vasquez, also …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man accused of killing his elderly mother and dismembering her body at her northwest Harris County home told relatives and deputies that he dropped her off at the airport in an attempt to hide her murder, court documents revealed. Authorities said Robert Barnes, 36, greeted his aunt with a rifle and told her to go away when …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The angels in the outfield returned to Minute Maid Park Friday after being a playoff hit and rallying the Astros to a win earlier in the American League Championship Series. Last week, the Dominican Sisters of Mary Magdalene Province attended Game 1 of the ALCS. Astros fans went wild when they saw sisters waving towels on …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Another warm and muggy morning with patchy dense fog across Southeast Texas. There’s no Dense Fog Advisory, but we are seeing some locations outside of the Houston Metro with visibility at 1/4 mile, so be cautious if you plan on being out on the roads early. As we go through the day we’ll keep our “sticky” …