- Robert Pambello, principal of Reagan High School, was disciplined today for flying the Mexican flag on the school campus Wednesday
- A man who stopped to help people whose van was broken down in Fort Bend County ended up having his car stolen by the people he had stopped to assist
- The Houston plastic surgeon on trial for a hit-and-run that severely injured two women in the Galleria area last year drew the attention of a police officer who noticed his erratic driving shortly after the accident
- In southeast Houston, a 2-year-old girl fell out a second-story window but landed on a trash can and suffered only a minor cut
- A jury convicted Wendell Mitchell of attempted capital murder for shooting a Houston police officer in the face last year; Mitchell said he was only trying to scare the officer
- There's a shortage of housing for the poorest hurricane evacuees in Houston, a state study has found
- A driver was fished out of Galveston Bay this morning after he apparently drove his car off Highway 646 and into the water
- Crisis counselors were on hand today at West Brook High School in Beaumont; two members of the school's girls' soccer team died yesterday when the team's bus crashed on Highway 90 en route to Humble
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