- Hospital Partners of America, a North Carolina-based company, will buy the 119-year-old St. Joseph Hospital downtown; HPA said it'll expand the hospital's operations
- State Sen. Mario Gallegos said today he's checked himself into an alcohol recovery program
- Andrea Yates did not accept a plea offer under which she would receive a 35-year sentence for drowning her five children in 2001
- Forty-one percent of Katrina evacuees in the third grade and 53 percent of fifth-grade evacuees failed Texas reading tests last month, but overall failure rates were down
- Wachovia is taking steps to make sure no more of its customers' personal information ends up in a Dumpster
- In the male-dominated world of the Rodeo, female barrel racers hold their own
- Officials think sunlight reflecting off a mirror may have caused a fire that destroyed a playground in southwest Houston yesterday
- A pickup truck crashed into First Baptist Church's sign overnight, demolishing part of the brick structure
- A new $153 million Galveston causeway will open Sunday morning, replacing the one that's been in use since the 1930s
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