- Christopher McKinney, a former state trooper, was sentenced to two years in prison today for stealing $4,900 from a motorist he stopped in 2004
- Police have arrested 24-year-old Matthew White in connection with a series of arsons in the Kingwood area
- Dan Duncan, energy magnate and the city's wealthiest man, is giving the Baylor College of Medicine $100 million to help develop a comprehensive cancer center
- Police say a love triangle may have been behind the shooting of a hotel clerk in northwest Houston early this morning
- Thieves stole some artifacts found during construction of the Harris County Criminal Justice Center from the building's lobby over the weekend
- Authorities found 1,500 pounds of marijuana in a man's car in Fort Bend County; the drugs have a street value of $750,000
- Jaime Elizalde Jr., convicted of shooting two men outside a Houston cantina 11 years ago, is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville tonight

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Regarding the pot bust in Ft. Bend. If the article is correct, with 1,500 pounds being worth $750,000, then everyone I know who smokes is getting robbed! Pot hasn't sold for $31.25 an ounce in a long, long, long time. I would calculate this bust having a street value of $1.8 million.