- Wildfires in North and West Texas are blamed for four deaths; in Cross Plains, about 50 homes and a church were destroyed
- FEMA will think about Houston's request for the federal agency to help pay overtime for HPD officers overworked by the flood of hurricans evacuees
- The state Court of Criminal Appeals will hear Tom DeLay's request for a speedy trial
- A WWII-era German railcar that may or may not have been used to transport people to concentration camps arrived in town to become part of the Holocaust Museum's collection
- In northwest Houston, uproar over a school anti-drug video that said smoking is "for the young, the poor, the black and the stupid"
- $430,000 worth of baby trees have been planted in the median of 288 near downtown in an attempt to make the freeway more attractive
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