- Cindy Sheehan led a protest in Houston yesterday targeting Barbara Bush, who protesters hoped to convince to tell her son to stop the war in Iraq [video]
- A woman has been arrested for selling drugs at a South Houston bakery; her boyfriend, the bakery's owner, was arrested in 2004 for doing the same thing
- Closing arguments resumed today in the trial of Max Soffar, who spent 25 years on death row but had his conviction overturned when a higher court ruled he had ineffective counsel [video]
- Andrea Yates' attorney doesn't want jurors to see pictures of Yates's kids, who she is accused of having killed in 2001, during her retrial this spring
- Only 3 percent of low-income HISD students signed up for free TAKS tutoring, leading some to wonder if the district advertised the service well enough
- This weekend's cold snap is blamed for six deaths statewide, including an elderly Fort Worth couple who suffocated while using a charcoal grill to heat their house
- The Chron finally catches up with Knitta, the group of Montrose women tagging the city with knit graffiti
- The Guardian Angels will hold a meet-and-greet tonight for potential recruits in the Houston area; training sessions are set for later this week
- 52 percent of Texans said they would pay more taxes if the money went directly to schools, a new poll finds
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