- Judge Sim Lake dropped three charges against Jeff Skilling and one against Ken Lay moments after the prosecution rested its case in the trial of the former Enron executives today
- A judge assigned to oversee Carole Keeton Strayhorn's lawsuit challenging Texas' independent candidate rules recused himself from the case because he signed Strayhorn's petition to be placed on the ballot for governor
- The driver of an HISD school bus lost control on the South Loop this afternoon, nearly sending the bus over the roadside guardrail; no students were on board at the time [KHOU video]
- A former A&M health professor was sentenced to 46 months in jail for arranging to meet who he believed was a 13-year-old girl, but was actually an undercover cop, for sex
- The Holmes Smokehouse in Pleak, a landmark for 36 years, burned to the ground today; the cause of the fire isn't yet known
- A woman died this morning when she lost control of her car on the East Freeway and slammed into a retaining wall
- Last night, a blind man saved his elderly blind neighbor from a fire that destroyed her Conroe-area home
- Tom DeLay is fighting to get his concealed handgun license back; the license was suspended because DeLay has been accused of a felony

Missed Connections: Gefilte Fish...and "Chain Connections"


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